proposed race-based requirements
Pick n Pay (PnP) chairperson Gareth Ackerman recently lambasted the government’s legislative changes to the Employment Equity Amendment Act, which he said threatened private employers if they failed to employ a workforce mirroring the country’s racial demographics.
Speaking at the group’s annual general meeting last week, Ackerman said: “It’s been hard to stay positive about the future of SA for a long time now”.
He said the act
