Snippets from South Africa, June 2005
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White Unemployment Jumps by 30% Under ANC Rule
Affirmative action, a racist recipe for disaster, is nothing but apartheid in reverse. The ANC can deny it as much as it likes, but that won’t alter the truth of it. White males are now being discriminated against in the workplace on account of the colour of their skin. Since the ANC took power eleven years ago, vast numbers of white men are now out of work – and are unable to find other employment because they are white. The level of poverty among whites jumped by a staggering 30% between 1998 and 2004, with over 182000 white households – about a million people – earning less than R9000 a year. That’s about US$1300, or UK£750 at the present exchange rate. In the words of Willie Spies, spokesman on labour for the Freedom Front Plus, an Afrikaner party, new government labour policies had resulted in white and Coloured males [in SA “Coloureds” does not refer to black people, as it did at one time in America, but to a people descended from blacks, whites, and various others] being the “new marginalised and vulnerable sector in the labour market,” exposed to an “indifferent and hostile” government. He said that unemployment among white and Coloured men had risen dramatically. “In its drive to achieve a more representative head-count in the economy, the government identified so-called white males as the most unwanted species,” he said (The Star, http://www.star.co.za).
He added, “most of these people are caring fathers and loving husbands fearing the future as it is becoming increasingly difficult for them to make ends meet in the South Africa created by the ANC.”
There is indeed great fear among whites in SA. And with very good reason. They have been reduced to virtual non-entities in the land of their birth. There is no place for them in Thabo Mbeki’s South Africa. In fact, the ANC government is deliberately trying to force as many whites to emigrate as possible. Those who will be left will be a forgotten and insignificant minority in the country they built.
Liberal critics might say that there are still more unemployed blacks in SA than unemployed whites. That is true – but as pointed out by Spies, “Although it is acknowledged that the percentage of poor whites is still smaller than the percentage of poor blacks, poor whites, unlike their black counterparts, are exposed to a government-imposed environment that is not only indifferent towards their plight but even hostile to efforts aimed at improving it.” And this, be it remembered, from a government which has fooled the whole world into believing that under its rule SA has become a “non-racial”society! What a lie: SA is today as racially divided as ever.
Not only that, but so-called “Black Economic Empowerment” initiatives (BEE) are simply not helping the majority of black people at all. They are making a handful of blacks extremely wealthy; the majority remain as poor as ever, even more so. The following sentence is a very true analysis: “If all South African industry were owned by a dozen black billionaires while the majority of black people were living in penury, this would count as successful transformation, just as Zimbabwe, which is now in ruins but has black ownership of the farms, is seen as having had a successful transformation” (The Zimbabwean, 29 April 2005).
White South Africans Are As African As Black South Africans
The Freedom Front Plus, an Afrikaner party, in a bid to counter the ANC government’s intensified discrimination against white South Africans, has advised all its members to identify themselves as “Africans” on application forms and other documents that require them to disclose their racial identification. It said it would not assist the ANC government by “contributing to our own downfall” in applying for jobs in SA (The Witness, April 25, 2005).
This is an excellent idea, and we support it wholeheartedly. It is not illegal. Documents require South Africans to state whether they are “African”, “white”, “Indian”, or “Coloured”. I am as much an African as any black man living here, and I am as entitled to call myself one as he is. It would be amusing if it wasn’t so insidious: I recall that when I was growing up, many black people didn’t like to be called “Africans” by white people. Yet now – now that they are in power – they insist on being referred to as “Africans.” Why? The answer is simple: by calling only themselves “Africans”, they are stating that white South Africans, Indian South Africans, and Coloured South Africans are not true Africans! They are saying in effect, “We are the only true Africans! The rest of you don’t belong here.”
Am I a European? No, I am an African. I was born here, my parents were born here, my grandparents were born here. It is not the colour of one’s skin that makes one an African, for then those black people born and living in Europe must not be called Europeans. There are black Europeans, and there are white Africans. My ancestors may have come from Europe a long time ago, but I am an African, and as much an African as any black man living in this country, whose ancestors came from a far distant part of Africa. We are all settlers, one way or another. Just like everyone else in the world, actually. None of us sprang out of the soil of the countries in which we live! We all descended from the sons of Noah, who migrated from the mountains of Ararat and whose descendants (the entire human race) are now settled all over the world.
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