[OSGeo Africa] Job opportunities at DRDLR

[Wilma Nel]

HEAR HEAR!!! I AGREE 100%

-----Original Message-----
From: africa-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:africa-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Chris
Sent: 15 April 2014 02:29 PM
To: Africa local chapter discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo Africa] Job opportunities at DRDLR


    Apologies to you Aslam ( and the list )

    No-one else speaks up for us and so we have to do it ourselves


    The ad you have just placed is blatantly discriminatory and racist
    ( I would like to lodge a formal complaint )


    But seeing as you want to talk race lets look at the history.

    How is it that White males are somehow invisible -- are we not
Africans 
    and South Africans.

    Pieter Potter the first surveyor in Southern Africa 1657 ( surveyed
the 
    early plots of the " free-burghers" )  was a white person from
Holland.
    and
    Although as far as I know people from the Asian sub-continent were 
    present in the early Cape as slaves  , the large scale immigration
of 
    "Indians" to South Africa only occourred in  1860 ( specifically in
what 
    was then Natal )

    The early slave population at the Cape no longer exists as a
distinct and 
    separate demographic group -- unless one wants to speak of the "Cape

    Coloureds"  but now we are getting into old regime race
classification -- 
    something the current government seems to be very good at emulating
and 
    which you have -- with your ad -- just propogated.

    I hope you understand to what extent the dept RDLR is amiss in 
    promulgating such a short sighted  and RACIST policy !


    Chris


On 15 Apr 2014 at 13:03, Aslam Parker wrote:

 
> DEPARTMENT OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND LAND REFORM

> NOTE                        :       
>  Persons from the following groups are strongly encouraged to apply:

> Persons with appropriate disabilities, African Female and Male,
Coloured
> Female and Male, Indian Male. 

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