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Over here in South Africa Affirmative Action is a huge deal and is being implemented to right the wrongs of the Apartheid era. Unfortunately the only real affect it has is that incompetent people get appointed in positions based purely on their skin color and no thought is given to appetite.
It also makes it nearly impossible for white South African males to get accepted for any jobs. Businesses are being forced to do Black Economic Empowerment as well (have to have a certain % of black shareholders) in order to qualify for goverment tenders etc.
I see it as a pure form of reverse racism. Some brilliant people can't get bursaries to attend universities and those that do manage to educate themselves have an extremely difficult time to get work. The sad part is that the politicians over here have stated that it will never be stopped.
I strongly believe people should be appointed on merit and not based on skin color.
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