TIISETSO MALOMA

Unfortunate or historically robbed. Where to?

Apartheid ended in 1994 apparently; some kept their wine farms and beach front houses; while some kept their Shacks in the Alexandra Townships (the less fortunate).

‘The less fortunate’; is a phrase often used referring the poor. To me unfortunate is an unplanned circumstance. While the poor in this country; are so because of the previously employed strategies of Apartheid and colonialism.

We (blacks) chose reconciliation without justice; which meant; starting from scratch. We mostly were uneducated; unemployed and unskilled. We are where now free participants in the South African economy.

Interventions like RDP; GEAR; affirmative action; BEE and etc, are/were awesome. Apartheid was well planned Read more