DA’s push to scrap BBBEE excluded from ANC NEC agenda

ANC top leadership at the ordinary sitting of the NEC in Germiston on the East Rand on August 1, 2025.

The Democratic Alliance’s (DA) call to replace the Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE) has not made it onto the agenda at the three day African National Congress (ANC) National Executive Council (NEC) in Germiston, East of Johannesburg. That is according to the African National Congress (ANC) Head of Economic Transformation Committee Zuko Godlimpi.

[WATCH] #ANCNEC Economic Transformation Committee (ETC) Chair, Comrade Zuko Godlimpi in response to the DA’s inclusivity policy.

“The DA’s entire objection against BEE is based on false information.”

📍On the sidelines of DAY 2 of the ordinary #ANCNEC meeting. pic.twitter.com/FWTymcErnF

— ANC – African National Congress (@MYANC) November 15, 2025

Earlier this month, the DA launched what it calls the Economic Inclusion Bill for All to replace the ANC backed BBBEE. The DA says BBBEE has failed to uplift South Africa’s unemployed and impoverished majority. But Godlimpi says they remain committed to BEE as an intervention to make South Africa work for all.

“The ANC has not met the DA about whatever they claim is their alternative bill. We have not met them about that and we have no intention of meeting them about it because thats their own thing it has nothing to do with us. We remain committed to BEE as an unavoidable part of how to make SA work for all of us. If there are efficacy problems with particular instruments of implementing policies, we will improve them as we go along. But BEE as a strategic programme remains intact, it is not going anywhere and the NEC is not going to sit and discuss DA views.”

The ANC firmly rejects the DA’s Anti-Transformation Bill, which seeks to undermine the hard-won progress made in advancing Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment and redressing the injustices of apartheid.

The ANC remains resolute in its commitment to economic transformation,… pic.twitter.com/P7LJAyCezw

— ANC – African National Congress (@MYANC) October 28, 2025