Highly unequal. Like so many things in South Africa: income, opportunity, schooling, health, policing, land ownership... ect. While you can label BEE all you like the simple fact is that the constitution allows this prejudice to correct the system, to make it more equal, and it is indeed an irony but perhaps predictable that it takes this guise. It is however a prejudice that many argue is absolutely necessary and so far has been conducted by governmental discretion.

Attacks on this mechanism that claim it is based on race and hence wrong fail because that is not the premise; there was literal harm done to millions of South Africans that irrespective of their skin colour needs to be redressed.  The fact that they were black, has made it easier to regulate, but in essence is not necessary.  Rationality and cost effectiveness are still requirements though. 

 While I strongly believe that race is a fiction with no basis in reality, racism was/is unfortunately very much a reality.