Selection by merit will end racial quotas division

IN THAT racial quotas and BEE are not regarded as justiciable, is a sad commentary on the extent to which narratives have strayed from and contradict the Constitution.

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Nowhere in the Constitution is there any reference to racial quotas. Section 1(b) of Chapter 1 states unambiguously that “non-racialism is a founding value.” Section 9(3) outlaws discrimination on the basis of race, gender disability, religion. The Preamble exhorts the building of a “united” country. Yet the contradictions of those precepts are glaringly obvious in the existence of 142 legal and regulatory references to race on how we are governed. They and BEE make a mockery of the Constitution’s commitment to non-racialism.