{"id":14257,"date":"2018-09-07T22:25:18","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T22:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=14257"},"modified":"2018-09-07T22:25:18","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T22:25:18","slug":"can-there-be-equality-in-post-apartheid-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=14257","title":{"rendered":"Can there be equality in post-apartheid South Africa?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"80.3471444569\">\n<p>For the first time in South Africa&#8217;s history, thousands of white union workers have staged a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/09\/white-south-africans-protest-discrimination-180907142352512.html\">strike<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span>They are furious their employer &#8211; one of the country&#8217;s leading energy companies &#8211; has introduced a new share scheme which is only available to black workers. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>White workers say that is discriminatory and racially divisive. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But their bosses at Sasol say the move has been backed by shareholders and meets rules designed for black economic empowerment, part of a drive to reverse decades of exclusion for black people under apartheid. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>In post-apartheid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/south-africa.html\">South Africa<\/a>, what constitutes fairness?<\/p>\n<p><span><strong> Presenter:<\/strong> Hashem Ahelbarra <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Guests:<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Dirk Hermann &#8211; CEO of Solidarity Trade Union<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Dennis George &#8211; general secretary, Federation of Unions of South Africa<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Ralph Mathekga &#8211; lecturer at the University of the Western Cape and author of Ramaphosa&#8217;s Turn: Can Cyril save South Africa?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in South Africa&#8217;s history, thousands of white union workers have staged a strike. They are furious their employer &#8211; one of the country&#8217;s leading energy companies &#8211; has introduced a new share scheme which is only available to black workers. White workers say that is discriminatory and racially divisive. But their&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":14258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}