Aktually speaking, about last year I was once again doing a spot of the old flying at Midrand and we happened to taxi near to Eskom. They guy I was training tells me that Eskom has a shortage of pilots since quite a while but that they will only take black women candidates. As a consequence of this policy, Eskom, I was being told, had a shortage of pilots.
I do not know if this is true but if it is then it is an indication of the legend of the nose to spite the face and is, very bloody stupid too! Course, the Zulus used to go around sticking spears in to a lot of their own warriors on the fairly regular basis when they thought there was a witch about or a suitable mother such as Nandi needed the spiritual commemoration. This did not do their fighting moral or their numbers much good.