EUSEBIUS MCKAISER | Dear white South Africans (and Herman Mashaba)

You, as white South Africans, have been the biggest beneficiaries of race-based affirmative action in our country. We called the schemes from which you unfairly benefited ‘colonialism’ and ‘apartheid’.

17 October 2022 - 10:06

Let’s start off by immediately cutting to the myth of meritocracy. You, as white South Africans, have been the biggest beneficiaries of race-based affirmative action in our country. We called the schemes from which you unfairly benefited “colonialism” and “apartheid”...

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