Chinese South Africans classified as black

[Kire]

Source: Telegraph.co.uk

Chinese South Africans classified as black
By Mike Pflanz in Nairobi
Last Updated: 10:14PM BST 18/06/2008
Chinese were reclassified as "black" in a landmark South African ruling allowing them access to economic benefits.

The country's estimated 20,000 ethnic Chinese were classed as "coloured" during the apartheid era but campaigners argued that since 1994 they had been seen largely as "white".

This had excluded them from South Africa's economic empowerment schemes which give preference for job applications and contract tenders to black, Indian and mixed-race groups.

At the High Court in Pretoria, a judge ruled that Chinese South Africans must in law be considered eligible for those affirmative action programmes.

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"Under apartheid, we were not considered white, we could not vote, we could not go to certain places, we needed permits, we were marginalised like all the other non-whites.

"But then since 1994, we have been excluded from job interviews, business opportunities, even share offers, because now suddenly everyone decided that we were 'white'. Today, finally, has changed that."



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[Boojatta]

1. Worth repeating:

"Under apartheid, we were not considered white, we could not vote, we could not go to certain places, we needed permits, we were marginalised like all the other non-whites.

"But then since 1994, we have been excluded from job interviews, business opportunities, even share offers, because now suddenly everyone decided that we were 'white'.

[trusty elf]

2. They were at the bottom of the Peking order.

:D

[semillama]

3. I nominate you for bad pun of the day. n/t

[trusty elf]

4. Sorry, I know it's bad.

I have a silly streak.

:silly:

[jakem]

5. after that pun, i would Duck if i were you-

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