bee

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The BEE legislation requires companies to offer ownership stakes, jobs and other preferences to historically disadvantaged South Africans, including Black, Indian and multiracial people.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025

It took them several years, after the fall of apartheid, to re-establish themselves as BEE entrepreneurs – and to bring many of their old comrades with them, into the business world.

From The Guardian • Jul. 11, 2019

A tour de force account of Noah’s ark features a long roll call of animals: “GET DOS . . . COW AND CUB/ BEE AND BOA/ YAK AND LEO/ DOE AND DOG.”

From New York Times • Jan. 3, 2019

Even though the BEE policies expanded over the years and helped create a rapidly expanding black middle class, they still largely failed to improve the lot of the majority.

From BBC • Dec. 9, 2013

Many controversies have been carried on, from a want of a little more knowledge; like that of the BEE orchis and the FLY orchis, both parties prove to be right.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Disraeli, Isaac