Sowetan

Getting rid of whites won’t solve our many problems

- Tendai Moyo ■ Moyo is a Sowetan reader

You’ve got to laugh when people complain about white supremacy!

I have observed a few state funerals, provincial and national ones, and one can see that white and black folk come from two different worlds.

Former rugby player Joost van der Westhuizen received a provincial funeral, yet even his coffin was plain and simple.

They didn’t go for an expensive casket just because the state would carry the costs, unlike others at provincial funerals.

As a restaurant manager, I often see lots of rich white kids who work as barmen, waiters and so on in spite of the fact that their parents can afford to spoil them rotten.

Most pay portions of their university fees and work for meagre salaries even though the parents are filthy rich and, as a result, they learn at an early age how to be responsibl­e citizens.

I have also observed that most of them rarely have more kids than they can afford. Some get married and plainly choose not to have kids at all. They also plan most of their pregnancie­s.

White kids are encouraged by their parents to take maths and science as key subjects.

What really breaks my heart is that after independen­ce more and more black kids are born out of wedlock and they aren’t raised by both parents.

Indian communitie­s value the family structure and their children excel, while we have angry children.

The latest population stats have proven once more that the black population is growing out of control and the question is: who is going to feed these kids? We surely cannot expect government to look after our children.

If we stopped focusing on white people but instead focused on our own developmen­t, this country would have been Africa’s greatest by now. We truly come from two different worlds.

In 23 years South Africa should have revamped the education system, with bigger emphasis on science, technology and maths; appointed competent people in the right positions; scrapped BEE; focused on real entreprene­urship; engaged in real, meaningful land reform; go t rid of a corrupt Jacob Zuma; and built a society based on fairness. Instead, SA has chosen the wrong path that the rest of Africa took.

Even if you get rid of white people today, that is not going to solve any of your problems. Rather, it will worsen them.

Let me tell you, these whities pay taxes, rates and create more jobs than the majority of this country’s citizens.

So, you need to find each other. You can bring statues down or expel white people but the reality is you have a clueless government under whose watch everything has deteriorat­ed!

Just like all African despots, they are still blaming colonialis­m – yet their performanc­e is really appalling. Their only scapegoats are white supremacis­ts, white monopoly capital and the race card, just as it happened everywhere else in Africa.

‘ ‘ We surely cannot expect government to look after our children

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