I was in total agreement with Kenneth Mokgatlhe up to the line where he said the DA must embrace affirmative action (“The DA needs to face reality”, October 3).
As woke as this policy may be, it is fundamentally flawed and when race is the sole determinant of support to be provided, then it is racist and can never be endorsed. We need a new approach to uplifting the poor and the marginalised (regardless of race).
By sheer demographic numbers, the vast majority of recipients will be black, but not by skin colour selection. Racial classification is crude, lazy, apartheid-era thinking and must be relegated to the trash heap of history. We need to replace entitlement and victimhood with opportunity and merit.
Some will rise and some will fail. That’s life. But continuing a system that enriches connected cadres because of their skin colour is evil, corrupt and does nothing for the masses. It is the voting majority who must face reality, not the DA.
Michael Blain
Via BusinessLIVE
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