But in addition, fearful of lawlessness, the white population is also being harassed and persecuted by the law. Air traffic controllers are now being appointed who cannot read their instruments. To supplement the facts quoted by Benson, one may add the purging of the health services over two years ago by the Minister of Health Nkosazana Zuma, who replaced district surgeons and doctors with Cuban recruits, competent neither in the English language, nor as medical practitioners. Working Class Whites on Scrap Heap Working class whites are now being dumped and paid a miserable dole to make way for the black Africans. Benson quotes the example of a bus driver sacked after 17 years service.
Some families can no longer afford to feed themselves.
These now rely on church soup kitchens. They are off the end of Mandela's rainbow, without a pot of gold in sight. The Government in the new South Africa is intolerant of opposition. But when these failures come under criticism, as in the case of de Lille, the response of the Government under the new president Mbeki is to threaten her with expulsion from parliament for being 'racist', and bring in the egislation to outlaw criticism of a person's 'private life' which might impair their dignity. De Lille asks where the money for these public projects went, and answers into someone's pocket.