Post #48130
November 04, 2015, 03:21:00 PM
It's not really that anything has changed, it's more that the fight has left me. The recent student riots, and the government's inability to deal with it properly, was just the final blow. There are far worse problems, like our water utility, power utility, idiotic implementation of affirmative action (which has left many white males completely without a job), and the EFF's meteoric rise to power, despite their blatant racist and xenophobic policies. I'm also expected to work nearly for free for the state after graduating, but the government doesn't want to do anything for me or any other students, and on top of that, even with my excellent grades and work performance, I'll still get passed over one day when it comes to job promotions because I am a white male.
Luckily no lawyer struggles to find work, but I am just sick of everything in South Africa. Eskom, our power utility, is going ahead with its plan to fire 7000 white males in management positions, despite this power crisis already being the result of people in management who don't have the necessary skills or experience.
Interestingly, among black South Africans in their middle ages and older, this is widely condemned, but the black youth has largely fallen under the spell of Julius Malema, the leader of the EFF, despite the youth never feeling the blow of apartheid themselves.
I just can't see a future here anymore. I've felt like this for awhile, but these recent student riots have just broken something in me. I firmly believed we were at least in good hands with regards to our future engineers, lawyers and educated politicians, but these riots have destroyed that illusion.
EDIT: I'm not sure I can convey just how big a blow these student riots were to me. I love my country, and despite having the opportunity to emigrate to Australia for quite a few years now, as many white people have done, my family and I just kept hoping things would improve. The thought of moving to Australia fills me with dread. And yet I don't see a rational reason to stay anymore.