What will happen if this twisted state of affairs is allowed to continue is that the entire system will be degraded.
If people are allowed to give jobs to their own choice of person without regard to qualification, eventually the structure of society will be warped and the quality of life for everybody within that society, no matter whether you're a rich boy from Lonehill or a poor boy from Alex, will become worse.
A job is not, contrary to the belief of many of our brethren, an end in which it is justifiable to langusih in ingnorance and apathy. It is an integral part of an operation which has to run well to be successful. And the company is a microcosm of the country. If most companies within the country are not efficient, the country as a whole is worth less. Unfortunately, the most important 'company' in a country, the civil service, which services the fabric of the country as a whole, is usually the first and worst affected.
The apathy of South African citizens, all of them, not just the whites, towards afficrmative action WILL result in South Africa sliding backwards into the African morass and becoming a more desperate place for all to live in.
Witness the cities in countries which the colonial powers abandoned decades ago. The broken traffic lights hang from bent poles at intersections where skinny policemen in ill-fitting uniforms disinterestedly wave clapped-out vehicles along from all directions amidst a cloud of smog and dust....there's no streetlights, intermittent electricity supplies and questionable water. Telephones work occasionally. Hospitals are understocked, understaffed and dirty. Foreign aid disappears.
There is no recourse to the law. Money paves the way. Might rules.
It is still stoppable at the stage South Africa finds itself in. But there is a critical point, and once that point is reached, the inexorable slide backward gathers speed. We will witness an industrial revolution in reverse.
What did Zimbabwe use for light before candles?
...electricity
makes you think, doesn't it?