Al Jazeera ~Witness-South African Poor Whites 2007 08 avi

Al Jazeera ~Witness-South African Poor Whites 2007 08 avi

(22min)

Despite eliciting worldwide support during its decades long liberation struggle, for what it said would be a non-racist, democratic South Africa, where all would be equal - Al Jazeera discovers that the African National Congress government has recreated what some might characterize as a new form of discrimination in its Black Empowerment policies.

The program shows that the social safety net of white privilege in the former apartheid system that pampered on the basis of white skin now demonstrates indifference towards any whites in a downward spiral towards hitting bottom.

(The original poster of this torrent states “There were always 'lower working class' white people (blue collar workers) - and just because apartheid was in place, this did not mean that automatically, every white person lived a rich lifestyle. To even suggest this, is to be rewriting reality and history - and perhaps trying to reduce sympathy for this segment of the population, who are being turned into beggars.

“So what you're seeing in this program - are the formerly, always struggling, lower-working-class white people, who've now been effectively blocked from the already menial low-grade jobs, that they were doing before democracy came.”

“Note the clear delight in the various interviewed black South Africans, at the situation for this strata of working class whites, who've lost what little they had. As well as the anger from a Government minister, when asked the fairly obvious questions about 'what happened to the promises of a non-racially based society'.”

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