In the late eighties the Lefties in CA wanted to eliminate apartheid, and as a result of cutting off funds to SA, I had to close my manufacturing facility. At the time I had 130 people employed, with 8 “Africans” management training and positions and 8 in training for manufacturing work a total of 40 working in the plant. A car manufacturer had to close and layed off 3,000 of which 38% were Africans.
The place has gone down hill ever since. Look what is going on in Nigeria, Congo and the rest of the African governed places.
Having traveled to other parts of Africa (Kenya,Tanzania,Zambia and Malawi) far more recently I was struck by many things.Poverty,obviously...*real* poverty...orange hair,little stick legs and big swollen belly-type poverty.Chaos as well...and I also got the sense that if many of these people were somehow allowed into this country they'd do far,far better for themselves...work *much* harder than many of our minorities and a good percentage of our majority as well.
Yes I can well remember the promise South Africa ahead in the 80s. I also remember the responsibility that Ivy League schools had in promoting anti-apartheid. The country had far more promise then, then the deathspiral it is in now.
A lot of the original settlers were Dutch; the Boer War was fought to determine who would rule, and apartheid was to entice the Dutch to support the new mixed country.