S. Africa Pushes Economic Empowerment Program

Having won this year's election with more than 60 percent of the vote, South Africa's ruling ANC party -- in power for 20 years now -- is under renewed pressure to help the country's poor black majority.  Thuso Khumalo, director of South Africa's Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE) program, as well as experts, have differing opinions on whether this program can ease inequality in South Africa. From 1948 to 1994 South Africa went through apartheid, a brutal...

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