Black Empowerment
At the same time they embarked on the Reconstruction and Development Plan to improve services including housing, education and health to blacks for whom these services had seriously lagged behind in the apartheid years.
The ANC also initiated a system of “black empowerment” that favoured black employment and required the transfer of some of the white owned businesses including mining companies to black ownership.
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