White Business Barred From State Tenders. Here is What It Means.

Dear employer

Government wants race, and only race, to decide who does business with the State.

National Treasury’s draft Public Procurement Regulations would set aside State contracts below R20 million for companies that are 100 percent owned by previously disadvantaged persons. In other words, black people.

White male-owned businesses, even partly white male-owned businesses, are completely excluded.

A company that is 90 percent black-owned does not qualify. A firm that has followed every BEE code for two decades does not qualify.

This is not redress. It is economic exclusion. It shrinks the supplier base, drives up prices, and hollows out service delivery. The taxpayer pays for all of it.

Our courts have already ruled that Government cannot disqualify a tender purely on race. These regulations do exactly that.

In the enclosed video, Gerhard Papenfus, Chief Executive of NEASA, breaks down what these regulations say, what they will cost employers and taxpayers, and why NEASA has rejected them outright.

If you do business with the State, or supply anyone who does, this affects you.

For more information
NEASA Media Department
media@neasa.co.za