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S Africa: Affirmative action to blame for brain drain: IFP

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Original Post Date: 2007-02-27 Time: 00:00:00  Posted By: Jan

February 01, 2007, 14:00

Mangosuthu Buthelezi, the Inkatha Freedom Party leader, says government’s reckless implementation of the affirmative action policy was forcing many whites to leave the country, creating a skills shortage crisis.

Writing in his weekly letter, Buthelezi said white people need to be offered incentives in order for them to stay in the country. “We need to grant white South Africans a meaningful stake in the existing order. Not only does this make economic sense, it is also in line with our vision of a non-racial South Africa of the struggle days,” he said. The reason a majority of white people supported the then National Party’s referendum calling for an end to apartheid rule was because they believed they would have a place in the new South Africa, said Buthelezi.

“If the majority of white South Africans had envisaged in the early 1990s the way affirmative action and racial classification would come to dominate the post-apartheid labour market, few would have voted yes in Mr de Klerk’s watershed referendum on constitutional reform,” he said. The IFP, Buthelezi said, would be proposing a forum to explore ways of keeping whites in the country.

“My party proposes to hold a widely representative forum to look at why so many whites have left with their skills and what can be done to keep them and encourage those who have left to come back.” Buthelezi also criticised government’s Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP), saying it has failed to create jobs. He said the IFP has consistently pointed out that the EPWP can never be an unemployment panacea (for the simple reason that) it is not part of an open labour market and most of the working jobs created last only as long as the infrastructural programme that has prompted them. – Sapa

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