Afriviation, there was a good way to get SA on the right track in 1994, 12 years ago. And that was to immediately address the educution issue. there is only one way to get ahead in the world, and that is to get educated and qualified and start pulling your weight in the real world. In 12 years it was possible to get TWO university degrees!!
Passing laws favoring certain groups was proved to be a gross mistake under the apartheid government. What does the ANC government do?? The same silly thing.
Some money was allocated to education, and although some individuals looked upon this gift as their 'right' and started toyi-toyi on campus, lots of the beneficiaries are in good jobs today, helping to propel the SA economy on its path. And it's doing well.
Too much money was wasted on bullsh1t like expensive inaugurations, parties, renaming this city and that nature reserve. LOTS of money was wasted which could have been better spent on education. How many scandals, frauds etc has this government been involved in? How many freeloaders are on the gravy train? Get RID of them, get people in there who can DO THE JOB and SOME OF the squatters and the poor folk in the townships would be better off.
I say SOME OF because there are TENS OF MILLIONS of people living in poverty in SA. To subsidise them all would bankrupt the country. They have to pull themselves up. And the initial, most critical, part of that pulling themselves up is to vote the right people in who are going to care for them, not some selfish fat-cat who is going to line his own pockets.
Not everyone can afford to go to university. Not everyone can afford to train to be a pilot. Simple facts of life.
MOST South African blacks who are admittedly poor, and who do admittedly live in substandard accomodation, with substandard services, are still a hell of a lot better off than the majority of their cousins in the Congo, Mozambique, DRC, CAR, Nigeria, Guinea, Chad, Sudan...the list is exhaustive.
You do have a chip on your should against the white man, and sure, the apartheid policies were wrong. BUT. What he left your black government with to use and build upon was a damn good infrastructure and working systems.
And most whites stand shoulder to shoulder with you to build the place up and to get ahead, FAIRLY for everyone.
What we've seen you do is vote in a government which consisted of a lot of exiles who had never really held down a proper job in their lives now pop up and be MEC's, MP's and Ministers. And then you ignorantly re-vote them in simply because they were black/ANC. Just because we are white doesn't mean we will stand on your neck. We WILL help, we WILL be fair and we WILL get the job done.
But we don't like people getting jobs who are NOT ABLE to do them, because that just drags everyone down, including you.
I think the preferential hiring of white females is just as wrong as the preferential hiring of blacks. there should be NO PREFERENCE. Qualifications and experience should be the deciding factor.
Having said that I think that money should be PREFERENTIALLY ALLOCATED to the previously disadvantaged for their education so that they can better themselves and then enter the real world and start pulling their weight. If they screw up at university and don't get qualified, the only people it affects are themselves.
But to preferentially stick someone in a REAL WORLD job and then they screw up it adversely affects the real world and all who are a part of it.
comprehende?
So, vote for me next time
