Drawing on her experience of BEE over its 15-year history, the author undertakes an uncompromising and critical review of the policy, its results and important lessons. The fact that BEE seems to have survived the global financial collapse - unlike in the Nineties after the Asian market crisis - is little cause for comfort. This title is about the most controversial and tantalising side to black economic empowerment - the transfer of corporate shareholding to black people. It takes an uncompromising view of policy, it challenges popular perceptions; it finds BEE role models and powder kegs amidst broad-based ownership; and it offers new ideas on the future of black ownership in South Africa's corporate sector.