The obsession with perpetuating race-based engineering under the guise of redress is a masterclass in economic self-sabotage. More than three decades after the fall of apartheid, South Africa is still aggressively maintaining and expanding a vast apparatus of racial classification laws to punish the white minority, who comprise roughly 6% of the population, with nearly 40% of these laws ironically minted after 1994. You cannot build a competitive, high-growth economy by anchoring your legal and commercial frameworks to institutionalised identity politics. When you force businesses to navigate a Byzantine labyrinth of racial quotas, compliance certificates, and state-mandated equity transfers rather than merit and commercial viability, you don't achieve economic justice, you achieve economic stagnation. True transformation is a product of world-class basic education, rigid property rights, and infrastructure competence. Instead, South Africa has chosen to codify a permanent bureaucratic parasite class that feeds off the private sector while the masses remain structurally trapped in poverty. Capital is a coward; it flows exclusively where risk is predictable and rules are colorblind. Until the state drops the cheap dopamine hit of identity politics and embraces a cold, clinical meritocracy, it will continue to wonder why it is litigating itself into a permanent low-growth trap.