Poor Whites - South Africa

June 2006
Since the end of apartheid, thousands of white South Africans have been forced into poverty. They blame the government's positive discrimination policies, which favour black employees.

Twelve years ago, Afrikaners like Betsie Dreyer lived a privileged and cocooned life. Now, many are dependent on charity handouts. "We are fighting all the time to survive." The government is determined to see the workforce appropriately reflect the population. It gives black people priority in employment, sets 'black quotas' for businesses and favours companies owned by black people. But critics accuse the government of neglecting its responsibility to white citizens. As union rep Kallie Kriel states: "It's ironic that a government that fought racial laws is now doing exactly the same thing."

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[geekforlifevandc]

wait blacks are racist too? who would've guessed?

[friendly5088]

@TiskTisk010 You want European wages right!? Well work for it. How many blacks start up businesses? They are still waiting for the whites to make the first move. And yes you are oppressing us with your crime and your nonsense each day. Apartheid was 50 out of 350 years in South Africa. Get over it. You were asleep for 2500+ years achieving jack shit with the world's wealthiest resources. The Platinum in the ground is worth more than the oil of Saudi Arabia. You woke up late and now want catchup

[friendly5088]

@TiskTisk010 Start working you lazy fucks. 45% of the population on welfare grants. 99.5% of welfare grants to blacks. You want 1/2 of the salaries of French workers. SA loses 5x more days to strikes per 1000 employees than any other country in the world. And yes we Afrikaners and British are superior in that respect. We work. We don't spend our days complaining that our income is 20 times more than the rest of the blacks in Africa because of Apartheid and white settlers in Africa.

[TiskTisk010]

@friendly5088

wants to go down that road but whites are making it increasingly more difficult, they alienate themselves and want to be in a separate class. well there are 3 ways to classify themselves here. As an oppressor, as an equal or as oppressed. The first way didn't work. Black Africans appear to be making strides to make the second option work, but if you wont work with them there is always option 3.

[TiskTisk010]

@friendly5088

evasive as usual.

The fact that they didn't have a form of government that YOU are familiar with has nothing to do with anything.

80 years later, no government...bla bla bla what excuses can you come up with to defend the colonizing of dozens and dozens of other African countries. Let me guess, south Africa was the only one done correctly? lol

[friendly5088]

@TiskTisk010 The blacks are getting 99.5% of $15bn in welfare a year. 45% of the population is on welfare. Whites pay 50% of the taxes.