An evaluation of race based income discrimination in post apartheid South Africa

dc.contributor.advisorCollier, Debbie
dc.contributor.authorKhewana, Xolile
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-18T09:51:44Z
dc.date.available2022-02-18T09:51:44Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.date.updated2022-02-16T13:40:26Z
dc.description.abstractThe South African labour market has been characterised by income inequality, which emanates from past discrimination legacies. The wage gap between white workers and blacks have been marginally high. The same goes for the wage gap between males and females who find themselves performing equal value work in most cases. White workers continue to occupy high-level positions in an organisation with higher salaries disproportionately to black workers who generally occupy lower-level positions and with low-income earnings. The dawn of democracy brought a new government that has passed legislation and regulations aimed at reversing the ills of the past and achieving labour reforms and workplace equality. This paper evaluates progress as a result of such legislation and government policy provisions, particularly the Employment Equity Act. The study considers the provisions of section 6(4) of the EEA, which is aimed at race and gender pay income inequality, and the effects of section 27 of the EEA, which attempts to address disproportionate income differentials, by analysing data, and other observations and inputs from various sources. Based on the research and data, the findings point to the continued existence of wage differentials between races in South Africa. The conclusion is that the government's legislative intervention in the labour market through the Employment Equity Act has had a marginal economic impact on employees' wages and labour market transformation in the post-apartheid period. It is recommended that there is a need for a finetuned strategic approach to address both vertical and horizontal wage gap, further to this, the recommendations made by legislated bodies such as the Committee on Employment Equity need to be considered and implemented to achieve the goals as set up in the National Development Plan.
dc.identifier.apacitationKhewana, X. (2021). <i>An evaluation of race based income discrimination in post apartheid South Africa</i>. (). ,Faculty of Law ,Department of Commercial Law. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/35758en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationKhewana, Xolile. <i>"An evaluation of race based income discrimination in post apartheid South Africa."</i> ., ,Faculty of Law ,Department of Commercial Law, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/35758en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationKhewana, X. 2021. An evaluation of race based income discrimination in post apartheid South Africa. . ,Faculty of Law ,Department of Commercial Law. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/35758en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Master Thesis AU - Khewana, Xolile AB - The South African labour market has been characterised by income inequality, which emanates from past discrimination legacies. The wage gap between white workers and blacks have been marginally high. The same goes for the wage gap between males and females who find themselves performing equal value work in most cases. White workers continue to occupy high-level positions in an organisation with higher salaries disproportionately to black workers who generally occupy lower-level positions and with low-income earnings. The dawn of democracy brought a new government that has passed legislation and regulations aimed at reversing the ills of the past and achieving labour reforms and workplace equality. This paper evaluates progress as a result of such legislation and government policy provisions, particularly the Employment Equity Act. The study considers the provisions of section 6(4) of the EEA, which is aimed at race and gender pay income inequality, and the effects of section 27 of the EEA, which attempts to address disproportionate income differentials, by analysing data, and other observations and inputs from various sources. Based on the research and data, the findings point to the continued existence of wage differentials between races in South Africa. The conclusion is that the government's legislative intervention in the labour market through the Employment Equity Act has had a marginal economic impact on employees' wages and labour market transformation in the post-apartheid period. It is recommended that there is a need for a finetuned strategic approach to address both vertical and horizontal wage gap, further to this, the recommendations made by legislated bodies such as the Committee on Employment Equity need to be considered and implemented to achieve the goals as set up in the National Development Plan. DA - 2021_ DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - Labour Law LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PY - 2021 T1 - An evaluation of race based income discrimination in post apartheid South Africa TI - An evaluation of race based income discrimination in post apartheid South Africa UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/35758 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/35758
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationKhewana X. An evaluation of race based income discrimination in post apartheid South Africa. []. ,Faculty of Law ,Department of Commercial Law, 2021 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/35758en_ZA
dc.language.rfc3066eng
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Commercial Law
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Law
dc.subjectLabour Law
dc.titleAn evaluation of race based income discrimination in post apartheid South Africa
dc.typeMaster Thesis
dc.type.qualificationlevelMasters
dc.type.qualificationlevelMPhil
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