LETTER: History of SA inequality far too one-dimensional
Our inequality is a result of more than one-way traffic with British colonialism
Moeletsi Mbeki’s article on the origins of SA’s inequality presented a one-dimensional process and agent of this inequality (“How a history of conflict made SA the most unequal country in the world (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/2020-09-21-moeletsi-mbeki-how-a-history-of-conflict-made-sa-the-most-unequal-country-in-the-world/)”, September 21.
By conveniently defining Afrikaners as native people because they resisted British and Dutch dominion, he can then go on to tag the colonial British as the sole agents of the one-way traffic that saw them overcome native resistance. So definite is he in his analysis that a tone of inevitability characterises the piece...
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