This new democracy is as much a joke as the apartheid government was. I never supported either of the two because of their inherent incompetencies. Racial discrimination is still alive and well as it was in the old days except though, now its aimed at the minority which is white. No matter how pathetic and ridiculous it is to favour incompetence based on race and skin colour it is also legitimised in law as it was in the apartheid era, evidently we the so-call rainbow nation have really learnt nothing after all, have we!

The only way to change things is to challenge it in as many ways as possible here and overseas , but it is a long process ,ask the ANC .

white people owns companies and are still discriminating black people even now. for instance if you can't speak afrikaans you cant even work at most companies in cape town and even if u r luck to work, ur career is not going anywhere...look at a bigger picture solidarity

I still encouter racial discrimination in the insurance industry .One cant qualify for certain position in areas like the Free State .Reason is you cant speak Afrikaans .You are qualified in terms of the qualifications and experience , but you are being discriminated by the langaunge ,Its still not affair .So Solidarity must look at the broader picture of the whole thing PLEASE . i would like to remain anonymous please .

As a member of a community police forum, I have a perfect example of a case where an Affirmative Action appointed Captain in SAPS has directly impacted negatively (no disastrously) on crime in our area. This captain drafted a police operational plan for our police station that actually plans for an INCREASE of serious contact crimes in our area. Yes, you heard correctly. An INCREASE of that crime and not a decrease as one would have hoped for. Furthermore, the same AA-appointed captain also planned for a police reaction time of more than 1 hour (60 min plus) in terms of crime complaints! And that whilst the standard reaction time should be 5min as per Police Head Office! What is really funny is that (1) this captain is appointed as the Strategic Management Facilitator in the area, and (2) his station commander actually accepted these Key Performance Indicators as the relevant police station's performance evaluation measures and send it to Police Provincial Head Office, that actually ACCEPTED it! When we as a community police forum confronted the relevant local authorities in this regard, they mentioned that this captain was useless and they don't know how he ever could be appointed in that position, unless he had an AA advantage. Did they discipline him for his incompetence? No, he was transferred to another station so that he can become a problem for another community police forum. And up to this day the local station commander tries to defend the indefensible! Who suffers? Well, we the community that lives in an area where our police have actually planned for ant INCREASE in contact crime and a sub-standard reaction time!! Please get my email from this newspaper and contact me if you need the proof. This would really be funny if it wasn't so sad!

Service delivery before window dressing, however solidarity is wasting its time , everyone including the judges are racially biased but good to prove a point anyway