Discrimination on the basis of intelligence

THE MOST intelligent, hard-working and talented students are excluded from medical schools in South Africa because they are “Indians”, and if merit was a criterion then only Indians would become doctors.

The results are a number of inefficient students who become doctors with a resultant R10.5 billion medical negligence claims against the KZN Department of Health alone.

“Karma”. The government pays for its sins, but it is poor blacks who suffer and get inferior care at public hospitals while the political elite who enforce racial quotas go to private hospitals where merit applies.

The health system has collapsed like the police and education systems because of affirmative action and quotas. It’s a case of “Suffer, the beloved country”. While our children are deprived of opportunities in the land of their birth, they are sought after in other countries for their intellect and work ethic. They still prosper while South Africa collapses into corruption and incompetence.

A meeting was held by the South African Minority Rights Equality Movement (Samrem) in Pietermaritzburg this week regarding the recent corruption scandal at UKZN’S medical school. Parents had the following to say:

While the actions of the arrested people are clearly grounded in bribery and corruption, one has to ask why so many parents resorted to this approach? It’s no rocket science that these ridiculous quotas opened opportunities for such corruption and that parents will do whatever they can for their children.

One has to accept that we live in one of the most racist non-racial countries in the world with quota systems, BEE systems, and every other system to accommodate under-achievers, even dropping pass rates. In the case of the medical student situation, parents’ hands were forced into doing what is deemed “wrong”.