ANC Clings to Failed Elite-enrichment BEE Model

Many African National Congress (ANC) leaders insist on continuing with the current flawed black economic empowerment (BEE) model, because they see BEE as a panacea for ANC state and policy failures caused by cadre-deployee state incompetence, corruption, ideological policies and elite-enrichment. Changing the course on BEE appears too politically costly for the ANC since it will cause more rebellions in the already deeply divided party if it ended cadre deployee state incompetence by introducing merit into the state, seriously fighting state corruption by taking on corrupt ANC cadres, and ending ideological and populist policies for evidence-based, fact-based and pragmatic policies.