Sadly I can only endorse what Carsten notes. Saddest of all is that it has to be a race issue but that is what you get when you are part of, or go along with an unprincipaled and immoral system - the a preference  based on skin colour. Apartheid was just as immoral and one would think the new SA would have learnt from that. My whine; we also tender for work but have to give at least 10% or 20% advantage to "black" companies as well as deal with the widespread corruption and incompetence in state entities, and of the whole system including the rating of companies BEE status. "Private" developments are also hungry for BEE points and often have a preference for "black" companies.

But we have an ironic chuckle and try and rationalise the whole rotten system as the cost of doing business in SA, just as I imagine we might rationalise having to pay bribes in say, Zimbabwe or Nigeria. It is all legalised corruption. Rather focus on honesty and equality than skin colour.