<div dir="ltr">Loud yawn! The reality is that white people still dominate in positions of academic selection. Send your CV in Chris, chances are a white bloke is going to have to be employed as usual. If not, hats off to the person who had the guts to succeed despite our historically racist education system.<br>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>Other Chris<br></div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 15 April 2014 14:25, Wilma Nel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nelw@mogalakwena.gov.za" target="_blank">nelw@mogalakwena.gov.za</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
HEAR HEAR!!! I AGREE 100%<br>
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Sent: 15 April 2014 02:29 PM<br>
To: Africa local chapter discussions<br>
Subject: Re: [OSGeo Africa] Job opportunities at DRDLR<br>
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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>
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The ad you have just placed is blatantly discriminatory and racist<br>
( I would like to lodge a formal complaint )<br>
<br>
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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<br>
Africans<br>
and South Africans.<br>
<br>
Pieter Potter the first surveyor in Southern Africa 1657 ( surveyed<br>
the<br>
early plots of the " free-burghers" ) was a white person from<br>
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<br>
of<br>
"Indians" to South Africa only occourred in 1860 ( specifically in<br>
what<br>
was then Natal )<br>
<br>
The early slave population at the Cape no longer exists as a<br>
distinct and<br>
separate demographic group -- unless one wants to speak of the "Cape<br>
<br>
Coloureds" but now we are getting into old regime race<br>
classification --<br>
something the current government seems to be very good at emulating<br>
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>
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<br>
Chris<br>
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On 15 Apr 2014 at 13:03, Aslam Parker wrote:<br>
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> DEPARTMENT OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND LAND REFORM<br>
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> NOTE :<br>
> Persons from the following groups are strongly encouraged to apply:<br>
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> Persons with appropriate disabilities, African Female and Male,<br>
Coloured<br>
> Female and Male, Indian Male.<br>
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