Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News – 21-05-2019
A programme Coordinator at the University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business Science (Gibs) has told Radio Islam that if the legacy of apartheid and its systemic structures are not addressed and changed, the same pattern will assert itself in the next few decades.
There has been a constant refrain by government ministers when talking about the South African economy and that refrain is “Reversing the legacies of apartheid”.
However, Gibs Marius Oosthuizen argues in an article in The Conversation, that these are factors, which continue to limit black people’s access to jobs and economic opportunities.
Oosthuizen says the apartheid system was created to ensure white privilege at the cost of black South Africans.
He says there must be more opportunities for black South Africans to participate in the older apartheid economy, which consisted of institutions like Eskom, Transnet and Sasol amongst others.
“Unless we build the bridges and the mechanism’s to get black South Africans to participate in that older apartheid economy, what we’ll continue to see is a small group of privileged being replaced from one race to another without any real large scale change in the country.”
Oosthuizen says the private sector together with government have an enormous role play to drive the systemic change.
Listen to the interview with Marius Oosthuizen
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