I left it too late, at my age (just short of 60) my options are very limited, but my daughter is actively looking at going now and I fully support them.
What is sad is that the ANC is not learning the lessons from history. In the 30's the Carnegie report looked at the problem of Afrikaner poor whites. The nutshell conclusion was that there were 3 kind of poor people, those that were disowned after the Boer war and lost everything they had, those that had potential but no opportunities and the last group were poor because the were useless ("sleg") and no matter how much you spend on them, they will always be poor. The recommendation was to focus on the fist 2 groups, and massive job creation efforts was started: Iscor, Eskom, Railways etc, and some welfare for the very poor. The Afrikaner grabbed the opportunities and many of them became very wealthy and a large middle class was created. Those that depended on the government to look after them, are today employed as car guards and stand at the robots with sad placards.
Having said that, what do you say to a bright young white boy with a decent matric pass why no employer is willing to give him a chance?