When the National Party were in power they created a base of rich Afrikaners to maintain the economics of the country, the ANC's less than charismatic, Oliver Tambo studied that and came to the realisation that that was the way to go.
Now, a few years down the line Mbeki has gone from implementing job opportunities where a certain percentage of staff for business's had to be black, this is called Affirmative Action, to companies earning more than 250 000 rand per year having to implement the BEE (Black Equity Empowerment) policy and having to give 40% of the company to a black partner- qualified or not and whether they like it or not in spite of it being racist, or as it is called "positive racism". I am still trying to see what is positive about it
I think the ANC use the excuse of equal rights just to hold onto the economic powerbase as I explained earlier so that no-one and I mean no-one can take it away from them- checkmate!
So what could have been done? Well, South Africa could have spent a period of time putting up training faclities- decent universities, hired decent lecturers not dropped the level or standard of schools- you fail, too bad, and created training programs for blue-collar workers, slowly introducing them into the work market. Instead of taxing the whites to death they could have created an overall tax- now S.A. sits with the same problem as Egypt, most people are spending money in the informal sector but no-one is paying tax. Result- false economy.
Lets not forget the Nelson Mandela bridge in Johannesburg which cost 80 million rand to build- when there was already a bridge there!!!! Very, very clever! That money could have created more desperately needed jobs, but hey I dont know what I am talking about after all we need the Nelson Mandela bridge, the Nelson Mandela hospital, the Nelson Mandela prison and lets not forget the Nelson Mandela square.........hmmmm, I am sure they are going to change the name of the country to the only hero the ANC ever had, how about Mandelaland?
