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From: gdvsmit@watrose.UUCP (Riel Smit)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: South African Blacks
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Date: Tue, 29-Oct-85 18:19:29 EST
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Posted: Tue Oct 29 18:19:29 1985
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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.