Denny, excuse the long post, but you wanted honesty, and I would like to provide my honest view and opinion on this topic.
The disparity is certainly there, and from when it started, I don't know, and for when it might improve and get to 50/50 at any point in the distant future, I also have zero idea.
For the record... I absolutely hate quotas..... I despise them...…..quotas are a vacuum that just destroys everything it comes into contact with...…...it does nothing for our workforce, such as our professional occupations like doctors, surgeons, dentists, CEO's...…..nor does it do anything to improve our economy, by employing less educated people to do the correct and necessary job. The amount of non qualified people in extremely important positions in this country, who cause billions of rands in losses, due to not being prepared or fully educated for the position they are in, is staggering.
The approval mark or acceptance mark has been lowered over the years to accommodate these quota's...…. whether that be on the sports field or in the boardroom, so therefore our sports all suffer, as do our businesses...… Eskom, SAA, Transnet, Telkom....
My children could have been heavily affected by these quotas, because other black children that achieved absolutely nothing even remotely close to what my kids did in school, got the bursaries or full scholarships, only to pull out halfway through those university scholarships after a year and a half...… choose some other field because they did not enjoy what they were currently studying and got a bursary for...…... and then still get another full and complete bursary to study their new career option at another university in a completely different town.
Years ago, my daughter's one friend in her class got 52% for matric, and nothing more.... and that friend got a full bursary to Stellenbosch university...…. my daughter got 6 distinctions, and got nothing...….. I will be honest by saying that if nobody at all got nothing, then I could live with that...… but if one gets a full bursary for achieving 52%, and another with 6 distinctions over 80% gets nothing only because she is white......where is the disparity in that...… it's all just reverse racism.
I say my kids could have been affected, because luckily we had study policies in place from when they were young...... but thousands of families don't have that option, and what does that do to the child who wants to become a doctor, heart surgeon.....but the family cannot afford university...…….
I'm also tired of defending being white, when I personally did zero to any person of colour..
You get Black Power, Black lives matter, NBJC, BYP, BOLD, AAPC, NBMJI.... to name but a few.....etc etc, but say anything like that and include "white" in it, then you are a disgusting white supremacist.... there is just no give here...….
It was in the news yesterday...…...Ramaphosa has been begging all young South Africans to stay in the country, and of those who have left, to please return and help grow SA...…... check out their response letters to News24 below...…. News24 said the response from the youth of SA..... black, white, coloured etc etc was absolutely overwhelming
You will find this extremely interesting.....
Why the youth are leaving SA
Why do we have something like only 7% -12% of our municipalities nationwide, that are actually operating efficiently...…. who is to blame for this, why are they still in the position they are?
Why is water becoming such a problem in SA, for so many towns...…….... we actually know exactly why...………. because the infrastructure is so incredibly poor, and has not been upgraded or updated for the last 25 years...… this is a fact, and we lose billions of liters every month because of all the leaks...…
You have municipal staff deliberately turning off water supplies to certain areas in South Africa because their requests to get paid more overtime was denied, because the work they were supposed to do, could and should have easily been done in a normal work week, but it wasn't......they were delaying it on purpose to get overtime...… and when it gets denied, sabotage your community...… why are they not arrested.
Why are taxi's that are found guilty of transporting 65 children, back on the road within 24 hours.....
Why are our police so inept at doing their job...…… they are mostly incredibly overweight, have no pride in the uniform, and will take a bribe 5 times out of 10
My honest feeling is this.....
Mandela had the once in a lifetime opportunity to show that a black man could turn a country around, and govern it to become a complete and utter success in front of an entire world audience..... it unfortunately did not happen
Thabo Mbeki then had the perfect opportunity to show that a black man could turn a country around, and govern it to become a complete and utter success in front of an entire world audience..... it unfortunately did not happen
Jacob Zuma had the opportunity to show that a black man could turn a country around, and govern it to become a complete and utter success in front of an entire world audience..... it unfortunately did not happen
Robert Mugabe had the opportunity to show that a black man could turn a country around, and govern it to become a complete and utter success in front of an entire world audience..... it unfortunately did not happen
The need for self sustainability and overall greed is just too far entrenched into the people that were previously disadvantaged and they want payback...… at any cost, including to their own people
Also, if you are not educated or very poorly educated......, and you are living off a very small government grant every month, why would you choose to have 8 children? Why would you deliberately want to bring that many children into this world, and not fully be able to provide for them and shove them into a 2 room shack......Why do this, and then blame everyone else around you, but mostly the white man.
A man that recently waited 20 years for his ANC RDP house, and protested for a long time by burning cars and blockading national roads etc etc because it was taking too long.... recently finally got his brand new house...… and when the government went to check on him a few months later to see how happy he was to have finally gotten out of a shack...…. they found him living in the exact same tin shack behind the brand new RDP house that he was recently given...…....….. he was renting his new house out for R7 000 a month, and treating himself to all these other luxury goods while he lived in the same shack that he fought and blocked roads to get out of, for 20 years.....
Where is the logic in that?
I certainly don't have the answers, and I know for 100% certainty that I am not racist...…. but man.... I really don't see how much good the black government has done for it's very own people in the last quarter of a century...….and yet me..... the white man...... is still to blame.