MICHAEL MORRIS: We were warned affirmative action was a bad idea
Robben Islander Neville Alexander spoke out against policies of entrenching racial prejudice
28 June 2020 - 17:20
The policy of affirmative action and BEE as implemented today is a disastrous mistake and we will rue the day the people of SA were willy-nilly brought to accept it.
On the face of it this might seem an incendiary opinion to express in the fevered sociopolitical atmosphere of mid-2020 in which, in trepidation, millions mind what they say for fear of causing offence and being pilloried for it...
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