I lived in South Africa and I wrote my thesis specifically on post-apartheid race politics. There is an added problem here, which is the extent of corruption i

I lived in South Africa and I wrote my thesis specifically on post-apartheid race politics. There is an added problem here, which is the extent of corruption in so-called Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) programs. The contractor here is a black-owned business, which is all well and good, but such companies are often a front for thinly veiled corruption where connected "entrepreneurs" can bleed taxpayers of millions of rand in the name of social progress. Unfortunately, whereas BEE has created some wealthy black businessmen, it has done almost nothing to solve abject poverty among blacks in South Africa, and the program has been captured to an absurd degree. It also can't be criticized, and any challenge to it is denounced as racist. See the last line of this article: "Ntsele told the newspaper opposition parties had an agenda against black businessmen and that the website’s cost was fair."