南非黑人拥有的企业面临450亿美元的融资缺口，一份新报告显示，这既有“投资者的明确偏见”，也有诸如抵押品有限和治理问题等障碍。
South African Black-owned businesses face a funding shortfall of $45 billion, a new report shows, citing “explicit investor bias” alongside barriers such as limited collateral and governance concerns.
这些发现是在民主政府三十年前推出一系列措施之后得出的，这些措施被称为黑人经济赋权（BEE），旨在扭转黑人在 apartheid 和殖民主义时期所遭受的剥夺。尽管做出了努力来纠正这一问题，南非仍然是世界上最不平等的社会之一。
The findings come three decades after the democratic government introduced a raft of measures — known as Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) — aimed at reversing the dispossession suffered by Black people under apartheid and colonialism. Despite the efforts to redress the problem, South Africa remains one of the world’s most unequal societies.
该研究由英国国际投资公司和瑞典的Swedfund共同发表，两者都是国家所有的发展金融机构。该研究的发布正值华盛顿加大对比勒陀利亚的施压，要求其拆除BEE政策。美国大使利奥·布伦特·博泽尔三世已将废除该政策列入与改善投资环境相关的要求清单。比勒陀利亚拒绝了这一要求，尽管联合政府内部存在分歧。相反，政策讨论已转向设立一个600亿美元的基金，以帮助扩大规模的黑人拥有的小企业。
The study, published by British International Investment and Sweden’s Swedfund, both state-owned development finance entities, lands as Washington steps up pressure on Pretoria to dismantle BEE. US Ambassador Leo Brent Bozell III has put scrapping the policy on a list of demands tied to improving the investment climate. Pretoria has refused, despite disagreements within the coalition government. Instead the policy conversation has moved to creating a $60 billion fund to help scale up small Black-owned businesses.