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Who occupies SA's top positions?

Boksburg - Whites still dominate South Africa's top management positions, an Employment Equity Commission report revealed on Thursday.

The 13th edition of the report shows whites constituted 72.6% of top management positions in the country last year, down from 81.5% in 2002.

The report reflects the public and private sectors.
  • Blacks occupied 12.3% of top management positions in 2012, compared to 10% in 2002.
  • Coloureds occupied 4.6% of top management positions in 2012, compared to 3.4% in 2002; and
  • Indians 7.3%, from 5%.
The number of foreigners in top management positions in 2012 was 3.1%, compared to zero in 2002. However, this was because the labour department started collecting this data only in 2006.

Commission chairperson Dr Loyiso Mzisi Mbabane handed the report to Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant during a Transformation Indaba in Boksburg.

Mbabane expressed disappointment at the levels of transformation.

"It is unacceptable. This is not what you would expect, especially because we have a law," he said.

"If we did not have a law like the Employment Equity Act of 1998, you could say people are trying their luck and they are not understanding it, but you have a law that says specifically you must have a [employment equity] plan."

The government had expected companies to be planning to have put into effect their employment equity plans by 2000.

"The 2% increase in black people occupying top management positions says that either we don’t take those [employment equity] plans seriously, or we never took the act seriously. It is not acceptable," said Mbabane.

The report was compiled by the Employment Equity Commission using millions of employment equity reports from the public sector and private companies across all sectors of the South African economy.

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