[OSGeo Africa] Job opportunities at DRDLR

[Gavin Fleming]

Thanks Walter...and this will be the last word on the matter.

It's one thing to have a reasoned discussion about an issue that affects 
our industry but quite another for people like Chris (who started the 
response to this thread) and some of the other respondents to reveal 
their personal and political leanings in a most unpleasant way.

I've put the list on full moderation and will do again in future if the 
discussion heads too far off topic or becomes offensive. And I've put 
Chris on permanent moderation, one step away from banning.

Please remember this list is about Open Source GIS and other related 
Open subjects!

Gavin

On 15/04/2014 15:28, Walter Smit wrote:
> I do agree that the terminology used is racist.
>
> However it does only state that those "classifications of people" are
> *encouraged* to apply. Remember that these are Occupation Specific
> Dispensation (OSD) posts - which means that it is only (registered)
> professionals that can apply. In South Africa, in GISc, that would mean
> PLATO registered. Guess what that demographic looks like...
>
> So please, all (qualifying) South Africans should apply - you all have a
> fair chance. I speak from very recent personal experience...
>
> Regards
> Walter Smit
> Chief GISc Professional
> Spatial Planning and Land Use Management (Freestate)
> DRDLR
> :-)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: africa-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:africa-bounces at lists.osgeo.org]
> On Behalf Of Wilma Nel
> Sent: 15 April 2014 02:26 PM
> To: chris at airphotoafrica.co.za; Africa local chapter discussions
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo Africa] Job opportunities at DRDLR
>
> 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


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