Poor Whites in S.A.

[Armstrong-Abbott]

This is pretty powerful stuff. It is 15 minutes long but I found it quite gripping. If you've got the time.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFj0HdW2iDs

[igundwane]

Common, you could see that big fat woman ,,, senta, santa what ever her name was, parked off behind a post office counter ..... !

Sorry, but if some pretty xhosa maid can do the job better ,,,,, then so be it ! Yes it is harsh, but they should have put something by for the future rather than sitting there, reading their bible and saying god will protect the Volk ! .... and ..... they are all still having kids ! whats with that ? They are so broke they are living in squatter shacks, and there is string of snot nosed brats running around !

Think that documentary kinda backfired ...

[Belladonna]

Jeez Iggy, did you not watch the video? These were people who were laid off because of black empowerment. They were gainfully employed but lost their jobs because they were the wrong colour, not because someone else could do it better. They are not included in assistance packages because they belong to the minority race. It is racism, plain and simple. It happened in Zim, but the people most affected were able to do a runner to SA. Where exactly can the South Africans go?

Poverty sucks, no matter what race the sufferer. And job selection based on race is wrong, no matter what the person's colour!!!

[boards]

they asked me to continue lectureing at varisty after my degree but only if i could meet any of the following requirements... then they might consider my employment if the candidates could not do a better job than me!!

1: coloured
2: female
3: disadvantaged
4: handicapped

ummmmm well no - so F**K OFF i dont want to live in South Africa anyway...

[Nyala]

One of the reasons we left Zim was because of Affirmative Action. The apprenticeship board put up 2000 new apprenticeships in engineering each year. There were approx 12000 applicants each year for these positions so my son had no chance whatsoever of gaining an apprenticeship. We were told this by one of the officials. When we asked how we could secure him a position they said it was unlikely unless he was a black Zimbabwean. Well, with that and other contributing factors, we put in applications for Australia and we couldn't be happier.

[Angelshark]

One of the reasons we left Zim was because of Affirmative Action. The apprenticeship board put up 2000 new apprenticeships in engineering each year. There were approx 12000 applicants each year for these positions so my son had no chance whatsoever of gaining an apprenticeship. We were told this by one of the officials. When we asked how we could secure him a position they said it was unlikely unless he was a black Zimbabwean. Well, with that and other contributing factors, we put in applications for Australia and we couldn't be happier.

Where are all those appies of colour now, running around terrorizing the masses. Are they putting their trades to use, what will happen to them if the country comes right, will they just blend back into jobs or will the be persecuted? When you look at appreticeships, how many people use their trades to fall back on and how many actually make their trades thier life. Now in SA things were good during the aparthied era, they thought they were invincible, did they not see what was happening to the north. After SA independence Affirmative Action was on the cards so why did people not pack up and leave.

[Belladonna]

Why didn't they leave? Where exactly were they to go? It's okay for those with trades that are required in Australia, or those who have some connection with the UK and therefore can get in there, but not everyone is in that situation. I have a few friends in SA who would leave tomorrow if they had somewhere to go, and/or the funds to get there. There's always going to be those that get left behind, not by choice, but by necessity.

[Nyala]

True, but there are also those who feel that things will come right - my own folks are among those. They had two chances in my childhood to move to Oz but decided against it coz they thought things would come right. Now they are stranded in Zim and I am trying to get them over here. It's not the fault of the folks who hoped for the best, but it's left them disillusioned and fairly desperate. We are hoping they will be with us by Christmas.

[igundwane]

Aaah well " Tubby " on there could always approach the SA version of the DMB ... Reakon shes got a fair few pints to sell each day !