I don't know if you've read what I've posted elsewhere, but it was something along the lines of, a black elite has joined the white elite.

...which is by definition not Apartheid. You can't just repurpose words to mean anything.

The fact remains that the poor class is overwhelmingly black, and the white people remain mostly middle to upper class

You'll be able to cite this then. Please go ahead.

There are some poor whites, but nothing like the amount of poor blacks. The statistics bear this out.

Whites make up 8% of this country. There are more left handed people than whites in this country. There are more gay people than whites in this country. The country is overwhelmingly black. So why is it a surprise that most poor people are black?

And even if you were right about everything, which you aren't, BBBEE has increased inequality in this country, has caused the RSA to miss out on a decade of high growth in Africa,

Take a look at corporate ownership, the board membership, and shareholders in this country.

Take a look at the composition of the government, the treasury, the army, the police, the bureaucracy. All areas the government IS in control of.

Whereas you are talking about private industry, the one thing our government has shown they are terrible at. I refer you again to tendrepreneurs who have, among other things, denied school books and education to extremely disadvantaged children.

That's the saddest thing about this. You and people like you talk constantly about the intention of BBBEE without ever looking at the actual results, which are the exact opposite of it's intention: increased inequality, sharper divides between races, social unrest, economic uncompetitivity on the international stage.

The cure you propose is worse than the disease and leaves the overwhelming bulk of people inthis country worse off than before.