I like the skills angle and yes in my experience and opinion that is the real problem. Business still needs to do the job they get paid to do. No point in enforcing black quotas when the job isn't getting done. I can get 10 black managers now but for my company they don't mean all that much. They can't really do anything except maybe if they are politically connected but those seems to be fleeting at best. So why employ a quota worker when I can source work to overseas companies and workers and bring the product back at a profit? Enforce your stick. It will mean more work for me. This here new South Africa can't do anything without consultants and contractors. One day the black taxpayers will wake up and realize they are paying 10x more then they should be paying and the government will tel then if was the mandate they gave to the government. Oh and another thing I have observed, government tends to chase away skills while promoting and rewarding inefficiency and incompetence.