Posted on 10/02/2006 9:17:30 PM PDT by johnwayne
Johannesburg - One million white South Africans - almost a fifth - have left the country in the past ten years.
This figure was released last week in a report from the South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR).
Frans Cronjé, who compiled the report, said it was especially crime and affirmative action which had driven a fifth of South Africa's white population out of the country.
He did an analysis of Statistics South Africa's Household Surveys between 1995 and 2005, emigration figures and other reliable estimates on population numbers.
Cronjé said the results left himself and his colleagues dumbfounded.
"When we drew the graphs we saw that almost a whole generation of white South Africans are not here anymore."
Young people, children leaving
The SAIRR's population pyramid of white South Africans show a definite loss of young people and children under the age of ten.
The figures for 2005 put the number of white South Africans in the country at 4.3 million, 841 000 fewer than the 5.2 million of 1995.
Cronjé predicts that the white population would continue to shrink, and, he said, the situation would have a far-reaching impact on the economy.
"The white population is getting older, which means the white taxpayers are only going to contribute to the economy for the next twenty years. There would have to be a huge influx of skilled workers to fill this gap. This, unfortunately, is not the case."
Due to the inequalities of the past, the education of most of the black children is still not on par to fill these gaps.
Last year, for example, only 3 000 black learners passed matric with higher grade mathematics, said Cronjé.
Economically productive
Most of the white emigrants are economically productive people, said Marco Macfarlane, co-author of the report.
However, in the last decade the black economically productive population grew by 81%. Some of these people have slot into the high-income group, where black people make up a third of the top earners.
Whites, however, still account for half of this group, where Indians and coloureds make up 7% and 6% of the high-income group respectively.
The rest of the black entrants to the labour market are busy in the informal sector, which do not necessarily contribute to the tax income.
"Black people are entering the economy at a stiff pace, but of the economically active middle class (the country's biggest tax contributors), blacks only account for 1%."
Macfarlane said crime and affirmative action are the top reasons for the exodus of whites.
More whites going to leave
"And because the crime figures are not going to decline rapidly and affirmative action is to continue, more whites are going to leave.
"The young people reckon they are being punished for what happened in the previous dispensation. They are furious, because they feel they had no part in it," said Macfarlane.
According to the report the emigrants are between 20 and 40 years old.
"This is the group that have children and help grow the population, but now they're getting their children overseas. And they don't come back. That means the white population is going to continue to shrink."
The decline in the white population in the decade to 2005 is estimated at 16.1%.
I noticed that line too. We are still being blamed in America so I don't doubt it will be an infinite blame game in SA too.
Through a relative I met a woman from South Africa. I haven't talked to her much but she says the crime in South Africa is horrible. She seems very happy to be over here, but I'm sure she misses her family over there. She has South African friends all over--Europe and Australia. I can't blame them for getting out.
Well for some. Probably the South Africans are gone over with a fine tooth comb.
I can't recall the name of the post because it was several years ago now, but some FReeper posted a link to some of the most horrific pictures of killings in Africa. Some of it was black on white. Even children and babies. Very distrubing. Al Qaeda almost has a monopoly on barbarism but not quite.
Could happen in the US unless something happens to end affirmative discrimination action sometime soon.
Yes they are. We hire white South Africans and have to go through a lot of paperwork to get them over here for 9 months. They have to go back for three months and then we try to get them back. However the greatest impediment are our consulates in S.A.. After about three years they won't allow them to come back. Our government is afraid they will stay here. They are good workers, speak english and are intelligent. They say it is getting worse back in S.A.
Bingo! The Chinese will come in to Africa in a serious way in the next two decades and pick up all the pieces. In fifty years, Africa will be, for all practical purposes, a Chinese colony.
I suspected that to be the case. What a mess!
"I predict"
However, the mom said that "Affirmative Action" is precisely why they will never go back. She said it's really something to deal with a bank managed by somebody without an education, but whose skin happens to be the right color.
Will it be called Apartied when the chinese own all of the industries and employ private police forces? Will the world care when the yellow nibbles up the black? I guess...not. The EU will be beset by muslims by then. And we...I don't quite know, but I do know our libs won't give a fig what goes on in Africa by then.
So it's like Detroit?
SA had a vibrant Jewish community at one time...but they left, the brain drain started many years ago.
Well, when it concerns Africa it is a good and politically correct thing to do to whites.
Please translate this if you know what it means or anyone else who might now.
I found the thread. WARNING TO ALL: THESE IMAGES ARE EXTREMELY GRAPHIC/DISTURBING. I can definitely understand why people would want to leave (understatement of the year).
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/977731/posts
http://WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org/photos16.asp
South Africa ping.
It means:
"If you love your children, you'll hit the road. The quicker, the better."
I am one of those white South Africans who left, six years ago, and for the reasons mentioned. Getting prevented from reaching the top in big companies despite being well-qualified, and getting shot at in our own home is no way to raise my children. I hope they were young enough when we arrived in the USA so that they will see themselves as Americans.
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