[OSGeo Africa] Job opportunities at DRDLR

[Chris Berens]

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.

Other Chris


On 15 April 2014 14:25, Wilma Nel <nelw at mogalakwena.gov.za> wrote:

> 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.
>
> _______________________________________________
> Africa mailing list
> Africa at lists.osgeo.org
> You can UNSUBSCRIBE at http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/africa
> _______________________________________________
> Africa mailing list
> Africa at lists.osgeo.org
> You can UNSUBSCRIBE at http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/africa
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/africa/attachments/20140415/fca4c862/attachment.html>