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G-Man
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 Posted: Fri 11 Apr 2008 20:02 Post subject: Poor Whites in South Africa (Afrikaners really) |
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youtube link to an Australian news show similar to "20/20".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFj0HdW2iDs&NR=1
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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.
Question for the board: It has been my understanding that there have always been poor whites (Afrikaners) in South Africa. Wasn't the National Party's policy of "grand apartheid" motivated in part by a desire to improve the lot of many poorer Afrikaners relative to English-speaking whites and non-whites? In essence they implemented a policy of social democracy for their fellow Afrikaners, complete with affirmative action and government-mandated higher wages for similar work Africans performed. |
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pennypincha
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| Posted: Mon 26 May 2008 21:47 Post subject: Re: Poor Whites in South Africa (Afrikaners really) |
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| G-Man wrote: | youtube link to an Australian news show similar to "20/20".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFj0HdW2iDs&NR=1
From the link:
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.
Question for the board: It has been my understanding that there have always been poor whites (Afrikaners) in South Africa. Wasn't the National Party's policy of "grand apartheid" motivated in part by a desire to improve the lot of many poorer Afrikaners relative to English-speaking whites and non-whites? In essence they implemented a policy of social democracy for their fellow Afrikaners, complete with affirmative action and government-mandated higher wages for similar work Africans performed. |
The whites shown would have clearly been part of the lower class in any society. |
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