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Original Post Date: 2008-01-17 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Adriana
Unemployment among Afrikaners has increased by 200% since 1994 — and between 10% to 12% of the Afrikaners were by 2001 on incomes well below the breadline, with some 1-million Afrikaners totally destitute by 2007.
White poverty is often ‘hidden’ because it manifests differently than the highly-visible poverty in black squatter camps.
Poor-whites are deeply ashamed of their poverty and hide behind fences, in backyard shanties, garages, caravan parks and other meagre housing.
This was said by Flip Buys of the trade union Solidarity.
“There’s a much greater stigma attached to poverty among whites and they hide it”.
STATISTICS-SA noted in 2002 that unemployment among ‘whites’ had increased dramatically with 197% between 1995 to 2001, leaving hundreds of thousands of Afrikaners permanently unemployable and destitute.
“Because of the high visibility of black poverty, the poor white problem does not draw much attention,’ says Solidarity’s spokesman. “There still remains these strong perceptions that all whites are wealthy and black people are poor.
“Afrikaner poverty is much more difficult to see. Instead of living in large squatter camps, they hide their ‘newly poor’ status.’
It is socially-unacceptable for Afrikaners to be poor and unemployed:
“People will write that they are ‘marketers’ or ‘consultants’ on their census-forms rather than admitting that they are unemployed.
“previously, Afrikaners could still access bursaries, education and advancement.
“Now with black-economic-empowerment laws, these rights have been barred to Afrikaner whites.
“They now find themselves in a dilemma in which their career-advancement stagnates and their children can’t find bursaries and jobs because they are white.’
Solidarity has set up a Bursary programme to try and alleviate this problem for Afrikaner youths.
http://www.beursweb.co.za/?page_id=4
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SA: POOR WHITES WHO LIVE IN TREES, BUSSES…
To illustrate Solidarity’s claim that Afrikaners hide their poverty, I am also republishing a summary of an earlier photo-reportage about the ‘poor white’ problem in South Africa on African Crisis.
“POOR WHITES WHO LIVE IN TREES, BUSSES:”
“This photo page was born out of a charity drive I did some time ago which someone else suggested. It is my little investigation of white poverty in South Africa.
What kicked it off was the assertion by a lady friend of mine that there were “white squatter camps” in South Africa.
I was not satisfied that the people we were helping were the ‘truly poor,’ so I spent one Saturday afternoon and a Sunday morning driving around to find poor whites to see what state they were in.
The result is, for me, quite a fascinating little story, a side of South Africa I don’t think anyone ever looks at.
The most amazing story of white poverty I came across occurred some months back when on SABC TV News they showed how a down and out white man and his family were living in a tree!
They had film footage of this middle-aged man who had no job. He went around rummaging in bins for food.
From the trash he found he began building a massive tree-house for his family.
His entire family lived in a big tree. The tree house was huge and there was a ladder leading up into it.
It was actually quite an amazing thing to see. They interviewed him on TV and this caused his long-lost sister to recognise him and they were united.
In my little sojurn, I did not find whites living in trees, but I did find a woman who lived in a bus – and was running a soup-kitchen for empoverished Afrikaner children from it.
I also came upon another tragedy in which some poor Afrikaner children were burned to death.
GOD’S ACRE – A PRIVATE MISSION:
South African charities are a mess.
Since 1994, when the new government took over with its socialist tendencies, they have screwed up charities in South Africa.
This socialism has damaged the economy so much that charities have suffered a lot.
Since the government now taxes businesses and whites to death, these people have subsequently had to cut back on their donations to the needy.
So charities across the board have suffered. Even the SPCA lives on the brink.
The new government also introduced a strange law which opens up charities to lots of abuse.
Charities in South Africa no longer need to be registered.
Anyone can, at the drop of a hat, declare himself a charity and begin collecting money.
This means of course that scams abound.
Even in the days of registered charities there was corruption and problems.
The present government is really only concerned with the blacks and most of the money goes there.
It doesn’t mean much because on the other hand they have stuffed up the economy and lots of blacks have lost jobs which they used to have under white rule.
I learned that most down and out whites end up in the hands of “Missions”.
There are well over 5,000 of these privately-run missions in South Africa.
They are privately run and have very Christian names (e.g. God’s Acre, The Manger, etc).
But some of the people who run these themselves cash in on the poverty of others.
They use the donations to line their own pockets. I heard horrific stories.
So the first thing to understand is that these missions are not always the most reliable of places.
But, having said that, they actually serve a genuine function and are, for many people, the only hope.
I was taken to one such mission called “God’s Acre”.
Note: I was told that God’s Acre is one of the better places and that the woman who runs it is honest.
This miserable little thatched roof house is “God’s Acre”.
http://www.africancrisis.org/images/ws0028.jpg
Note that there are several people living in the house, each with a room to themselves.
http://www.africancrisis.org/images/ws0027.jpg
Mr Greyling talking to the two ladies who run “God’s Acre”.
http://www.africancrisis.org/images/ws0027.jpg
In this photo you can see small buildings where white people are housed.
I think this one was empty at the time I was there. I did not take a closer look.
http://www.africancrisis.org/images/ws0029.jpg
This pathetic little grave contains the bodies of 3 small white children who burnt to death when a candle fell over in one of the little shack-like buildings (like in the above photo). The little building caught fire. There were 4 children in the room and the mother ran into the flames and managed to save one little boy. Behind the grave is a little vegetable garden.
URL: http://www.africancrisis.org/images/ws0030.jp…br>My (rather crooked), red arrow points to the concrete floor where the little building was where the 3 children burnt to death.
The lady who runs the place gave me a document they got from the municipality ordering them to destroy the little buildings on their property (some of which have white people living in them).
These little buildings contravene the building laws.
But, the blacks who live nearby can build any illegal building they want and no action is taken against them.
http://www.africancrisis.org/images/ws0032.jpg
Far in the distance you can see a black squatter camp with buildings at the foot of a mine dump.
(You can see a white commercial farmer’s field in the foreground).
This is a few kilometres from “God’s Acre”.
These blacks are allowed to build and live in their shacks without having the municipality telling them to break down their illegal structures.
http://www.africancrisis.org/images/ws0036.jpg
These two barefoot little Afrikaner children wanted to be photographed at the squatter camp.
They posed in front of another small building inhabited by someone.
The little boy on the right was the one who survived the fire where the other children had died. Apparently he was blind for 6 months afterwards.
URL: http://www.africancrisis.org/images/ws0034.jp…br>
The miserable little building on the left, with a green and white wall, is where “Uncle Kobie” and “the murderer” live.
Look at the windows, you will see how dark it is inside
http://www.africancrisis.org/images/ws0031.jpg
You can see a green door to the left leading to another shack/room.
The entrance to Uncle Kobie’s room lies on the left where the red arrow is.
http://www.africancrisis.org/images/ws0042.jpg
Here you see the entrance to Uncle Kobie’s shack. You can see clearly, from this angle how dark it is inside.
Then look in the next photo where you will see just inside the doorway, to the left, of this dark little shack is their “dining room”.
http://www.africancrisis.org/images/ws0043.jpg
This little “table” and chair are the “dining room” for Uncle Kobie and the other man.
It lies just inside the shack-like entrance to their abode. You can see some plates there.
http://www.africancrisis.org/images/ws0035.jpg
This is Uncle Kobie. He lives in this little shack.
You can see his crutches next to him. As you can see from the previous photos they do not even have a proper door leading into their room.
It is now winter (you can see them wearing jerseys), and this camp is in a low-lying area. I’ll bet it gets very cold.
http://www.africancrisis.org/images/ws0039.jpg
This man lives with Uncle Kobie.
He said to me that he was charged with murder and then his family distanced themselves from him.
(It sounds suspiciously as if his family actually believe he committed the crime).
So I refer to him as “the murderer” because you never know – maybe he did do it?
Either way, he lives in this miserable place. He told me he was trying to make contact with his family again.
http://www.africancrisis.org/images/ws0040.jpg
Following also is a story by the now defunct Afrikaner Charity organisation:
http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2005/04/pitiful_state_o.php
Source: http://www.africancrisis.org/images/ws0040.jpg
