Too white to study medicine

[Boyrock]

http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/2011/11/27/too-white-to-study-medicine

This is crazy. Can't something be done in court to prevent racism as blatant as this. Whites are like the permanent underclass of the new SA.

We should demand our rights like all the other races.

 

[daveza]

We don't need medical students with 6 distinctions apparently.

 

[Sinbad]

"The decision was taken to safeguard the integrity and fairness of the process in terms of the more than 550 candidates who had not been selected and who, based on merit, were ranked higher."

So skin colour is a merit now.

What a load of crap.

 

[marine1]

I dont get it, someone that wants to help people?

 

[ponder]

Maybe she can get one of those 4 bursaries left by that white woman in her will

Edit: Oops, that still won't get her in seeing it's only a bursary and has nothing to do with admission.

 

[Sinbad]

Maybe she can get one of those 4 bursaries left by that white woman in her will

To do what with? She's been hoofed OUT of the course? I'm sure it's not because she wasn't paying

 

[Nicodeamus]

Apparently being black has been elevated to be a skill in SA society.

 

[Geriatrix]

She should apply for bursaries overseas and take her skills and intelligence with her.

 

[Nom Chompsky]

27 November 2011. Ok...

Btw this particular topic has been debated to death in numerous threads...

 

[Guantanamo]

My cousin got 8 and wasn't accepted at UCT, only Wits.

 

[Africaner]

She should apply for bursaries overseas and take her skills and intelligence with her.

This is what I have done and I am smiling all the way. South Africa and sub Sahara is for blacks. The sooner you figure that out the better for you and your family.

 

[Wyzak]

Reverse racism is the order of the day in South Africa...

 

[empirex]

That's just wrong, horrible.

She must be feeling real patriotic right about now.

 

[Eskimos]

My cousin got 8 and wasn't accepted at UCT, only Wits.

Yeah heard the same from quite a few people being turned down at UCT but accepted elsewhere. Its horrible

Reverse racism is the order of the day in South Africa...

I thought reverse racism is discrimination against the majority?

 

[Necuno]

Whites are like the permanent underclass of the new SA.

I wonder why

 

[TJ99]

Reverse racism is the order of the day in South Africa...

There's no such thing. Racism is racism. No direction is implied.

 

[OMB]

dragging up a stale article from last year, I mean really

 

[Wise_Intelligence]

....

 

[Flanders]

Maybe she can get one of those 4 bursaries left by that white woman in her will

Edit: Oops, that still won't get her in seeing it's only a bursary and has nothing to do with admission.

The peanut gallery from that thread must be over the moon. You know, atonement and all that other bullshít.

 

[simmo44]

It's disgusting, and they let people of colour in with much lower marks purely to meet quota. Would you rather have the best doctor look after you or someone admitted purely because of skin colour.

Affirmative Action is supposed to only use colour as a criteria if the candidates have equal qualifications.