Cape Town's main problem found

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Too white, backward.

Cape Town - It is not that Cape Town companies do not want to transform - they want to, and know they must - but they find it difficult because black professionals really do not want live here.

Guy Lundy, who heads a company which aims to bang the drum for Cape Town business - Accelerate Cape Town - reckons that this is one of the reasons why major companies like Shell, Old Mutual and BP have moved their head offices away from the city.

"If it becomes a trend," he told the Cape Town Press Club on Thursday, "and we lose the corporates, we lose the places where most young entrepreneurs cut their teeth and the customers that most small companies sell to. In other words, if we lose the corporates, many of the entrepreneurs will follow."

Cape Town could become "the sinking island " sinking into the sea, with a mountain of rubbish and poverty behind", he suggested.
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Another perception is that Cape Town is overwhelmingly a white city and not an African city. The facts, Lundy said are otherwise. The 2001 census showed that 55% of the population was coloured, 24% black and 20% white.
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One more example where no one could get away with saying "too black" about any other city, but 20% is "too white".
 
One white is one white to many, you will get used to it in time in Africa.
 
Cape Town is 55% coloured? I'm surprised. I know there are a lot of them, but people think of Durban as an 'Indian' city and they only account for about 20% of the population there.
 
ZA.Schmidt said:
Cape Town is 55% coloured? I'm surprised. I know there are a lot of them, but people think of Durban as an 'Indian' city and they only account for about 20% of the population there.
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I would think so. 'Coloured" Cape Town expat in Gauteng ... over here :D

I think the article is a little biased. I know quite a few "black" professionals moving down to Cape Town because of job transfers.

Weird indeed!
 
Complete moron this oke..

Cape Town is growing in popularity rather than losing its popularity.

He just has to bang his drum to this tune so he can get business is my guess.
 
Another ariticle proudly brought to you by the ANC.
 
I've read some of his speeches. He mentions the most obvious things, and people pay him for it. I get the feeling his parents brought him up telling him he was special, but the world didn't know it.

He's also recently returned from working and living abroad.

Guy, if you're reading this, look at the light. Cape Town is NOT South Africa. It has an independent history. If you don't like it, then go live somewhere else. I'm sooo tired of people trying to engineer the demographics of the country, of business, my neighborhood. Enough already!
 
Sackboy said:
I've read some of his speeches. He mentions the most obvious things, and people pay him for it. I get the feeling his parents brought him up telling him he was special, but the world didn't know it.

He's also recently returned from working and living abroad.

Guy, if you're reading this, look at the light. Cape Town is NOT South Africa. It has an independent history. If you don't like it, then go live somewhere else. I'm sooo tired of people trying to engineer the demographics of the country, of business, my neighborhood. Enough already!
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I totally get what Guy is saying bit he's barking up the wrong tree...there's a million and one reasons there aren't more black people in Cape Town...30% is historical and the rest is perception. There's no more racial discrimination in Cape Town then in any other SA city....Cape Town gets a bad rep though because the racial politics is more pronounced (especially around the time of elections).
 
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