ABSTRACT
South Africa is a land of contrasts (Booysen, 1994; Booysen, 2001, 2005). The country is multicultural and comprises 11 official languages. Though South Africa is a relatively rich land and the economic giant in Africa, it is a developing economy-it has severe shortage of jobs. Almost half of the country’s population is without work. With economic, sport, and cultural sanctions lifted, apartheid legislation scrapped, and a new constitution, a truly democratic government was elected in 1994. Despite this, management power resided almost exclusively with White men; in 1994, white men held more than 80% of management positions (Central Statistics Service [CSS], 1995a, 1995b, 1996). A comparison between the 2000 and 2002/2003 Commission for Employment Equity reports shows that whereas there is an increase in the employment of Blacks in management, White men are still overrepresented (Commission for Employment Equity, 2003).
