The Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE). How to deal as a foreign investor (PDF)

Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 1,7, University of Applied Sciences Ludwigshafen, language: English, abstract: In this paper, the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE) will be discussed in order to make a recommendation for an investor whether to invest or not. First, the history including definitions, strategy and objectives will be described. Then, the meaning and importance of BBBEE Codes of Good Practise will be explained. The main part of this paper will focus on the theoretical explanation of the programme and how the main criteria should be implemented in case of investment. In the end, there will be a short recommendation and a trend for the future.

South Africa is a country with potential and future. Indicating facts and reasons therefore are major sales market, the well-developed financial sector and infrastructure as well as the highest development level on the African continent. However, dealing with the South African economy more closely, you will identify several obstacles. The latest issue increasing in importance more and more investors faces with is the so-called BBBEE. It is a programme of the South African government to support and accelerate the participation of black people in the economy.

The Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment concept was created by the government based on South Africans history .
In the past, the country has suffered many years from the apartheid where the black society were without rights and complete neglected from the economy. When in 1994 South Africa selected their first democracy's and political systems were about to change, the new government came up with the program Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment to eliminate past irregularities between the black racial group and the with racial group and to accelerate the access to the economy for black people by putting rules and laws for every company in south Africa.