184pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2023
Chris Bishop on the successes and failures of black economic empowerment, or BEE, the legislation-backed effort to transfer wealth to black people and to facilitate their broader participation in the economy to redress the inequalities created by apartheid.
Journalist Chris Bishop is the founding editor of Forbes Africa and Billionaire Tomorrow, a former head of programming at CNBC Africa and a former senior executive producer at SABC News. He won the 2021 Sanlam Award for Excellence in Financial Journalism and the 2013 PICA Special Editor of the Year Award. He is the author of Africa's Billionaires.