KWAZULU-NATAL BROAD-BASED BLACK ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT STRATEGY KEY STRATEGIES

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KWAZULU-NATAL BROAD-BASEDBLACK ECONOMIC
EMPOWERMENT STRATEGYKEY STRATEGIES
PROGRAMMESBEE IMPLEMENTATION TEAM12
SEPTEMBER 2008 by Amanda Mhlongo
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

• Background
• Vision
• Goals
• Sub-strategies
• Cornerstones of strategy
• Implementation programmes
• Progress per programme
• Implementation structures

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BACKGROUND

• Required by National Strategy Framework with the
  B-BBEE Act as an enabling instrument.
• Closely aligned to all Economic Empowerment
  related National Framework.
• However addresses Provincial specificities and
  supports provincial economic development
  strategies.
• Necessary for addressing KZN socio-economic
  challenges .

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VISION

• A de-racialized provincial economy in whose
• mainstream a critical mass of Black people
• participate meaningfully, in terms of control and
  
• ownership of private sector enterprises, and hold
• operational, professional, management, and
• executive positions in organizations of both the
• private and public sectors, in proportion to
  their
• demographic weight.

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GOALS

• Goal 1
• Substantial increase in the number of Black
  people who have ownership and control of existing
  and new enterprises, particularly in the
  provincial governments priority sectors.
  Sub-strategy 1 Sector Matrix Enterprise
  Development
• Sub-strategy 3 Preferential Procurement
• Goal 2
• Significant increase in the number of new Black
  enterprises, and Black-engendered enterprises.
• Sub- strategy 1 Sector Matrix Enterprise
  Development
• Goal 3
• Significant increase in the number of Black
  people who hold senior management and executive
  positions in enterprises.
• Sub- strategy 5 Enforcement of the Employment
  Equity Act

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GOALS

• Goal 4
• Significant increase in the ownership and
  management of economic activities vested in
  broad-based associations, collective enterprises
  such as cooperatives, trade unions, and employee
  trusts.
• Sub-strategy 4 Empowerment of target groups to
  own assets
• Sub-strategy 1 Sector Matrix Enterprise
  Development
• Goal 5
• Significant increase in the number of Black young
  people, particularly rural young people, who
  acquire skills.
• Sub-strategy 2 Skills development
• Sub- strategy 6 Corporate Social Investment

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GOALS

• Goal 6
• Significant increase in the number of Black
  people who own land and other productive assets.
• Sub-strategy 4 Empowerment of Persons on
  productive assets

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A SIX-POINT STRATEGY

• Sub-strategy 1
• Provision of enterprise development support with
  sector matrix
• Sub-strategy 2
• Skills development, mainly for the unemployed
  youth
• Sub-strategy 3
• Empowerment of target group enterprises
  (including Black-women and youth-owned
  enterprises) through preferential procurement

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A SIX-POINT STRATEGY Continued

• Sub-strategy 4
• Empowerment of persons or groups or communities
  to increase their ownership and control of
  enterprises and other productive assets such as
  land
• Sub-strategy 5
• Enforcement of the Employment Equity Act
• Sub-strategy 6
• Encouragement of well established firms to
  engage in corporate social investment,
  particularly in the areas of socio-economic
  development and youth learnership and
  apprenticeship.

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STRATEGY-GOAL ASSIGNMENT

• Sub-strategy 1 ? Goals 1, 2, and 4
• Sub-strategy 2 ? Goal 5
• Sub-strategy 3 ? Goals 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5
• Sub-strategy 4 ? Goals 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6
• Sub-strategy 5 ? Goals 3
• Sub-strategy 6 ? Goal 5

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CORNERSTONES OF THE STRATEGY

• Sector Matrix enterprise development
  workstream Sub-strategy 1
• Skills development workstream Sub-strategy 2
• Preferential procurement workstream Sub-strategy
  3
• Financing workstream

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IMPLEMENTATION PROGRAMMES

• Sector matrix enterprise development
  Sub-strategy 1
• Skills development for the unemployed Sub-strat.
  2
• Preferential procurement Sub-strategy 3
• Financing Provincial Empowerment Fund
• Information dissemination, call centre, and
  outreach
• Partnership and stakeholder relations
• BEE monitoring and evaluation

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PROGRESS TO DATE ON ALL SEVEN BEE WORKSTREAMS
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SECTOR MATRIX ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT

• Clothing Textile Women cut trim Youth
  designers
• Poultry Contract grower
• Afro Hair Beauty Product Manufacturing
• Property Sector Incubation Programme
• Tourism Transformation Charter KZN Implementation

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SKILLS DEVELOPMENT

• Technical Skills Training programme
• Employment Readiness Placement
• Establishment of Skills Development Fund
• FINANCING
• Establishment of Provincial Empowerment Fund

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INFORMATION DISSEMINATION

• INFORMATION PACKAGING
• Call centre
• Outreach
• Electronic Media
• Websites
• Events

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PREFERENTIAL PROCUREMENT

• Analysis of KZN Provincial BEE spend
• Alignment of Processes Systems
• BEE MONITORING EVALUATION
• Current BEE Status in Private Sector
• Current BEE Status in Government Depart

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PARTNERSHIP STAKERHOLDER RELATIONS

• BEE Complaints Handling established
• BEE Ombuds office establishment in progress
• BEE Advisory Council establishment in progress
• BEE Implementation Team establishment in progress
• BEE Forums support

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IMPLEMENTATION STRUCTURE

• BEE Advisory Council
• Consists of 19 members from all sectors of
  society
• BEE Ombuds office
• Provincial BEE implementation team
• Four work-streams/programmes
• Sector Matrix Enterprise development
• Skills development
• Preferential procurement
• BEE Finance
• BEE Monitoring Evaluation Team

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• THANK YOU!