Scanning through my e-mails the other day, I came across a News24 Breaking News Alert.
The Headline read "Pay disparities persist - Zuma" and that was followed by "Census 2011 results show the black majority remains worst affected by poverty, unemployment, and inequality, says President Jacob Zuma."
The Headline read "Pay disparities persist - Zuma" and that was followed by "Census 2011 results show the black majority remains worst affected by poverty, unemployment, and inequality, says President Jacob Zuma."
Now the actual article went on to tell about how census show that everyone in the country was earning more than the average black South African. I don't know about you, but when they did the recent census no one actually came to me to enquire about my life history, genetic background or annual income. I just got home one day and there was a sticker on my gate saying I'd been counted. And I've heard many similar stories. So I'm not even entirely sure how accurate the census was.
That being beside the point, what did catch my eye was the part where our dear president apparently said "black majority remains worst affected by poverty,
unemployment, and inequality".
Now this lead my mind back to the Woolworths issue not too long ago, where they were accused of employing too many black South Africans. And then my mind started to wander through all the so called inequality in the country. Don't get me wrong, I'll be the first one to shout the odds when things are unfair and inequality starts to run rampant (point in case my blog "System Error"). However I'd like to point out to the some 50 million South Africans out there, of course the black majority is going to seemingly get the short end of every 'unfortunate stick' out there. That's just the nature of being the majority.
Now this lead my mind back to the Woolworths issue not too long ago, where they were accused of employing too many black South Africans. And then my mind started to wander through all the so called inequality in the country. Don't get me wrong, I'll be the first one to shout the odds when things are unfair and inequality starts to run rampant (point in case my blog "System Error"). However I'd like to point out to the some 50 million South Africans out there, of course the black majority is going to seemingly get the short end of every 'unfortunate stick' out there. That's just the nature of being the majority.
Example; unemployment. There are going to be more unemployed blacks purely because there are more blacks. Same goes for employment, there will be more employed blacks at any given time because the simple truth is, there are more blacks. Same goes for poverty, the ratio of impoverished blacks to impoverished anyone else will always lean to the blacks being in the "more" column. And the reason for that.....
There are, more than double the amount of "Africans" than there are white, coloured and Indian/Asian combined. This (in my opinion) is self explanatory.
I'm Just Sayin'
P.S
The table of information was obtained from here...
http://www.southafrica.info/about/people/population.htm#.UEmzKZYhx8E#ixzz25lvYKHja
| MID-YEAR POPULATION ESTIMATES 2011 | ||
| Population group | Number | % of total |
| African | 40 206 275 | 79.5% |
| White | 4 565 825 | 9.0% |
| Coloured | 4 539 790 | 9.0% |
| Indian/Asian | 1 274 867 | 2.5% |
| TOTAL | 50 586 757 | 100% |
There are, more than double the amount of "Africans" than there are white, coloured and Indian/Asian combined. This (in my opinion) is self explanatory.
I'm Just Sayin'
P.S
The table of information was obtained from here...
http://www.southafrica.info/about/people/population.htm#.UEmzKZYhx8E#ixzz25lvYKHja
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