A shift in racial hiring practices and the recent global economic crisis means many white South Africans have fallen on hard times. Researchers now estimate some 450,000 whites, of a total white population of 4.5 million, live below the poverty line and 100,000 are struggling just to survive in places such Coronation Park, a former caravan camp currently home to more than 400 white squatters.See the whole slide show HERE
Finbarr O’Reilly started journalism as an arts writer for national newspapers in Canada in 1998. He joined Reuters in 2001 as a freelance text correspondent in Kinshasa, Congo and spent two years covering Central Africa’s Great Lakes region from Kinshasa and from Kigali, Rwanda. He has also written for The Economist and reported for the BBC and CNN.
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His work looks really interesting, you don't see/hear much about this side of Africa. I a really good photojournalist
ReplyDelete"A shift in racial hiring practices" - hardly. South Africa practices employment apartheid under the banner of Affirmative Action. This is the practice of hiring on the basis of RACE and not qualification. I think a generation after the collapse of apartheid this racist and illegal policy should be recognized for what it is.
ReplyDeleteSorry, but I will burst your ignorant soap bubble, but South-Africa is the land of blacks so they have the right to choose what policy they want to run. This is the same thing that's going on in Europe right now because of the crisis. Europeans select/prefer white people in companies over immigrants currently, so the amount of unemployed immigrants becomes higher and higher.
DeleteYes, we pay taxes as well so it's a bit unfair, but from a human point of view I think it's understandable. If my native country had an economy crisis I'd be quick to help my people first as well, then the rest of people will follow, if that's possible. This is how it works in the world, the world will be never perfect.
What goes around comes around, eh?? When blacks were in poverty, no one ever cared about how they were living, faring and it was a good thing in the eyes of the majority that they were kept apart. God has seen the evilness of apartheid and has made that justice is now coming.
ReplyDeleteWhy don't they go back to Europe where they belong? Europe is rich and will welcome you with open arms!!!!!
DeleteI'm telling you, this will befall Europe in the forseeable future as well, mark my words. Europe's end is near!!!
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