Redistribution of Land, Wealth and Nationalization does not start or end with Julius Malema. PAC, AZAPO, BCM were seen as radical polititians during CODESA when they cried "LAND FIRST AND ALL SHALL FOLLOW". South Africa will never achieve total freedom as long as the majority of our people live in poverty and are denied job opportunities especially in the private sector irrespective of their qualifications. The Ideal of Nationalization will not disappear with the silencing of Malema.
It's high time that the wealthy few of this nation understand that black people are not only good enought to mann till points at Pick 'n Pay, Spar, Shoprite etc while their white kids are given Managerial Positions it those companies.
The Government cannot afford to be the only place where black people can have equal opportunities while their blood and sweat build this nation. Correct me if I'm wrong but after achieving freedom I don't expect to see only black people working as Petrol attendants, Shop Assitants, Waiters/waitresses, Cleaners etc. Are black people that illeterate that they can only be employed in inferior positions? Apartheid may be gone but it is alive and well in the private sector, ownership of mines, banks, big business and land has made white people create their own parallel government where they can exploit black people and turn them into slaves. It is our responsibility to break the circle of poverty by claiming what is rightfully ours and we should start with the Land and Mines because they are the source of wealth for the white minority. Black companies are not given equal opportunities in terms of tenders offered by mines yet white people expect the government to do away with tenders in the Public Sector. White people dislike BEE because it brings black people closer to them in terms of wealth and assets ownership, white people are already runnig out of space to create their "Volkstaat" cause black people accumulate property faster than they imagined and thus cram them for space in their formerly "white only suburbs". The saga surrounding Julius Malema was not sparked by the mansion he was allegedly building in Sandton but by the curiosity which continues to spark our nation everytime a young black person invests in property followed by the now popular phrase of "Another Tenderpreneur is in town".
If the wealthy white people of this nation do not intend to change their mindset about Land and Mines I feel sorry for them cause the generation of negotiators is now in the endangered species phase and the future leaders of this country will not settle for crumbs while they are the ones who bake the bread. They can attempt to discredit the future leadership with cheap media stunts but they will never destroy the vision and ideal of equal wealth which was blatantly ignored during CODESA.
If Apartheid/Collonialism was any good for South Africa the present government would not need to build any infrustructure and the majority of our wealth would be channelled into making the future citizens of this country more educated and self sufficient. Yet after seventeen years the government is still busy with provisioning of basic services like Water, Electricity, Housing, Schools, Clinics, Roads, Community Halls, Sanitation. I don't even think that if any white dominated government can take over this country tomorrow they will continue providing all those services.
I hate to think about the number of black faces that I see everytime I enter the chain stores like Pick n' Pay, Shoprite, Spar, Checkers, Pep Stores, Ackermans the list is endless but yet you will never find those stores placed anywhere in our rural areas where the vast majority of this country's poor people live. Rural communities have to spend their little hard earned money on transportation first before they can start feeding themselves cause all the resources have been strategically placed far from their reach to ensure that their money is exhausted before they can enjoy it.
Old and sick black people are paid the same amounts in social grants as their white counterparts yet white people can walk to the Malls while old black people are expected to ride to the cities in taxis, buses and trains where their money is reduced to peanuts before they can buy basic food stuffs.
Farms workers are the worst in this situation, they are the people who feed this nation and yet they are the most underpaid people cause the farm owners pocket the majority of the earnings and let their employees live in poverty. Farm workers are not afforded any opportunities in terms of aquiring skills which leaves them at the mercy of their employers for the rest of their lives because they cannot be empoyed at any other place without education or qualifications. This leads to generations and generations of farm employees working for a single family which gets wealthier and weathier while they become poorer and poorer and end up evicted from the farm when the next generation of owners turn their farms into hospitality establishments and leave the families homeless and poor.
We all know that white people were given land by the government free of charge after WWII and during Apartheid era with their force removals and Group Areas Act.
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