While the past is a painful place to be, there is some merit in examining how Afrikaner nationalism turned the tide of ‘the poor white’ into a wealthy nation
Lucy Hawkins, a career adviser at the University of Oxford, argues: “Take a step back and ask yourself: If you could click your fingers and instantly change things to make them better, what would the result be? Getting a clear picture of what ‘better’ looks like, is the key.” The first realisation, which Finance Minister Tito Mboweni – through his recent tweets – has started mooting, is the fact that political movements do not operate in an economic vacuum.
Economic historians and the task of our leaders today is to discover precisely how policy decisions taken during the apartheid era determined the country’s lack of economic growth in the 21st century.Veteran US journalist Jim Hoagland wrote an instructive book, South Africa: Civilisation in Conflict, after spending six weeks in 1970 conducting research locally and having studied South Africa before.
Economic historians and the task of our leaders today is to discover precisely how policy decisions taken during the apartheid era determined the country’s lack of economic growth in the 21st century.A bad educational legacy, urbanisation,labour legislation, culture and tradition, and external factors are still among the factors said to be the causes of poverty.
Adult females experience higher levels of poverty when compared with their male counterparts, regardless of the poverty line used.Key among these was to employ young, unskilled whites on the railways. The finance minister and the president can make these immediate changes to improve employment and fight disparaging poverty levels in the country.There are clear examples of programmes that have worked before in this country and sustained the apartheid state.
Still talking apartheid,25 years on. Great article.
Irony: '(they) created Eskom for cheap electricity'. The 7th largest producer in the world lowest prices in the world. And then the ANC took it over.
Yep they took care of the poor white off the backs of the black majority; great advice..
Why does he speak as if things have changed? Whites still benefiting and own the economy
Without having read the article one would have to say it happened at the expense of the rest of the country.
Oh dear,hier kom 💩
There was no one to advocate for Black workers Django Unchained Today, many of us hv failed because we play the part of Samwel L Jackson (A House Negro), and we believe it is a form of Emancipation GardeeGodrich
That Black Nationakists dont repeat the same mistakes.
City Press articles like this is what divides this country further.Only hard work past restorations and a booming economy without corruption and job opportunities will turn this country around.HermanMashaba
It’s good to implement black nationalism and turn the black poor into a wealthy nation at the expense of white,this revisionism is nauseating to say the least
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