Abstract
The paper offers an innovative intersectional feminist policy analysis of the Black Industrialist Policy (BIP). The BIP is one of the instruments introduced by the South African government to facilitate economic transformation through altering the ownership and leadership patterns of the economy. An intersectional feminist policy framework is a merger of feminist policy analysis framework and intersectionality-based policy analysis tools. The intersectional feminist policy framework is guided by a number of questions that help direct policy analysis. Document analysis was used to determine if the BIP assumed an intersectional feminist approach to engendering the policy and implementation. The data sources are the black industrial policy and the department of trade and industry annual reports on the BIP. The analysis shows that the BIP has attempted to engender the policy through programmatic support. However, the language of the policy document is insufficient in adequately representing the heterogeneity of women industrialists. Nevertheless, the Black Industrial scheme has been found to have made significant strides in supporting women-owned enterprises to benefit from the funding allocated for BIP. This paper is aimed at informing endeavours towards policy review, including processes of formulating future policy agendas. The BIP is analysed using an intersectional feminist policy analytical tool to ascertain the transformative potential of the policy with regards to addressing the skewed gendered ownership of the South African economy. 2