The ANC government has introduced a National Water Amendment Bill that introduces racial criteria in the allocation of water use rights.
In South Africa, a successful Black emerging farmer wanted to share/transfer his surplus irrigation water rights to his White neighbor (a commercial farmer and his mentor).
The Department of Water and Sanitation denied it purely on race. Their license forbids transferring water from a “previously disadvantaged” (Black) holder to a non-disadvantaged (White) one to protect “transformation targets.”
The National Water Amendment Bill [B1–2026] was tabled on 21 January to amend the National Water Act of 1998. The bill also makes provision for race-based preferences and restrictions in water licensing.
So let's put BEE into perspective:
- Approximately 1.5 mil economically active whites in SA ( majority who were born near or after 1994 when apartheid ended) ) must pay reparation to 62 mil. blacks.
- This after 32 years of majority rule during which time trillions of rands worth of of taxpayers money was stolen as well as state resources looted ,plundered and wasted by the majority rule regime
- During the period under majority rule the government through their hare brained( ideologically based) policies brought economic growth to stagnation.