South Africa has a large and vibrant Black middle class now and a large group of poor whites which did not exist 20 years ago. Do you think the slums are going to be wiped clean in decade in a developing country? Why hasn't Brazil gotten rid of the favelas? The reality is Blacks are the overwhelming majority of South Africa so they will also be the largest poor and disenfranchised group proportionate to their percentage in the country. If the townships exist and Blacks are almost all the people there, then it doesn't mean Blacks have not been empowered but simply they are still the largest poor proportionate to their population in the country.it is true that SA is the leading economy of subsaharan Africa, yet 20 years after the fall of aparthied, most blacks live in townships worst than the Slums of Nairobe while the Afrikaners continue to control the country politically, economy, and most importantly militarily.
Nelson Mendala is truely a great man unfortunately most of his people are uneducated, dirt poor, HIV infested Barbarians who are so impotent that they only way they know how to channel thier frustrations is by attacking migrant for kicks, and we all know their favorite targets don't we.
I have seen South Africa and I have the biggest respect for the Black South African leadership for their intelligence, education, and strategies. These are men who fought 70 years against Apartheid, men who had 70 years to think about what would come after the end of Apartheid and after the end when it could have been so easy to become radical and get back at the whites like Mugabe did, the Blacks continued to let the economy be as it was but slowly overtime started empowering their people?
For example, do you know what affirmative action is? Do you know all South African companies...forget about schools, and public insitutions, but private companies cannot invest in and cannot exist in and cannot deal or work in South Africa without subscribing to the government affirmative action programme where Blacks have to be the certain level of executive leadership as well as the workers. Such programs like this have lead to many opportunities for Blacks and while it is true the Whites as the minority group still have majority control of the economy this is changing, as much has already changed. Recently the South African president who released Mandela and turned power over, Fw De Clerk said the Afrikaner ruling national party would never have turned over power to a new constitution if they knew the ANC would implement such policies.
Something is going right if I say so.
BTW Somalis have got to stop thinking of themselves as the center of the universe. Somalis are not big in south Africa and 5 crimes in as much as months apart in the townships is not very visible or that remarkable. It is the Zimbabweans who really face zenophobia in South Africa because the poor don't want other poor, especially neighbors who will keep coming, to come and try to share their meager resources to them. Couple of bandits and assorted slum criminals going after foreigners like Somalis who come and disenfranchise them economically in the middle of their slums is not representative of South Africa and its people not consumes the time and attention of so many millions and millions of South Africans as you would wish.
