Overcoming the Penrose Stairs of history: the legislated treatment of the 'designated groups' within a hierarchy of discrimination approach

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dc.contributor.advisorCollier, Debbieen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorSusan, Brett Andreen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-02T08:50:51Z
dc.date.available2016-06-02T08:50:51Z
dc.date.issued2015en_ZA
dc.description.abstractA Penrose Staircase- an impossible object always ending ascending yet constantly descending and ending as an illusion. This is Employment Equity legislation in South Africa with its purported aim of redressing the disadvantages of its designated groups. It is legislation that aims to promote equal opportunity, fair treatment and eliminate unfair discrimination yet cannot unshackle itself from the very types of racial identifiers that it wishes to have eliminated. This paper is an attempt to give greater content and context to the purpose of Employment Equity than the few sentences provided in the preamble of the Act. In particular, I have focused on the Act's own racial differentiator - 'Blacks' - as a seemingly convenient catch-all rubric which is drenched with the very abhorrent salience of race and thickening of racial classifications which it wishes to escape from. 'Blacks', as Africans, Indians and Coloureds, as I will conclude, have intertwined yet different experiences of apartheid and their emergence from Apartheid and projected future can be so vastly contrasted that Employment Equity measures based on its current simplified Verwoerd an racial descriptors will perpetuate inequality and racial disunity. This paper is a study some of the more than three hundred years of policies, practices, laws and the might of the sophisticated government machinery which aimed at placing Whites at the apex of control over the country's resources and contrast how each of the designated groups have (1) experienced legislated discrimination aimed against them; (2) as a snapshot of 1994, how they have emerged from this history and(3) the predicted trajectory that each group can expect in their share of resources in the future.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationSusan, B. A. (2015). <i>Overcoming the Penrose Stairs of history: the legislated treatment of the 'designated groups' within a hierarchy of discrimination approach</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Law ,Department of Commercial Law. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19912en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationSusan, Brett Andre. <i>"Overcoming the Penrose Stairs of history: the legislated treatment of the 'designated groups' within a hierarchy of discrimination approach."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Law ,Department of Commercial Law, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19912en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationSusan, B. 2015. Overcoming the Penrose Stairs of history: the legislated treatment of the 'designated groups' within a hierarchy of discrimination approach. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Susan, Brett Andre AB - A Penrose Staircase- an impossible object always ending ascending yet constantly descending and ending as an illusion. This is Employment Equity legislation in South Africa with its purported aim of redressing the disadvantages of its designated groups. It is legislation that aims to promote equal opportunity, fair treatment and eliminate unfair discrimination yet cannot unshackle itself from the very types of racial identifiers that it wishes to have eliminated. This paper is an attempt to give greater content and context to the purpose of Employment Equity than the few sentences provided in the preamble of the Act. In particular, I have focused on the Act's own racial differentiator - 'Blacks' - as a seemingly convenient catch-all rubric which is drenched with the very abhorrent salience of race and thickening of racial classifications which it wishes to escape from. 'Blacks', as Africans, Indians and Coloureds, as I will conclude, have intertwined yet different experiences of apartheid and their emergence from Apartheid and projected future can be so vastly contrasted that Employment Equity measures based on its current simplified Verwoerd an racial descriptors will perpetuate inequality and racial disunity. This paper is a study some of the more than three hundred years of policies, practices, laws and the might of the sophisticated government machinery which aimed at placing Whites at the apex of control over the country's resources and contrast how each of the designated groups have (1) experienced legislated discrimination aimed against them; (2) as a snapshot of 1994, how they have emerged from this history and(3) the predicted trajectory that each group can expect in their share of resources in the future. DA - 2015 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2015 T1 - Overcoming the Penrose Stairs of history: the legislated treatment of the 'designated groups' within a hierarchy of discrimination approach TI - Overcoming the Penrose Stairs of history: the legislated treatment of the 'designated groups' within a hierarchy of discrimination approach UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19912 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/19912
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationSusan BA. Overcoming the Penrose Stairs of history: the legislated treatment of the 'designated groups' within a hierarchy of discrimination approach. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Law ,Department of Commercial Law, 2015 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19912en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Commercial Lawen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Lawen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherLabour Lawen_ZA
dc.titleOvercoming the Penrose Stairs of history: the legislated treatment of the 'designated groups' within a hierarchy of discrimination approachen_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
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