Anthea JefferyDuma Gqubule starts his defence of BEE by claiming that the policy is necessary to “deracialise the economy completely”. Yet BEE has kept SA thoroughly “racialised” via the pervasive race classification, race quotas and race discrimination it demands. This is because BEE helps a black elite rather than the disadvantaged, and increases inequality instead of reducing it. Gqubule also implies that BEE corruption is an occasional glitch to be dealt with by better policing. The poor black majority gets no redress from this either.