{"id":21048,"date":"2015-11-05T11:30:04","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T11:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/south-africa-whites-are-victims-of-themselves\/"},"modified":"2015-11-05T11:29:35","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T11:29:35","slug":"south-africa-whites-are-victims-of-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/south-africa-whites-are-victims-of-themselves\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa:Whites are victims of themselves – deputy minister"},"content":{"rendered":"

{ohannesburg – White South Africans were the victims of the very system they were fighting to preserve, co-operative governance and traditional affairs deputy minister Andries Nel said on Thursday.}<\/p>\n

“For in becoming racialists and exploiters, they become closed off to important areas of human experience,” he said at a round table on whiteness, Afrikaans and Afrikaners in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n

“The essential thing white South Africans lose is openness to the future and to other people.”<\/p>\n

Nel was speaking under the theme Where are the Suzmans, Slovos, Fischers and Naudes of today?<\/p>\n

Read more here: – Whites forget how unjust apartheid was – survey<\/p>\n

He said not only must racism be attacked but also the unquestioned acceptance of material values underlying racism.<\/p>\n

“We must show to all those who accept dominant values how much they lose in this society and how much they could gain in a good society.”<\/p>\n

Nel said the country needed to overcome the high levels of mistrust between major social partners.<\/p>\n

Partnerships across society<\/p>\n

The National Development Plan (NDP) envisioned a country where everyone felt free yet bound to others; where everyone embraced their full potential and a country where opportunity was determined by ability, education and hard work.<\/p>\n

Leaders in government, business, labour and civil society needed to work hard to implement this.<\/p>\n

“We need partnerships across society working together towards a common purpose. Government had to shoulder a large share of the responsibility,” he said.<\/p>\n

This meant being prepared to take difficult decisions and trade-offs and persuading society of the correctness of these decisions. This required communicating “honestly and sincerely” and demanded the moral authority and legitimacy to do so.<\/p>\n

The country faced the challenge of poverty, inequality and unemployment and the racial form they took, Nel said.<\/p>\n

In South Africa the major cause of conflict was the unequal distribution of wealth, coinciding with race and, more roughly, with cultural differences.<\/p>\n

However, if the wealth gap was removed, there would no longer be an inherent reason for conflict.<\/p>\n

Cultural or racial groups could and did co-exist when they were not divided by different economic interests.<\/p>\n

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