A woman sits outside her makeshift home in the squatter camp in Munsieville, a township in the Krugersdorp area in Gauteng Province
A growing number of whites are living below the poverty line in South Africa - the temporary camp is home to around 300 people
Children run along the rocky, arid ground at the camp - they were born after the end of apartheid in 1994
Old cars sit next to the flimsy shelters and makeshift toilets in the camp where families are forced to survive on less than £30 a month
By THOMAS BURROWS FOR MAILONLINE
The 'white squatter camps' of South Africa which are home to hundreds of families enduring terrible poverty…which some blame on the fall of Apartheid
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
Shanty huts sit next to clapped-out cars, as children sprint along the dusty wasteland under the scorching sun.
Beyond the flimsy shacks lie ditches and pools of filthy, stagnant water where mosquitoes breed.
These are the daily conditions endured by families in South Africa's 'white squatter camps' where there is little food, running water and no electricity.
While most white South Africans still land the plumb jobs and enjoy relative wealth, the number of poor whites has steadily increased in the past two decades.
Seeking to undo years of racial inequality - when whites were almost guaranteed employment and housing under apartheid - 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.
SOURCE:DAILY MAIL
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Wazungu wanaoishi uswahini? Hii zana yakwamba mswahili au mtu mweusi peke yake ndie anaestahili kuishi katika maisha ya ziki ikome. Sisi waafrica hasa watanzania ni watu wa hovyo sana kutokana na ujinga wa mawazo uliotutawala katika maisha na akili zetu yakwamba mtu mweupe ni mtu tajiri huo ni upuuzi wa kipumbavu kabisa. Jambo la kusikitisha hata zile mamlaka za serikali zetu zimekuwa zikiwapa vipau mbele wageni hasa wale weupe katika masuala mbali mbali ya huduma si kutokana na stahiki isipokuwa kutokana na zana yakuwa wao ni weupe.Ni rahisi sana Tanzania kuona mamlaka husika ikimpa kipau mbele mgeni kutokana na muonokane wake ikimuacha mtanzania akizadhalilika ndani ya nchi yake kwa kweli tunaomba tabia hiyo ikome. Watanzania wengi na familia zao wakati mwengine wamekuwa wakishuhudia usumbufu hasa wanapofika airport za nyumbani na kuwaona wageni hasa wazungu wakipita bila ya usumbufu wa aina yeyote wakati mwengine hata kupekuliwa wao na mizigo yao hawapekuliwi kwa kuwa wao ni wazungu, sasa huo kwanza ni ubaguzi pili ni hatari kwa usalama wa taifa kwani kumwamini mtu usiemjua ni sawa kubeba mzigo usioujua ambao ndani yake mna nyoka. Kwa kifupi watanzania tunatakiwa kuondokana na mawazo mgando yakwamba wazungu siku zote ni watu wa maisha ya raha na sisi ni watu wa ziki. Waandishi na vyombo vya habari baada ya kuelimisha umma kuondokana na mawazo haya potofu wao ndio wa kwanza kuupotosha umma kuhusu white power nonsense.
Amen, umeongea yote. Ninaishi sehemu yenye wazungu asilimia 95, nimewasoma wazungu vizuri, wakati sisi watanzania tunajipendekeza kwao, wao wamafikiri waafrica tumepungukiwa akili, kuna siku mzungu akasema kama waafrica sio wajinga na upande mmoja wa brain yao haikukamilika kwanini hadi leo wana kunya kwenye vyoo vya shimo. Hivi kama wewe ndio mtanzania upo hapo unasikia unasemwa hivyo utajitetea nini wakati unajua kabisa TZ sio nchi masikini kuna gas, madini, mlima na mbuga za wanyama. Kila kitu kinawezekana ila kwa sababu ubongo wa mtanzania mwenye nguvu umetolewa kipande ukapachikwa ufisadi na kijipendekeza kwa wazungu, ni lazima tuchekwe, kudharauliwa na kijidharau wenyewe. Ifike mahali serikali ya Tanzania iamke sasa, watanzania tuache ujinga wa kuona wazungu ni mali kitu.
Ni kweli tuache kabisa huu Ujinga wa kuwaona watu weupe ni Bora kuliko Sisi,,
Anon hapo juu, hii ya wazungu kuishi vizuri angalau imetokana na waliowengi wakishika madaraka kwenye nchi zao ni utamaduni wao kuendeleza jamii uwezi kuona wanamaishi maisha ya hovyo hovyo kama sisi, kwani watahakikisha wanapanga malengo na mikakati yao mpaka inafanikisha, kwanza uongozi mzuri wa uwaminifu na kujituma kwa watu wao, sio kama sis watu weusi, kwenye nchi zao uwezi ona sana gape kubwa kati ya masikini na tajiri, sio kama sisi, Angalau binadamu yeyote yule aweza kuwa tajili au masini, lakini inategemea na uongozi na sheria zao zinafwatwa na nchi husika, na uongozi wa South Africa uwezi shangaaa ni uongozi wa watu weusi, uwezi kuona haya kama nchi za Skandinavia au ulaya kiujumla, na ukiona basi ni wageni wahamiaji pasipo vibali
Wazungu wa aina hii wapo wengi sana hapa Marekani, tunawaita "White Trash". Utawakuta wengi kwenye mikoa ya (Mississippi, Alabama..), inayojulikana kama Appalachia au vipengele vya milima iitwayo "Appallachian mountains" Mikoa mingine kwenye vipengele hivyo ni kentucky, West Virginia, Carolinas (N&S) n.k. Mwandishi wa makala hiyo juu bado anayo kasumba ya kumwona mzungu ni mtu wa hali ya juu, kitu ambacho sikubaliani naye.
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