Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watrose.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watnot!watrose!gdvsmit From: gdvsmit@watrose.UUCP (Riel Smit) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Re: South African Blacks Message-ID: <7644@watrose.UUCP> Date: Tue, 29-Oct-85 18:19:29 EST Article-I.D.: watrose.7644 Posted: Tue Oct 29 18:19:29 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 30-Oct-85 04:53:58 EST References: <1552@utcsri.UUCP> Distribution: can Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 21 In article <1552@utcsri.UUCP> vassos@utcsri.UUCP (Vassos Hadzilacos) writes: > >Well, in that case let's stick to the point you *are* arguing: How does >SA's economy offer starvation wages at gunpoint. I must admit that was >a poorly stated sentence. What I meant is: > > The apartheid system forcibly creates the conditions that enable > white employers to offer starvation wages to black workers. > Re-stated like that (and you must agree there is a big difference between the two statements) I do not have a quarrel with you. However, allow me to make two observations: 1) The "starvation wages" are still much higher than what is earned by the majority in the rest of Africa (which, again, still does not justify it), and 2) all employers are not white, and yes, the black employers do not necessarily pay better wages. (I have had black people tell me that they would rather work for a white boss than a black one because the black ones pay so bad.) Note that there are exceptions, both black and white.