Africa: S. Africa Pushes Economic Empowerment Program

Johannesburg — Having won this year's election with more than 60 percent of the vote, South Africa's ruling ANC party -- in power for 20 years now -- is under renewed pressure to help the country's poor black majority. Thuso Khumalo, director of South Africa's Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE) program, as well as experts, have differing opinions on whether this program can ease inequality in South Africa.

From 1948 to 1994 South Africa went through apartheid, a brutal segregation system imposed by the country's white minority. Under the system, black Africans and other non-whites were forced off their land and driven into bantustans, areas where they were totally disconnected from the country's economy.

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