The race to win

Economy

Last week Adriaan Vlok, a former Police Minister, was given a ten-year suspended sentence for conspiracy to kill; that was one piece of unfinished business from the apartheid era. On the other side of the ledger are calls from across the political spectrum to revise programmes of positive racial discrimination, such as affirmative action and black economic empowerment (BEE).

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