Niresh Singh calls for more to be done to assist Black Women-Owned Businesses

Lungile Ntimba

Deputy Director of Employment Equity (EE) at the Labour department, Niresh Singh, has called for more to be done in order to assist African, Coloured and women-owned businesses and transform the economic landscape of the country.

Singh addressed the Employment Equity workshop conducted in partnership with the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) held at Olive Convention Centre in Durban on Wednesday, under the theme of “Bridging the Equity Gap Through Diversity & Inclusion”.

The main focus of the workshop was on the EE Act amendments Bill that President Cyril Ramaphosa had signed into law last year.

Singh said there cannot be excuses such as “it’s a family business” when it comes to EE implementation as business needs transformation and women to thrive, and appealed to employers to avail opportunities to South Africans.

He said when it comes to implementation of the EE Act, the government, especially