{"id":734190,"date":"2022-09-05T12:29:23","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T16:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=734190"},"modified":"2022-09-05T12:29:23","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T16:29:23","slug":"only-south-africas-elite-benefits-from-black-economic-empowerment-and-covid-19-proved-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=734190","title":{"rendered":"Only South Africa&#039;s elite benefits from black economic empowerment\u2014and COVID-19 proved it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than two decades ago the South African government put in place a policy designed to redress racial imbalances in the country&#8217;s economy. But, as I suggest in a recent paper,  the policy\u2014known as broad-based black economic empowerment)\u2014has been hijacked and repurposed by individuals and factions within the ruling African National Congress (ANC) for the purpose of corruption and self-enrichment.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-09-south-africa-elite-benefits-black.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Only South Africa&#8217;s elite benefits from black economic empowerment\u2014and COVID-19 proved it<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than two decades ago the South African government put in place a policy designed to redress racial imbalances in the country&#8217;s economy. But, as I suggest in a recent&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-734190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=734190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=734190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=734190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=734190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}