ABSTRACT By employing a critical discourse analysis and approaching BEE as an institutionalised discursive phenomenon, this article demonstrates how the South African government constructs clashing BEE discourses in its policy and legal documents because of its complex political and economic interests. Instead of tightening its discursive mechanisms to enforce BEE to address racial inequality, the government uses the 2010 Mining Charter to decontextualise, dislocate, and weaken its transformation and political agenda. This article reveals how this discrepancy and redirection enable mining corporations to undermine, (re)frame, (in)validate or reject certain aspects of BEE to meet their own corporate interests. As they formally respond to government mandates, these firms are able to build a defensive rhetoric. In particular, this has allowed mining firms to adopt an ahistorical discourse of race and blackness, which can be traced back to the Mining Charter, and yet displaces and deracialises the political objective of BEE. They displace and decontextualise BEE by framing the transformation agenda as a managerial concept and ahistorical development issue. This strategy enables these firms to maximise the symbolic appearance of compliance while using their managerial authority and rational to limit the political costs and impacts of BEE.

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在南非矿业中构建黑人经济赋权：政府诉企业话语

摘要 本文通过批判性话语分析，将 BEE 视为一种制度化的话语现象，展示了南非政府如何在其政策和法律文件中构建冲突的 BEE 话语，因为其复杂的政治和经济利益。政府并没有收紧其话语机制来强制执行 BEE 以解决种族不平等问题，而是使用 2010 年的采矿宪章来去上下文化、脱节和削弱其转型和政治议程。本文揭示了这种差异和重定向如何使矿业公司能够破坏、（重新）构建、（无效）或拒绝 BEE 的某些方面以满足他们自己的公司利益。当他们正式响应政府的命令时，这些公司能够建立一种防御性的言论。特别是，这使得矿业公司能够采用一种非历史性的种族和黑人话语，这可以追溯到《矿业宪章》，但取代了 BEE 的政治目标并使之去种族化。他们通过将转型议程作为一个管理概念和非历史发展问题来取代 BEE 并使其脱离背景。该策略使这些公司能够最大限度地体现合规的象征性外观，同时利用其管理权威和理性来限制 BEE 的政治成本和影响。