'AA won't be scrapped'

As long as imbalances of the past still persist, the government's affirmative action policy would not be scrapped, deputy president Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka said on Tuesday.

Replying to a question by an MP in the national council of provinces who had asked her if the government had any intentions to do away with the policy, Mlambo-Ngcuka said affirmative action was a corrective measure that could only be disbanded once its objectives had been met.

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