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What's wrong with the country that went to the polls on Wednesday to vote for a new National Assembly, goes well beyond the hard facts - unedifying as those are.See also:
It's not that half the population lives in absolute poverty, that more than a quarter of adults are unemployed, or that the country has yet again been declared officially the most unequal in the world. Nor is it the economic growth rate that has stagnated at below a two percent average for a decade, as the rest of the world recovered from the global crisis, or the regular blackouts, the violent crime rates, or that one in five adults is infected with HIV.
Rather, the story since 1994 is of a country being given a historic chance to show the way to prosperity and democracy for Africa - and failing to take it, exactly as the pessimists predicted. [...]
What societal model has the African National Congress, the party of Nelson Mandela, built in the stead of apartheid? A virtual one-party rule unchallenged in six elections in a row, creeping racialism, an elite black class built on patronage, and rampant corruption, with officials chafing at the colonial institutions and norms safeguarding it from becoming like the rest of the continent.
SA has BBBEE (Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment). It basically mean white owned businesses cannot get contracts because you need to basically give your business away to have majority black ownership. So most big industries give management seats to "non-whites" (oh you better not say "blacks" or you would be called a racist) , even when they are not educated to fill the position. In those same BBBEE companies it is
almostimpossible for a white young male to get to work there. (I sincerely do not mind if they are better qualified for the job)I am someone that can trace my ancestry back more than 300 years living in South Africa (Ancestor arrived 1688 in CapeTown ). The majority of blacks only came the SA fleeing a genocide back about 200 years from the North and East. The area of Natal was home to the Zulus and the rest of the country was empty. Lookup "Mfecane" [Link]
In the "apartheid" are, there were indeed a couple of areas where non-whites got kicked out(a small area in Johannesburg and a small area in Cape Town (named district six if I recall correctly- but no blacks lived there)). The farm lands where paid for by their white owners, every cent, no handouts..
..sheesh, I can go on and on..
Most of the "protesters" and noise makers re "apartheid" are born after 1994 .
So, we basically have a slow genocide against the minority whites just trying to survive and make ends meet..
In close, as a white person of 50 years, I did not benefit one cent living in the "apartheid" era.