LETTER: The ANC’s Pyrrhic ‘victory’ over privilege
If privilege generates human capital that can be used to elicit similar capital for the disadvantaged, that capital should be put to good use
If the central tenet of the ANC is racial equality, the party and its supporters are confused. The National Development Plan — accepted as policy by the governing party — is unambiguous that whites, due to privilege over generations, are possessed of deep reserves of human capital. This capital must be accessed to promote equality.
Yet the Judicial Service Commission rejected for the Constitutional Court one of the most brilliant legal minds of our generation. Why? Because he was “privileged”. So if privilege generates human capital that can be used to elicit similar capital for the disadvantaged, this capital must be eschewed because it was born out of privilege...
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