Poverty within South African Whites

[voron]

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/201...south_afr.html

I know there are poor people everywhere, but it is kind of surprising to see such level of poverty in what basically is a Western country. I also wonder if such picture is a recent development or were such living conditions a norm for poor white folk in South Africa during the apartheid era?

[Zupan]

niggas be hating on dem krackazzz.


I would say it's a result of the black authority wanting to get back at the whites. But the only whites they could get back against were the 'poorer' whites.

It would make sense.

[Homus Afrikaans]

Well don't many Afrikaners still employ lots of blacks as cheap labor? That might be why they don't want to create their own separate country, don't you?

I don't know how the Afrikaners can be so dysfunctional. I don't understand how the rich Afrikaner families can just abandon the poorer ones. The poorer families have no security net.

Terre'Blanche had black employees!!

[IstenmeyenTuy]

I have seen some of those photos before on somewhere and I was quite surprised. I had no idea before.

[pinguin]

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/201...south_afr.html

I know there are poor people everywhere, but it is kind of surprising to see such level of poverty in what basically is a Western country. I also wonder if such picture is a recent development or were such living conditions a norm for poor white folk in South Africa during the apartheid era?

South Africa is a Western country? Why?

[Homus Afrikaans]

South Africa is a Western country? Why?

Apparently no,

[Fedex]

Starving people, kids with no shoes... Even here you don't see that kind of poorness anymore.

[pinguin]

We should bring those poor whites here. However, there is a risk the others follow....

[PolskiMoc]

Starving people, kids with no shoes... Even here you don't see that kind of poorness anymore.

There is even Poverty like that in the U.S. Mexicans & Guatemalans live worse than this in my Town.
They live in tents in the woods sometimes. Even as much as 50 in a 3 bedroom house.
They often have no furniture & often just sleep in sleeping bags.

Just 15 minutes from me is a Trailer park called Onion town. It looks just like that.

My mom just 15 years ago saw kids from there that were 7 years old without shoes & all rotten out teeth & dirty clothes.

Exactly like the Pictures.

But, Now Onion town is becoming more Mexican & Black.

My friend had a black guy jump into his truck while he was meter reading for the Electrical company.
&
My friends mother was breast feeding in front of this area & a guy with a shotgun told her she has to leave

My other friend was walking right by that area & people starting shooting at them.

[pinguin]

There is even Poverty like that in the U.S. Mexicans & Guatemalans live worse than this in my Town.
They live in tents in the woods sometimes. Even as much as 50 in a 3 bedroom house.
They often have no furniture & often just sleep in sleeping bags.
...

In my country, only the mentaly retarded and rebelious homeless people live that way. Most people, even the poorest, have the means to survive in life. And you don't see kids without shoes in the streets.

Poverty show quite a lot not only about how much money a country makes, but how a country takes care of people.

It is acceptable that in a very poor country you would see poverty widespread. But medium income and developed countries had the resources to solve the basic social problems. If the governments do nothing is because fascism have cold theirs hearths.