Government neglect: None of the ANC's poverty-reduction programmes include benefits to poor-whites (mostly Afrikaners) - study

FLASHBACK - May 31 2010 - PRETORIA. The more than 800,000 poor whites (in 2009) - mostly Afrikaners - obtain no benefits from the ANC-regime's 'Poverty Reduction Programme. " (NOTE: by November 2014 it has become crystal-clear that the ANC-regime has never included the 'white' citizens of South Africa into its plans for the future: local ANC-regime-run town councils such as Krugersdorp's, make decisions which deliberately endanger the lives of poor-whites: for instance by forcibly removing them to live on garbage-dumps, in dangerously ramshackle housing without any of the basic services which South Africans are entitled to under the constitution such as free clean water, sanitation facilities and free access to public schools. Afrikaners from empoverished communities are discriminated against in all walks of life, and often denied hospital treatment, denied the basic right to be taken by a government ambulance to public hospitals, and their children are denied an education in their own home language of Afrikaans. Solidarity trade union announced in November 2014 that they have approached the United Nations with a formal complaint about the more than 110 black-racist anti-whtie discrimination laws passed through the South African government's Black Economic Empowerment Act and similar laws). This was the finding of a study by the Umsobomvu Youth Fund, UYF, which was handed to South African Jacob Zuma during his personal visit to one of the 'poor white' communities in Pretoria at the Bethlehem squatter camp. Zuma was invited by Solidarity trade union to investigate the situation at the white squatter camps personally. -- (The Umsobomvu Youth Fund (UYF) has fused with the National Youth Commission (NYC) and is currently known as the "National Youth Development Agency (NYDA). --- Their study found in 2009 that NONE of the South African regime's community poverty-reduction programmes provide any benefits or support to poor whites. The national and provincial Youth Commissions of Zuma's own government were unable to identify ANY community-based organisations which were applying government funds to 'poor white areas'. Zuma visited the Bethlehem camp before, in July 2008, and revisited it on May 31 2010. He spoke to some 1,000 poor Afrikaners who were assembled at the camp for his visit. The then-premier of the 'Gauteng' (Transvaal) province Numvula Mokonyane, the mayor of Pretoria Gwen Ramokgopa and several ANC-ministers also accompanied Zuma to the meeting. The former Usobomvu Youth Fund undertook the study in April 2009 to 'identify the core challenges for poor-whites in South Africa.' The study was never formally presented to the government but was made available to Solidarity's Helping Hand non-profit group so that the study could be handed to Zuma personally. "According to this study, not even one poor-white community could be found which benefited from the South African government's 29,966 poverty-reduction programmes countrywhite. White communities do not 'have priority' when applying for child-benefits or benefits for the disabled. The government's 'affirmative action programme' which gives preference to poor blacks is also worsening the poverty of the white community even more." Helping Hand's spokesman Dirk Hermann said 'from this study in 2008 it was made very clear that 'white South Africans' are being increasingly marginalised. The government's poverty-reduction programme must also provide opportunities to provide grants to the development and basic survival-support of the poor whites,' warned Hermann. The study showed that the average monthly income per family in poor-white suburbs such as Danville and Claremont in Pretoria West, for instance, ranged from R500 to R3,000. The majority of these mostly Afrikaner residents in these areas have little formal education and almost never can afford school-fees or school-clothes. The largest challenge in these poor-white communities is the high dropout rate in schools because of the inability of parents to pay school fees, -clothes and -books. The unemployment level is high due to the black-economic-empowerment laws of the South African government, which removes 'whites' from the entire job-market with a large variety of laws barring whites from engaging in economic activities to help their families survive. The government's educational bursaries are entirely focused on 'previously advantaged (black, coloured and Indian) communities. "The general conclusion is that the government is deliberately denying poor white South Africans any rights to government benefits, and is denying them financing and skills-training only because they are whites.' Government officials claim to be 'unaware of white poverty' and the government officials do not make any efforts to include the white (Afrikaners) of South Africa into its future planning. The government is using racial discrimination to drive a wedge between South African communities for political reasons.' http://www.koerant.co.za/armblankes-suig-aan-agterste-speen/