[OSGeo Africa] Job opportunities at DRDLR

Tue Apr 15 06:05:15 PDT 2014

Dear all

Are we again turning this forum into a racist debate. I think we are professionals and should know where and how to air our grievances. The person who posted the vacancies just did it in good faith. Is it necessary to load our mailbox with these emails? I don’t think so. Please let’s just show respect to this forum.

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From: africa-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:africa-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Chris Berens
Sent: 15 April 2014 03:00 PM
To: Africa local chapter discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo Africa] Job opportunities at DRDLR

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<mailto: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>
[mailto: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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