Green you poor brainwashed guilt ridden whitey!
Look I sense you are a decent person but unfortunately you have no clue.
The basic argument here in SA is that if it wasnt for the bad whiteys all blacks would be first world beaters.
Ufortunately for that argument I have lived in other parts of Afrcica and know apartheid had very little to do with it. The fact is the rest of Africa is more backward than here. You do realise there was not apartheid in the rest of Africa. Africa needs to get on with things and stop blaming everyone else.
To give you an example - in figures I saw - Africa (with its immense resources) produces only 1.9% of world GDP. South Africa 0.6%. Take out the GDP generated as a consequence of outside powers/peoples how much would be left where you can say it is African generated. OZ , which is largely desset, and has a small population of some 20 million produces 1.6% of world GDP.
Africa has done zip for centuries and blames all and sundry for its backwardness. Here in South Africa we have a government busy looting state coffers, ruining the education and health system and generally screwing the place up with their incompetence and corruption. We are sliding down the ranks of competitiveness and business is locating elsewhere. Investment in mining is at a standstill and whereas we have huge potential the country is deteriorating.
In zim its all the fault of the British etc etc etc. No I admire folk like the Japs who have no resources but are the third largest economy in the world.
Nothing it taken into account here of how much benefit has come through the involvement of people who are not black. Personally I have no doubts at all I would have been far better off in a first world country than here. we pay alot of tax here but government services like health and education means you need to paly againand go private. Menwhile an estimated R30 billion a yea rgoes awol throughfraud andtenderpreneurship pusing up costs etc. An enormous figure for an econmy our size. Municpailities collapse through orruption and cadre deployment as do state owned enterprises which have continually to be bailed out by government using large amounts of taxpayers money. Escom, a government owned entity, tells government that in seven years time powers shortages would occur unless new power stationms are built. Seven year on tha tis exactly what happens!!
They claim we whiteys are advantaged. Well of course we are because wherever we go, on whatever continent we achieve first world standards. Africa never has done - neither here nor anyhwere. Apartheid is a useful stick to beat whiteys with but cannot explain why the rest of Africa is far worse off. Are folk in Africa under educated because of aparthied or starving because of apartheid or disease ridden etc etc. Africa doesnt even need to invent a thing - all they need to do is copy what works!
Apartheid didnt do us any favours but it is being used to make a false diagnosis and to cover up severe short comings of the curret regime.
So away with any racist notiton that any selection, if in doubt, should aways go a a black person. That is race based selection and is racist. No two players/persons are identical. Pick what you think is the best black or white person and stop all this crap. You will never build a harmonious country on race based selections.
When one thinks of what was done to blacks also ask yourself where would they be if no one had come here. Ask yourself what blacks did to blacks (There is no mention of that). How many thousands of years would need to pass before they were priviy to all there available is today. Would zuma, that champion of the poor, be able to now order a presidential jet for R2 billion and live in a mansion of splendour and drive an expensive merc etc etc if no whiteys and others peoples had arrived in Africa. No he would be living in a pole a dagga hut at standards thousands of years before Roman times even as many in Africa still do even today. I have seen these conditions with my own two good eyes. Facts that cannot be swept under the carpet.
Blame the whitey if you will for his faults but on balance the benefits transferred have been of incaluable worth - these are never factored into the equation as it is not convenient to do so.
