THOSE OPPOSED TO THE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION THEY THEMSELVES ARE BENEFICIARIES !

 THOSE OPPOSED TO THE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION THEY THEMSELVES ARE BENEFICIARIES!.

The people who gave been making noise against the Affirmative Action in South Africa as one of the legislative frameworks to redress the injustices of the past, they themselves are the beneficiaries of the legislation which was aimed at privileging them over other groups. The people in question are the White settlers who through Colonialism and Apartheid enacted a number of laws as part of their evil plan to reduced the natives(Afrikans) into subhumans . One of the laws the Colonial and Apartheid regime enacted is the Job Reservation Act of 1926. This Act known as the Job Reservation is one means by which the South African government (under the apartheid system of maintaining  white supremacy at the cost of the Black majority) limited job opportunities for Blacks by prohibiting the replacement of workers of one race; by compelling employers to maintain a fixed percentage of workers of a particular race. It was aimed at reserving any class of specific jobs or work generally for members of a specific race; and by fixing maximum, or average numbers  or percentages of persons of a specified race who may be employed in any factory or industry or other places of employment. These restrictions were applied under Section 77 of the Industrial Conciliation Act of 1956; all but five were abolished in 1977, but this had little effect as the general colour bar based on long-standing attitudes and attitudes was underpinned by formal closed shop agreements between white trade unions and major companies.

With the 1994 breakthrough the Democratic government had to enact laws and the legislation to redress the injustices caused by laws such as the Job Reservation Act. If the Job Reservation Act is an thesis then the Affirmative Action is an anti-thesis which will issue an synthesis. Now we are seated with a situation whereby the beneficiaries of the Job Reservation Act and other laws which were enacted to exclude the natives who by the way are the real owners of this country, are making the loudest noise complaining about the Affirmative Action. They are quick to forget that all that they have and own has nothing to do with their intelligence or being hard workers but rather they benefited from the Colonialism and Apartheid laws which made sure there was no competition from the Black majority. No sphere of our life was sparred from this evil plan, the evil plan went as as far as the Education system as the Colonial and Apartheid regime enacted laws which prevented the Natives from doing certain subjects such as Mathematics and Science. The deliberate and desperate attempts by the Colonial and Apartheid government is proof of the inferiority of the Whites, I mean if the Whites are as superior as they claim then they wouldn't have had to enact laws to suppress the natives, why would you want to suppress someone who is inherently  inferior to you?.

The likes of the Democratic Alliance which is political praxis of the privileged white minority is the one leading the assault against progressive legislation such as the Affirmative Action. This action by those leading the charge against the Affirmative Action is a clear indication of which interests they represent and seek to continue defending. It is upon the Natives of this land to defend legislation such as the Affirmative Action against the beneficiaries of Colonialism and Apartheid. This ought to be explained in clear terms to Black people.

By 

Teboho Sekhosana

Political and Social Activist

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