Corruption in BEE is too often treated as a bug. It is more accurately a predictable outcome of a system that rewards actors for exploiting its incentives.
When the "incentive" is based on racial identity it is (simply put) a racist ideology. When that racist ideology goes further to demand that "every lever of power be in the hands of the ruling party's comrades" it becomes both criminal and racist. Merit, experience education and training are all subjugated to race and/or party membership. The commonwealth is ignored and collapse of governance in ALL its forms collapses. We have seen this scenario play itself out many times historically and appear not to learn from these examples of state failure.
When the "incentive" is based on racial identity it is (simply put) a racist ideology. When that racist ideology goes further to demand that "every lever of power be in the hands of the ruling party's comrades" it becomes both criminal and racist. Merit, experience education and training are all subjugated to race and/or party membership. The commonwealth is ignored and collapse of governance in ALL its forms collapses. We have seen this scenario play itself out many times historically and appear not to learn from these examples of state failure.
This was not the central point of my article, but I guess you have a fair point.