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Apartheid and Maybelline

9 February 2023 By Alan Straton

There is a ‘diatribe’ credited to a person with a very African name that pops up on Social Media every now and then – reproduced at the bottom of my comments for your edification.

Basically the ‘diatribe’ is one calculated to make people who benefited under apartheid feel smug and holier than thou – basically it is a slap in the face for those who did suffer under apartheid which removed the ONE THING that we all fight for every day of our lives – FREEDOM.

A quick message to those that post the message and keep the incorrect narrative going; “Yes, YOU are racist and need training in sensitivity!”

You can give prisoners all of the below every day of the year for many many years BUT they will still be prisoners – not able to associate with whom they choose, not able to travel, confined to their prison cell and subject to their jailers whims.

THAT was the core problem under apartheid.

Boasting about how ‘good’ whites were to blacks under apartheid is like putting lipstick on a pig OR maybe the apartheid government DID feel guilty so they kept on ‘tossing the dog a bone’ whilst they kept the dog on a tight leash?

The root cause here is the removal of rights, access and dignity – The rest is Maybelline.

If apartheid was SO merciless and inhumane, how did Mandela manage to get a lawyers degree?

Was it inhumane for whites to have built TEN Universities for blacks during Apartheid?

Didn’t this inhumane Government increase its budget on black education by 30% every year? Paid for by white taxes.

How was it possible in such inhumane conditions, for 65% of black South African children to be at school, compared to Egypt 64%, Nigeria 57%, Ghana52%, Tanzania50% and Ethiopia 29%?

How was it possible in such inhumane conditions, that 71% of black adults in South Africa could read and write, compared to Kenya 47%, Egypt 38%, Nigeria 34% and Mozambique 26%?

Didn’t these ‘inhumane racist whites’ build 15 new classrooms for black schools, EVERY working day, EVERY year?

How was it possible in such inhumane conditions, for the black population to grow from 5 million to 40 million?
If the Apartheid regime was so inhumane, why did it spend 56% of its annual budget on blacks?

If it was so inhumane, how was it possible for black living standards to rise by 5.4% per year?

If it was so inhumane, how did Soweto get 115 football fields, 3 rugby fields, 4 athletic tracks, 11 cricket pitched, 2 golf courses, 47 tennis courts, 7 swimming pools built to Olympic standards, 5 bowling alleys, 81 netball fields, 39 children’s play parks, and 78 civic halls, 42 cinemas, 48 clubhouses, 316 churches, 378 schools, 2 technical colleges, 8 clinics, 63 child day care centres, 11 Post Offices, and its own fruit and vegetable market? All paid for by white taxes!

If it was SO bad, why did Soweto alone have more cars, taxis, schools, churches and sport facilities than most independent countries in Africa?

More private vehicles than the entire white population of the USSR at the time?

Who gave Blacks the Baragwanath Hospital for free? The biggest hospital in the world, with 3245 beds and at its peak almost 8200 staff?

It had 23 operation theatres fitted out with the most modern medical equipment that existed in the world; where Blacks were treated and operated on, at full government subsidies, costs to the white taxpayers for unlimited periods.

The budget of this hospital was higher than the yearly budget of most small member states of the United Nations.

It employed 456 medical doctors in full-time service.

It treated 112 000 in-patients and 1.76 million out-patients per year.

The children and infant death rate with 34.8 per 1000 was lower than Harlem in New York.

In 1982 alone, this hospital performed 908 heart operations of world standard on Black patients.

94% of the blood donors to that hospital, whites?

Who gave the blacks the St. John’s Eye Clinic, world famous for the treatment of Glaucoma, cataracts, eye traumatic injuries and rare tropical diseases?

All built and maintained by white taxpayers money for blacks.

And remember that 92% of the inhumane whites voted for change in SA in the referendum of 17 March 1992.

But hey, let’s keep on blaming the whites and apartheid 29 years after an entire country, in perfect working condition, was handed over to Black rule.

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Passionate about Port Elizabeth and definitely NOT packing for Perth. Alan's ethos is epitomised in the words of Nelson Mandela; "I have fought against white domination and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the idea of a democratic and free society. If need be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die." See more articles by Alan.
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