🧵 Most people think BEE was an ANC invention. They're wrong.The real architect of Black Economic Empowerment was an Afrikaner, Attie du Plessis, executive director of Sanlam's Sankorp.In 1993, Sankorp quietly made history by selling a stake in Metropolitan Life to black-owned Corporate Africa, the FIRST formal BEE transaction in South Africa. By the early 90s, the resulting company (NAIL) was the largest black-owned company on the JSE.Du Plessis was also at the table in Dakar, Senegal in 1987,