BEE is perpetuating the culture of entitlement that is helping to cripple a country in desperate need of creativity and enterprise As the 21st anniversary of SA’s first all-race election approaches on April 27, the country "still boils with white racism".Or so some newspaper columnists, as well as academics styling themselves "public intellectuals", would have us believe.The latest evidence of this "boiling racism" is the failure of the University of Cape Town (UCT) to "transform", causing all the outrage against a statue that has sat harmlessly on the campus for decades.How many of UCT’s 26,000 students suddenly found the sight of Cecil Rhodes too painful to bear is not clear.One Indian student wrote that she had experienced "years of unity and kumbaya" during her five years on the campus and that there was no institutional racism there. She also said the university found it difficult to keep young, bright, black graduates on the staff, because they were lured away by companies to ...
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