The stark warning came from former president FW de Klerk said at the launch of the Centre for Unity in Diversity. “We have to face the unpalatable fact that our present government has adopted policies that are consciously directed toward harming the core interests of a section of the South African population according to their race.”
News24 quotes De Klerk who criticised the government’s BBBEE and affirmative action policies, saying that they were incrementally limiting the economic and cultural space within which minorities can operate.
“The ultimate goal is a society in which land, jobs, power and wealth will be allocated according to racial compositions of the population. The lives of citizens will once again be determined by race not merit.”
De Klerk said this was bad news for minorities who comprise 26% of the population.
“Their share of the wealth, job and land will decline commensurately over the next 30 years. As the BBBEE noose tightens, it may become increasingly difficult for white South Africans to find employment… Inevitably, many will be forced to leave South Africa.”
He said there was a toxic argument, propagated by the current government, seeping into national discourse that whites have not atoned for their sins and all land was stolen from black people.
“That all of these propositions are either false of gross generalisations is neither here nor there. The problem is that they are being actively propagated by our present government and they are fervently believed particularly by government itself and the radicalised youth.”
