Submission on the Companies Amendment Bill 2021
Summary
The Institute for Economic Justice, representing civil society organisations, supports the Companies Amendment Bill 2021, specifically praising new requirements for wage gap disclosure, binding votes on executive pay, and company ownership transparency to address South Africa's extreme socio-economic inequality.
Key insights
- Civil society organisations support the Companies Amendment Bill 2021 for introducing legal requirements regarding transparency in company ownership, binding votes on executive pay, and the disclosure of wage gaps.
- South Africa is described as the most unequal society in the world, with widespread and multidimensional inequality serving as the country's most significant socio-economic challenge, showing little progress since the end of apartheid.
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- iej_admin (2021). Submission on the Companies Amendment Bill 2021. Institute for Economic Justice. https://iej.org.za/resource/submission/submission-on-the-companies-amendment-bill-2021/
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- iej_admin. Submission on the Companies Amendment Bill 2021. Institute for Economic Justice, 2021. https://iej.org.za/resource/submission/submission-on-the-companies-amendment-bill-2021/.
- Wikipedia
- {{cite press release |last1=iej_admin |title=Submission on the Companies Amendment Bill 2021 |publisher=Institute for Economic Justice |date=16 December 2021 |url=https://iej.org.za/resource/submission/submission-on-the-companies-amendment-bill-2021/ |access-date=17 August 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}
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- @misc{iejadmin2021submission, author = {iej\_admin}, title = {{Submission on the Companies Amendment Bill 2021}}, publisher = {Institute for Economic Justice}, year = {2021}, month = dec, url = {https://iej.org.za/resource/submission/submission-on-the-companies-amendment-bill-2021/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }
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