The Women’s Development Bank, a women-led black empowerment group focused mainly on lifting rural women out of poverty, recently celebrated its 25th anniversary.
Much has changed in the BEE landscape since WDB was founded, and corporate interest in BEE deals has been waning, particularly since the global financial crisis in 2008/09 which left a number of transactions going under water.
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