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There is a general consensus among many of my peers that although we are better off than our parents and ancestors who endured years of oppression, the system still disadvantages many of us in some way.

And it’s for this reason that we ought to celebrate Freedom Day in honour of those who fought and endured such hardships for us to have a better life. My friend tells me that many of his young colleagues who come from different racial and socioeconomic backgrounds can afford to live in luxury estates, while he still has to catch a taxi from the Eastrand to Johannesburg every day and endure long trips to and from work.

I use the concept of “black tax” as just one example of how the system haunts us. Nelson and I, plus many of our friends, agree that it is a system borne out of the many years of colonial domination and apartheid’s economic exploitation. This is a legacy left by both of these oppressive systems.

26 years of poverty, reverse apartheid and discrimination against minorities based on race, especially whites through BBBEE and Affirmative Action, state capture, looting, socialist policies of the NDR, crippling economy, failing SOEs and lockdown. There is nothing to celebrate!

26 years of poverty, reverse apartheid and discrimination against minorities based on race, especially whites through BBBEE and Affirmative Action, state capture, looting, socialist policies of the NDR, crippling economy, failing SOEs and lockdown. There is nothing to celebrate!

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