Overview
- The Democratic Alliance launched its Economic Inclusion for All Bill, positioned as a needs-based alternative to Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment.
- The plan introduces a procurement scorecard weighted 80% for value for money and 20% for economic inclusion, with disqualification for proven fraud, corruption or misrepresentation.
- The Bill seeks to amend the Public Procurement Amendment Act of 2024, repeal race-based preferential provisions, and wind down the BEE Commission within 12 months.
- The ANC, Cosatu and the IFP publicly rejected scrapping BEE, and President Cyril Ramaphosa said existing BEE policy is constitutionally grounded and any changes must proceed through Parliament.
- The DA also pursues a legal route, with confirmation that the Constitutional Court has received its procurement challenge and that responses are due by 27 November.