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Liberal_in_LA

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Wed Feb 24, 2016, 10:01 PM Feb 2016

The 'WHITE squatter camps' of South Africa: Shanty towns built after the fall of Apartheid [View all]

The 'WHITE squatter camps' of South Africa: Shanty towns built after the fall of Apartheid are now home to hundreds of families

Working-class white people, most of them Afrikaans-speakers, are going through an intense crisis in South Africa
This is one of 80 white squatter townships in country where families live in poverty, with little food or running water
Seeking to undo years of racial inequality, the ruling African National Congress (ANC) government introduced laws that promoted employment for blacks and aimed to give them a greater share of the economy
This, along with the global financial meltdown, has meant many white South Africans have fallen on hard times


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3462336/The-white-squatter-camps-South-Africa-home-hundreds-families-enduring-terrible-poverty-blame-fall-Apartheid.html#ixzz418nx5Sln

alternative source to DailyFail: http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/western-cape/visit-the-capes-white-squatter-camp-1872642













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