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Ivan R. MONSIEUR
February 14, 1995
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION =
RACIAL DISCRIMINATION
Herewith a contribution under the Chapter of
DEMOCRACY.
The biggest change in the "new South Africa,' is the move
towards a true democracy and the abolishment of legal discrimination based
on
race, sex, creed or color.
A new term, emanating from the USA:
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION has entered our society.
With AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, some
intend to change a wrong from the past into a right. Unfortunately 2
"wrongs" do not make one "right".
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION intends to give
benefits to some part of our society in order to compensate for "injustice" done
to them in the
past.
If any aspect of AFFIRMATIVE ACTION would be
embedded in the constitution, South African law would be back before the 1994
elections.
it would indeed legally endorse the treatment of certain population
groups more favorably than others, solely based on color.
My request must
hence be that no relation to AFFIRMATIVE ACTION will be made in the new
constitution.
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