Cyril Ramaphosa’s reference to the privilege of white youth and Affirmative Action (AA) and Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) shows that he clearly does not understand the argument for equal rights for all in South Africa.
Ramaphosa’s use of the unemployment statistics, which indicate that 20% of black youth are unemployed compared to only 7% of white youth, and his assumption that white youth is therefore still privileged, means that he will only accept that equality has been established once both groups have the same unemployment rate.
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