Sowetan

Black bosses add to jobs misery

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THE more black people are empowered the more we’ll see more graduates struggling to find jobs, and the future is really looking bleak.

The reason is that once black people occupy top positions in the workplace and have more money, they become arrogant and aloof. We can’t keep on blaming apartheid and white privileges for our woes.

The question is, what are blacks in top positions at revered companies doing to empower others who are underprivi­leged?

The government alone cannot take care of each and every one of us. Sometimes we need to take care of each other, specifical­ly to fight poverty and youth unemployme­nt.

A black business person would rather use his profit to throw a R2-million sushi party than groom a fellow brother or sister to become successful like him or her.

You give a black person a senior position at a company, then they start manipulati­ng all processes that are meant to groom and develop skills for others. They would rather prioritise their families and comrades to do jobs they do not even qualify to do. Sidwell Tshingilan­e, Soweto

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