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The ANC detests competence. For every white professional who is angry due to the lack of opportunity in SA, I’ll show you four black, talented professionals who were constructively dismissed or frustrated out of their positions.
It’s easy to mock useless, overpaid public servants. But faced with a choice of unemployment with a family to feed, or a R1m a year useless job, it’s hardly a choice — even when you’re humiliated, overlooked and your talent wasted constantly. Because you may be black, but not a cadre.
Even the private sector often appoints connected cadres instead of talented black professionals.
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LETTER: Cadres over competence
The ANC detests competence. For every white professional who is angry due to the lack of opportunity in SA, I’ll show you four black, talented professionals who were constructively dismissed or frustrated out of their positions.
It’s easy to mock useless, overpaid public servants. But faced with a choice of unemployment with a family to feed, or a R1m a year useless job, it’s hardly a choice — even when you’re humiliated, overlooked and your talent wasted constantly. Because you may be black, but not a cadre.
Even the private sector often appoints connected cadres instead of talented black professionals.
Thabiso Tsheole
Via BusinessLIVE
JOIN THE DISCUSSION: Send us an email with your comments to letters@businesslive.co.za. Letters of more than 300 words will be edited for length. Anonymous correspondence will not be published. Writers should include a daytime telephone number.
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