Broad-Based Black Empowerment (BEE) is the South African Government’s set of policies intended to lift employment and business participation of previously disadvantaged communities. The strictly enforced policies have caused a huge number of problems for the country as a whole. People with few or no skills are now in key management positions and many are given jobs requiring skill sets that they simply do not have. One of the latest and perhaps cruelest outcomes of the BEE legislation is the cutting social development funding for any orphanages that are not 100% Black.

Until last year the ANC Government had a pro-rata calculation in place for orphanages if the number of black beneficiaries fell below 75 percent. Presumably this was not strict enough. There were still some abandoned and needy white children who were being given food and shelter thanks to private sector funds supplied to orphanages.

The past colour-based discrimination in South Africa has been recognized as being unfair and unacceptable but clearly there is no problem with the current discrimination against whites which, in many ways is far more draconian. To punish children, who are already extremely vulnerable by ensuring that they do not even receive food and shelter borders on barbaric. Hundreds of thousands of whites have been forced out of productive jobs under the BEE laws and they now eek out an existence in squatters camps. Families that were once able to care for themselves now beg for food and live in dilapidated tents and home-made shacks. Children and the elderly are especially at risk as they are extremely susceptible to hunger, disease and the elements. ANC legislation ensures that white squatters cannot receive food parcels even from not for profit organisations funded by private enterprise.

The world still screams about the hated Apartheid system which ended twenty years ago but there is a wall of silence on the inhumane ANC Government regulated treatment of the nation’s children who happen to be paler that the rest. These are children who have not even heard of Apartheid but are made to suffer in an ongoing government enforced retribution campaign.

 

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