After the end of South Africa’s policy of Apartheid, one would have thought that laws sorting people by race would be a thing of the past, right? Well, think again. As the Institute for Race Relations points out, from 1910 to the present 314 racial acts have been passed by their parliament. However, 117 of those acts have been adopted since 1994, and 141 racial acts are operative today.
Almost immediately [after 1994], however, the government began (re)enacting race law and pursuing racial policy. The two most notable instances of this are the 1998 Employment Equity Act and the 2003 Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Act. Various other pieces of legislation exist among dozens of charters, plans, regulations, directives, notices, and policies that attempt to regulate aspects of society along racial lines and racialise commerce.
I am sick of racial issues … really sick of it. Really really sick of it.
South Africa is the new center for race biology.
So Apartheid never ended, it just got new management.
New and Worse management.
Same as Rhodesia…
Yes indeed. I received more education about this through fellow diplomats posted to NY. We were friends, both raising a young child. Eventually, we did discuss apartheid over dinner. As most Canadians, we were against, but our friends opened our eyes further.
20 years on, what concerned them then, now has happened.
I am sick of race issues too.
We practice apartheid in Canada and do so proudly with media headlines announcing it almost every day.
It’s called UNDRIP, and B.C. is a recent signatory to it.
The Central Intelligence Committee of the PRC has a different name for it, 成功. Success!
Yes. Do we have to live with old British and Canadian treaties forever? Most status indians on reserves do not own their homes and are ruled by their own management and the feds, with generous payouts from taxpayers.
Quite a few were immigrants in 1600 on, not aboriginals.
as long as the recognize Elon Musk as the most successful AfroAmerican ever .