PREFACE
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t is with a great sense of pride and optimism that I welcome you to the inaugural edition of TransformSA magazine. This comes at a time when we bear witness to immense challenges within the transformation space, charactirised by uncertainty yet offering numerous growth opportunities. It has been said that at times opportunity often comes disguised as an obstacle or as hard work. It is hardly surprising when one notes that some of the world’s greatest achievements were accomplished by people who endured seemingly insurmountable impediments on the road to great achievements. Likewise this is the same path that the transformation journey must travel on its way to becoming a success. For we know all too well the various criticisms that have been levelled at transformation; from the alleged failure of BB-BEE, to the ineffectiveness of EE legislation right up to the skepticism that the BB-BEE Act and its attendant Codes of Good Practice have been viewed with. It is these issues that TransformSA must seek to analyse and highlight in order to create debate that will hopefully lead to an egalitarian society. This has to be through engaging articles that seek to critically analyse our transformation endeavours, with writers and analysts who are well versed with the intricacies of the transformation agenda along with forums for readers to formulate their own views of the transformation project as they see it. Amongst others, the purpose will be to completely dissect transformation in various BBBEE transactions in an effort to evaluate how truly empowering are they. It is my wish to see TransformSA thrive for it is when we constructively engage on platforms such as this that we can have any hope of driving transformation in our society. Happy reading!
– B. Peter Vundla
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