Hello,
Tesame met die skrywe is die artikel soos dit in die Beeld rapporteer ook gestuur. Hierdie brief verwys na die berig soos dit verskyn het op die BBC se webwerf.
Die artikel van die BBC kan hier gevind word:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22554709
Who is poor in South Africa?
· Average annual black income in 2011: $2,300
· Mixed-race (coloured): $4,300
· Asian: $7.700
· White: $17,500
Source: South African Institute of Race Relations
Die inleiding van die artikel begin soos verwag kan word:
Apartheid South Africa looked after white people and nobody else. Now some of its white communities face a level of deprivation, or of violence, which threatens their future in the country. Everyone here, regardless of colour, tells you that white people are still riding high. They run the economy. They have a disproportionate amount of influence in politics and the media. They still have the best houses and most of the best jobs.
All of this is true but it is not the only picture.
Wanneer dieper gedelf word dan vind John Simpson die volgende:
Working-class white people, most of them Afrikaans-speakers, are going through an intense crisis. But you will not read about it in the newspapers or see it reported on television because their plight seems to be something arising out of South Africa's bad old past - a past which everyone, black and white, would like to forget. According to one leading political activist, Mandla Nyaqela, this is the after-effect of the huge degree of selfishness and brutality which was shown towards the black population under apartheid. "It is having its effect on whites today, even though they still own a share of South Africa's wealth which is entirely disproportionate," he said.
Ernst Roets van Afriforum lewer repliek soos volg:
Ernst Roets, a leading Afrikaans campaigner from the AfriForum organisation, took me to a squatter camp outside the country's capital, Pretoria. A white squatter camp. It has been set up on the property of a sympathetic white farmer and is called, optimistically, Sonskyn Hoekie - Sunshine Corner. There are broken-down cars and bits of discarded furniture everywhere. Beyond the wooden shacks lie ditches and pools of dirty, stagnant water where mosquitoes breed. Two basic toilets serve the whole camp. According to Roets there are 80 white squatter camps - many of them bigger than this - in the Pretoria area alone. Across South Africa as a whole he believes there could be as many as 400,000 poor whites in conditions like these.
Dit waarna Jan Rap so lank voor pleit het ook uiteindelik aandag en het Jan Rap se betoog sonder twyfel my ondersteuning:
There is another group of white Afrikaners, far higher up the social scale, who are deeply threatened - in this case, literally. Virtually every week the press here report the murders of white farmers, though you will not hear much about it in the media outside South Africa. In South Africa you are twice as likely to be murdered if you are a white farmer than if you are a police officer - and the police here have a particularly dangerous life. The killings of farmers are often particularly brutal.
Die artikel sluit af soos volg:
There used to be 60,000 white farmers in South Africa. In 20 years that number has halved. In the old days, the apartheid system looked after whites and did very little for anyone else. Nowadays white people here are on their own. Those who fit in and succeed will certainly have a future. As for the rest, there are no guarantees whatsoever.
Baie dankie
Wouter