Is your 'suffering' real?

Nerfherder said:
Everyone is allowed to complain.... its a bad situation. Rich white people are less employable and poor black people are even less employable.

Without BEE and AA white people would still have been losing jobs to black people after the fall of apartheid. Its simple economics.

What this article failes to mention is the amount of people leaving the country or working overseas... its a huge consideration. Does anyone (white) know a family who does not have one person in their family working or living overseas ?
I'm never really sure if its a good or a bad thing, it just is what it is.
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No-one in my family - or on the side of my inlaws - live or work overseas. They are all here.
 
TJ99 said:
Two things wrong with that. First, the sentence above (logic fail). Second, it really pisses me off if an article says decomcracy started in 1994. What the **** were we before then? An Absolute Monarchy? Did we have a king of SA? A communist dictatorship? An Empire?

We were a republic since 1961, and before that a part of the British Empire, with elected prime ministers, thus also a form of democracy. Before that, the Orange Free State and the ZAR were also republics, with elected assemblies.
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:) The fail is strong in this one. If had to choose between this guy and an AA candidate, I choose the AA candidate!
 
scotty777 said:
I couldn't agree more. I've applied for bursaries, and been promptly rejected.
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Its becoming more and more scary. The only way to even get your CV looked at nowadays is to change your name Sipho.

Employment agencies don't even look past the first page of your CV if you are white and the company is looking for BEE/EE/AA/BBEE/PDI/)or whatever new name you want to call it) candidates.
 
On a side note, I'm not white but I'm not black either. I'm "colourful" :p
However - I have previously been told (on more than one occasion) that I unfortunately did not meet certain 'criteria' when applying for employment opportunities. Specifically AA/BEE opportunities.

So it leaves me (and I'm sure many other "colourful" folks out there) in a precarious situation: we're not 'black enough' to get a chance at the opportunities that our parents were not given and we're not white enough to even have a bitch about it.
 
MartyMarts said:
On a side note, I'm not white but I'm not black either. I'm "colourful" :p
However - I have previously been told (on more than one occasion) that I unfortunately did not meet certain 'criteria' when applying for employment opportunities. Specifically AA/BEE opportunities.

So it leaves me (and I'm sure many other "colourful" folks out there) in a precarious situation: we're not 'black enough' to get a chance at the opportunities that our parents were not given and we're not white enough to even have a bitch about it.
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Eish, looks like you drew the short straw :D

What you say however has truth to it as I've heard it from others that are not black enough either.
 
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