Not to flog a dead horse - but this is how race was determined in the heady days of apartheid. This was taken from Constitionally Speaking - which everyone should subscribe to.
The Population Registration Act 30 of 1950 required every South African to be classified in terms of race and these apartheid race categories included “african”, “white”, “coloured”, “other coloured” or “indian”.
The Act was amended often to try and make it more difficult to reclassify anyone as “white”, but the definitions used at one time included the following:
Although this Act was finally abolished in 1991,
- A white person is one who is in appearance obviously white — and not generally accepted as Coloured – or who is generally accepted as White – and is not obviously Non-White, provided that a person shall not be classified as a White person if one of his natural parents has been classified as a Coloured person or a Bantu…”
- “A Bantu is a person who is, or is generally accepted as, a member of any aboriginal race or tribe of Africa…”
- “A Coloured is a person who is not a White person or a Bantu…”
The Act was finally abolished in 1991.
And seeing that race is now VERY relevant we can only hope that level headed people like Trevor Manuel are able to keep our heads down and focus on the ultimate goal - and that has to be empowerment of the people. This is an excerpt from Trevor's letter to jungle jim
As a consequence of your behaviour, people like me ‐ in the ANC and in government, are being asked to explain what was in the mind of the drafters of the amendments to the Employment Equity Act. We were present at the point of the debate of the first Employment Equity Bill; we expressed a complete comfort with the assignment of 'designated groups' to include “black people” which means "Africans, Coloureds and Indians." because it served as a representation of our constitutionality and as the fruits of our struggle. When in your capacity as Chairperson of the Employment Equity Commission you made strange utterances that sought to carve away at the basic premise of the Employment Equity Act, we should have been more vigilant. The just and constitutionally obligated provisions for redress are not and can never be an excuse to perpetuate racism.
Not to flog a dead horse - but this is how race was determined in the heady days of apartheid. This was taken from Constitionally Speaking - which everyone should subscribe to.
The Population Registration Act 30 of 1950 required every South African to be classified in terms of race and these apartheid race categories included “african”, “white”, “coloured”, “other coloured” or “indian”.
The Act was amended often to try and make it more difficult to reclassify anyone as “white”, but the definitions used at one time included the following:
Although this Act was finally abolished in 1991,
- A white person is one who is in appearance obviously white — and not generally accepted as Coloured – or who is generally accepted as White – and is not obviously Non-White, provided that a person shall not be classified as a White person if one of his natural parents has been classified as a Coloured person or a Bantu…”
- “A Bantu is a person who is, or is generally accepted as, a member of any aboriginal race or tribe of Africa…”
- “A Coloured is a person who is not a White person or a Bantu…”
The Act was finally abolished in 1991.
And seeing that race is now VERY relevant we can only hope that level headed people like Trevor Manuel are able to keep our heads down and focus on the ultimate goal - and that has to be empowerment of the people. This is an excerpt from Trevor's letter to jungle jim
As a consequence of your behaviour, people like me ‐ in the ANC and in government, are being asked to explain what was in the mind of the drafters of the amendments to the Employment Equity Act. We were present at the point of the debate of the first Employment Equity Bill; we expressed a complete comfort with the assignment of 'designated groups' to include “black people” which means "Africans, Coloureds and Indians." because it served as a representation of our constitutionality and as the fruits of our struggle. When in your capacity as Chairperson of the Employment Equity Commission you made strange utterances that sought to carve away at the basic premise of the Employment Equity Act, we should have been more vigilant. The just and constitutionally obligated provisions for redress are not and can never be an excuse to perpetuate racism.
Did I not suggest that jungle would ultimately hang himself. I am now even more convinced that he will. Y'see no one (except for a few mense in power) likes him. We all know that he is
Now jungle's racism is nothing unique - as it turns out he got all his great ideas from grand apartheid.
Our zero went on TV (last year and not in his current position) and told Freek that the coloureds were over concentrated in the western Cape.
"I think its very important for coloured people in this country to understand that South Africa belongs to them in totality, not just the Western Cape.
"So this over-concentration of coloureds in the Western Cape is not working for them.
Wasn't apartheid rather like this, or the Indian Reservations in the USA? A certain race is in a certain place and you don't want them there - easy, move them. Only jungle tries to couch this in some sort of economic necessity (I'm not going to point out his stunning grammatical foute - feel free to observe these yourself)
There's a requirement of coloureds in Limpopo, there's a requirement of coloureds everywhere else in the country.
And how do you solve this, jungle style.
"They should spread in the rest of the country ... so they must stop this over-concentration situation because they are in over-supply where they are so you must look into the country and see where you can meet the supply."
My oh my (actually I really wanted to write MY FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
I'm no Pierre de Vos so I'll limit my Constitutional comments to section 21
Freedom of movement and residence
- Everyone has the right to freedom of movement.
- Everyone has the right to leave the Republic.
- Every citizen has the right to enter, to remain in and to reside anywhere in, the Republic.
- Every citizen has the right to a passport.
Oh jungle will argue that it is racists who made them stay there and now they should move. But the informed few will once again sigh deeply and look away in embarrassment. However we are in for a very humorous ride with him the official mouthpiece of the government - as if Zumachine Gatdoesn't have enough problems on his hands, and it's an election year).
If you don't believe me then watch below (better hurry before the Zumatics take it down).
jungle's defence to this.
"This was the BMF position. I have no feelings on any issue. I speak as BMF chairman or as the government spokesman,"
How on earth can either of these two (caring and competent) institutions have such a ........... speaking for them?
Well, well, well, Zoomachine Gun shows a little mettle and we get a new cabinet. Can't say I thought much of Nyanda anyway. What is interesting though is that Mdladlana has been replaced as minister of labour by Mildred Oliphant. We all know that jungle was booted out of Mdladlana's ministry, but we don't really know why. And jungle is starting to get vociferous again, although he is saying nothing new or significant as usual. Does this now mean that jungle is going back to the labour department? Could the "concerned BMF ex-presidents" be actually working in cahoots with Manyi (manzi really) so that he can go back to his calling to root out racism in the private sector. Think about it, one of the biggest concerns was that jungle was conflicted as a government employee and the chairman of the bee-em-EFF. Get rid of him and then he can go back to his old job. Maybe not.
jungle's diatribe on industry charters is at least four years old (like almost everything that comes out of his mouth), no one listened then. However there is slight merit to what he says. The construction charter has some serious flaws and the transport charter is lacking in vital definitions (I haven't read the property charter yet). Most other charters are very close to the DTI's codes anyway. But the FSC is the most unique document we have - take that away and the financial sector can go for the highest score without providing a single financial product to the un-banked.
