The South African government needs to “take a hard look” at its race-fuelled myopia and create the conditions that encouraged productive South Africans — including whites and minority groups — to stay and contribute to growth, says official opposition Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon.
In his regular online column on Friday, SA Today, Leon noted that the South African Institute of Race Relations had reported that about a fifth of white South Africans had left the country in the last 10 years and noted that “given a globalising world in which skilled individuals as well as capital investment are more mobile than ever before, and are maximizing their careers by moving elsewhere, government needs to take a hard look at its race-fuelled myopia, and create the conditions that encourage productive South Africans to stay and contribute to growth — which in the longer term is the only real answer to joblessness and poverty”.
The DA leader argued that “rather than discouraging these citizens from staying, moreover, the state should be actively and energetically soliciting the world’s very best practitioners in tackling the enormous problems that currently beset us in so many areas”.
All must be included and valued. He said: “In short: government needs to reassess its message so that all feel included and valued. Foot-dragging at best and vindictiveness at worst undermines all of our futures – most especially those South Africans for too long disadvantaged by our apartheid legacy and whose interests the ruling party professedly wants to advance.
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i want my race defined, i want it secured. I want my face respected and our women neglected, By you. You one sided, one colour. Can’t be one or the other, Just plain old old old sick and tired of you. Black and white. I am the future, i am the answer i’m not mixed i am what i choose. You don’t say the coloureds of africa its coloureds of south africa. it is me. I am coloured. There’s it. Take it, cut it, now eat it. I want my people to be respected and i want you to stay away from our women, extreme enough ? Who do you think you are, you came here naked like me and will leave here naked like me. So i’ll take what i can for my colour. Respect it.
the black elite are the new whites, nothings changed. We need coloured people running government.