<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"><html><head><meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head><body><div dir="ltr" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;">Ek stem! Na twintig jaar moet die streep nou getrek word. Wanneer gaan ons almal deel van die demokrasie word?Almal mekaar met respek behandel en 'n eenheid van suksesvolle Suid Afrikaners word?</div><div>Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device</div><hr/><div><b>From: </b> "Chris" <chris@airphotoafrica.co.za>
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</div><div><b>Date: </b>Tue, 15 Apr 2014 14:28:53 +0200</div><div><b>To: </b>Africa local chapter discussions<africa@lists.osgeo.org></div><div><b>ReplyTo: </b> chris@airphotoafrica.co.za,
Africa local chapter discussions <africa@lists.osgeo.org>
</div><div><b>Subject: </b>Re: [OSGeo Africa] Job opportunities at DRDLR</div><div><br/></div>
<br/> Apologies to you Aslam ( and the list )<br/><br/> No-one else speaks up for us and so we have to do it ourselves<br/><br/><br/> The ad you have just placed is blatantly discriminatory and racist<br/> ( I would like to lodge a formal complaint )<br/><br/><br/> But seeing as you want to talk race lets look at the history.<br/><br/> How is it that White males are somehow invisible -- are we not Africans <br/> and South Africans.<br/><br/> Pieter Potter the first surveyor in Southern Africa 1657 ( surveyed the <br/> early plots of the " free-burghers" ) was a white person from Holland.<br/> and<br/> Although as far as I know people from the Asian sub-continent were <br/> present in the early Cape as slaves , the large scale immigration of <br/> "Indians" to South Africa only occourred in 1860 ( specifically in what <br/> was then Natal )<br/><br/> The early slave population at the Cape no longer exists as a distinct and <br/> separate demographic group -- unless one wants to speak of the "Cape <br/> Coloureds" but now we are getting into old regime race classification -- <br/> something the current government seems to be very good at emulating and <br/> which you have -- with your ad -- just propogated.<br/><br/> I hope you understand to what extent the dept RDLR is amiss in <br/> promulgating such a short sighted and RACIST policy !<br/><br/><br/> Chris<br/><br/><br/>On 15 Apr 2014 at 13:03, Aslam Parker wrote:<br/><br/> <br/>> DEPARTMENT OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND LAND REFORM<br/><br/>> NOTE : <br/>> Persons from the following groups are strongly encouraged to apply:<br/><br/>> Persons with appropriate disabilities, African Female and Male, Coloured<br/>> Female and Male, Indian Male. <br/><br/>_______________________________________________<br/>Africa mailing list<br/>Africa@lists.osgeo.org<br/>You can UNSUBSCRIBE at http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/africa<br/></body></html>