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  • The Problem With Employing Whites – A Brilliant Open Letter From The National Employers’ Association Chief Exec To The Labour Minister

    05 May 2016 by Sloane Hunter in Business, Opinion, Politics, South Africa
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    Incase you missed it, Gerhard Papenfus, the chief executive of the National Employers’ Association of South Africa (NEASA), wrote an open letter to Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant.

    White tears? Probably, but he has a point.

    You see, Mildred is on a mission to make every aspect of South Africa’s business environment reflective of the country’s demographics. And while people of colour start a war against white privilege, white people have become the target of blame for everything wrong in the world.

    While there is definitely a point in that blame, one would think the ANC has only just come into governance the way they are talking.

    Let’s see what Papenfus had to say:

    Dear Minister

    Since I am “white”, I take note when you talk so boldly about “whites” being the stumbling block in terms of your transformation agenda. I write this letter to you in order to get clarity.

    According to your Party’s National Democratic Revolution (NDR), the eventual target of your “transformation” policies is that every facet of the South African society (people in employment, ownership of business, participation in sports teams, shares on the JSE, education, the list goes on and on), must reflect the demographical composition of the South African society – approximately 80 percent black, 10 percent white, 8 percent coloured and 2 percent Indian. Hard work and skills are no longer the criteria; just the colour of the skin. Quality is sacrificed in an obsessive pursuit of quotas on the basis of skin colour. Total madness! However, you Minister, and your colleagues are pursuing these ideals, bit by bit, in every area and in every piece of legislation.

    Minister, since the NDR envisages a “seamless transition”, you have to pursue this destructive path, and the current status and intensity of all transformational legislation is therefore merely an interim arrangement in your attempt to achieve your ideological version of a transformed society. The term “seamless transition” implies that you will never achieve it (even Hitler could not achieve it), but you will not stop trying, turning on the screws as you are failing, while systematically breaking down the economy.

    You are obviously frustrated by the lack of progress, measured against your ideas and the ideals of the NDR. Therefore Minister, you need to give us, employers, some clarity as to how you want us to implement your plan, seeing that you have given us six months to rectify the “situation”, failing which, according to you, we will “face the full might of the law”.

    Read the rest of the letter HERE.

    [source: iol]

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