LETTER: White, privileged and nostalgic
Spur’s Chris Dunn was given a chance, career and lifestyle that were denied to black South Africans
02 August 2020 - 18:31
So Chris Dunn undertook a mysteriously “arduous” aeroplane trip from the UK to Cape Town in 1983 and went on to be given “the keys to a future” in SA, where he remains to this day (“Spur’s fizzling sizzle is a tragedy (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/letters/2020-07-29-letter-spurs-fizzling-sizzle-is-a-tragedy/)”, July 29).
He writes with deep nostalgia of the period — without once referring to the fact that he, merely through his experience at a “fish ’n chip chain in the UK” (and being white) was afforded opportunities, a career and a lifestyle that were denied to black South Africans...
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