Re: ...the main source of racism is the official, affirmative action policy of the ANC government which is directed against whites with the intention of correcting "previous economic wrongs". White South Africans, together with the Malaysian Chinese, are the only minorities in supposedly democratic countries who, to my knowledge, have no "minority rights".
But I already told you, Searle, you can't have it both ways... That is, keeping all the wealth and the good jobs AND maintain the racist status quo ante. You talk as if the end of apartheid somehow reversed the racial equation and put South African whites in hovels and shantytowns, deprived of any economic/political clout! Your firm grip on South Africa's riches --and your trade partners/friends overseas-- largely make up for your lack of political rights. Anyway, what sort of "rights" are you hinting at? Do you mean the current "ANC regime", as you put it, forbids you to intermarry with blacks, Chinese,...? You can't sit in "blacks-only" parks? Black tellers in banks and public offices are being rude at you? Or perhaps the police keeps pushing you around?
Published on Wednesday, July 2, 2003 by Inter Press Service
South Africa:
Ten Years After the End of Apartheid, Blacks Still Own Nothing
by Farah Khan
JOHANNESBURG - What does political power matter if it is not matched by economic power? This is the rationale gripping South Africa ten years after the end of apartheid.
Now for policy-makers, the most pressing challenge in South Africa is to change ownership patterns in the economy - where three quarters of equity is still largely in white hands.
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