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To: sea_urchin who wrote (9540)	12/21/2005 4:16:13 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22250

Re: Unfortunately, in SA under the ANC the opportunities for whites have been hurt. I don't say severely and I don't say it wasn't necessary but they were hurt all the same. He said the policy could also fail because of the well-established practice of corporations using black facades to mask white ownership and control. Black people control less than 4%, by value, of the shares on the Johannesburg securities exchange, and nine out of 10 senior management positions are held by white people. Empowerment's defenders say it is the only way to create a class of black entrepreneurs after the destruction of black business and education under apartheid. And the government has made it clear that it expects the policy to nurture smaller businesses in future. One entrepreneur wrote in a letter to the Johannesburg newspaper Business Day: "Despite our crippling past, I now can also have business hopes and dreams. "The white minority males can now take us seriously." The columnist Christine Qunta said that those who resented the new tycoons and complained about empowerment were racists. "The real subtext is, of course, that Africans have no right to be millionaires. "Like their mothers and fathers, they should spend their lives being gardeners, mine workers and domestic workers." [...] guardian.co.uk Your relentless attempt at likening the predicament of whites in post-apartheid SA to that of Europe's non-white immigrants is commendable yet utterly preposterous.... In case you're unaware of it, Europe's black and Arab immigrants don't own 90% of corporate Europe, they don't run the show holding 9 out of ten "senior management slots", and, last but not least, you won't find any black farmers in Europe. When the Brits make room for a coupla black farmers in Scotland then they'll be entitled to lecture Mugabe.... Gus