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Original Post Date: 2004-03-02 Posted By: Jan
From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 3/2/2004 2:04:04 PM
S.Africa: Afrikaners & Zulus agree on Affirmative Action
[The IFP is a political party dominated by Zulus. Solidarity is a “Free Markert” trade union dominated and run by Afrikaners. One can negotiate with the IFP because they are reasonable. One cannot do the same with the ANC. They can’t be trusted. Jan]
Pretoria – The plight of white South Africans feeling the pressure of affirmative action was taken up on Tuesday by a seemingly unlikely benefactor in the form of the Inkatha Freedom Party.
Signing an accord with labour union Solidarity on non-discriminatory affirmative action, IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi said the absolute exclusion of whites from appointment and promotion opportunities should be avoided.
He expressed distress about white school achievers being denied bursaries on account of their skin colour, and said race should never become a determining factor in retrenchment.
“A country which allows this type of behaviour is not what I have fought for during 50 years of liberation struggle,” Buthelezi said in Pretoria.
“I have known all my life what it is like to be treated as a second-rate citizen… merely on account of the pigmentation of my skin, and I would not wish the same destiny on any other fellow South African.”
The accord, signed by Buthelezi and Solidarity chief executive officer Flip Buys after two years of discussions, was aimed at developing a new code of good employment practice to which all South African employers would be bound.
The parties agreed that affirmative action was necessary to rectify past wrongs but should not be allowed to create new inequities.
Solidarity hoped to get more parties behind the accord in an “equality alliance”, said spokesman Dirk Hermann.
The code should eventually become part of labour legislation — hopefully by the beginning of next year.
Talks have also been held with the government, the ruling African National Congress, other labour bodies like the Congress of SA Trade Unions, the SA Communist Party, and the business sector.
According to Buys, at least three more political parties were expected to lend their support to the effort in the next “month or three”.
He said the process was aimed at “making South Africa a country for all who live in it – black and white”.
“The racism of the past and the negative consequences thereof must be corrected, but this will make no sense if new forms of racism are created.”
Merely replacing whites faces with black ones was not only discriminatory, but also prejudicial to the country in terms of a loss of know-how and experience, Buys said.
“This is an important step forward in developing a new consensus, not about the principle, but about its fair implementation.”
Buthelezi criticised those who chose to ignore the unintended consequences of affirmative action.
“… there are people who are willing to close their eyes to the problems arising out of our polices, because what they see would force them to say things which are politically incorrect.”
A working committee has been set up between the IFP and Solidarity to work out the details of the proposed code of good practice.
Edited by Tisha Steyn
Source: NEWS24.COM
URL: http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/Ele…br>