{"id":19035,"date":"2013-10-28T21:30:11","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T19:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.co.za\/?p=19035"},"modified":"2013-10-28T21:43:27","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T19:43:27","slug":"da-het-pas-koeel-deur-sy-eie-kop-gejaag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/?p=19035","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;DA het pas koe\u00ebl deur sy eie kop gejaag&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"On Thursday last week the National Assembly passed the Employment Equity Amendment Bill.\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.co.za\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/zille4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19039\" alt=\"zille4\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.co.za\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/zille4.jpg\" width=\"235\" height=\"215\" \/><\/a>Verlede week het die Nasionale Vergadering die wysigingswetsontwerp op die <\/span><\/span><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"On Thursday last week the National Assembly passed the Employment Equity Amendment Bill.\"><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"In order to understand the significance of this, and the potential implications for the opposition, it is necessary to first go back some fifteen years to when the original Employment Equity Act was first passed.\">Wet op Billike Indiensneming <\/span><\/span><\/span><span title=\"It did so not just with the support of the ruling African National Congress but also of the Democratic Alliance.\">met die steun van die regerende ANC \u00e9n die Demokratiese Alliansie ingestem, skryf <\/span><\/span><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"It did so not just with the support of the ruling African National Congress but also of the Democratic Alliance.\"><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"The author worked as a parliamentary researcher in the Democratic Party between 1997 and 2001.\"> &#8216;n voormalige parlement\u00eare navorser van die DP.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"In order to understand the significance of this, and the potential implications for the opposition, it is necessary to first go back some fifteen years to when the original Employment Equity Act was first passed.\">Ten einde die betekenis hiervan asook die potensi\u00eble implikasies vir die opposisie te verstaan, \u200b\u200bs\u00ea <\/span><\/span><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"In order to understand the significance of this, and the potential implications for the opposition, it is necessary to first go back some fifteen years to when the original Employment Equity Act was first passed.\">James Myburgh, is dit nodig om eers terug te gaan in die geskiedenis n\u00e1 1994.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"In order to understand the significance of this, and the potential implications for the opposition, it is necessary to first go back some fifteen years to when the original Employment Equity Act was first passed.\">Die ANC se ware <\/span><span title=\"In 1997 as the ANC's true racial nationalist agenda began to surface there was a concomitant realisation among white, and particularly Afrikaner voters, that the National Party had secured few real protections for them in the negotiations.\">rasse-agenda wat reeds duidelik begin raak het binne enkele jare na die oorgawe, het &#8216;n gepaardgaande besef onder wit, en veral Afrikanerkiesers gebring dat die Nasionale Party nie werklike beskerming vir hulle beding het tydens die onderhandelinge nie. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"One letter writer to Beeld noted: &quot;The NP had received a mandate form us to protect and secure our interests at all times. De Klerk did not get a mandate to lead, like a Judas goat, his unsuspecting people to the political slaughterhouse.&quot;\">Een briefskrywer aan Beeld het in 1997 opgemerk &#8220;dat De Klerk het nie &#8216;n mandaat gehad het om, soos &#8216;n Judasbok, sy niksvermoedende mense na die politieke slagpale te lei nie.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span title=\"That year De Klerk stepped down to be replaced by Marthinus van Schalkwyk.\">Daardie jaar het De Klerk uitgetree en is vervang deur Marthinus van Schalkwyk. Aan <\/span><span title=\"Yet, by the end of the following year the DP was level pegging with the NNP in the polls and in the 1999 elections it went on to displace it as the official opposition.\">die einde van die volgende jaar het die DP gelykop met die NNP by die stembus ge\u00ebindig en in die 1999-verkiesing die amptelike opposisie geword.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span title=\"It did so largely on the strength of its opposition to the Employment Equity Bill that was introduced in draft form in December 1997 and passed in late 1998.\">Di\u00e9 oorwinning was grootliks te danke aan die DP se teenkanting teen die Wet op Billike Indiensneming wat in konsepvorm bekendgestel is in Desember 1997 en aanvaar is in 1998 . <\/span><span title=\"The Act was one of a number of measures implemented by the ANC to gradually but purposefully limit the percentage of whites - across all spheres of society and at all levels - to their proportion of the total South African population.\">Die Wet was een van &#8216;n aantal maatre\u00ebls deur die ANC om geleidelik maar doelbewus die persentasie blankes &#8211; op alle terreine van die samelewing en op alle vlakke &#8211; te ondergrawe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span title=\"In his speech to parliament, on August 20 1998, Tony Leon described the Bill as a &quot;pernicious piece of social engineering: pious in intention but destructive in effect.&quot;\">In sy toespraak aan die parlement op 20 Augustus 1998, het Tony Leon die wetsontwerp beskryf as &#8216;n &#8220;skadelike stuk sosiale ingenieurswese. Vroom in voorneme, maar vernietigend in effek&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"It was legislation, he continued, that &quot;ignores economic reality&quot; and &quot;does nothing for the poor, the marginalised, the rural masses in whose name the ANC govern.&quot;\">Die wetgewing, het hy voortgegaan, &#8220;ignoreer ekonomiese realiteit&#8221; en &#8220;doen niks vir die armes, die gemarginaliseerdes, die landelike mense in wie se naam die ANC regeer nie&#8221;. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span title=\"&quot;Group-based thinking as proposed in the Bill formed the cornerstone of apartheid and we have a moral, if not a political, duty to bear witness against its re-introduction in the guise of getting rid of apartheid. Using this Bill in its present\">&#8220;Gebruik van hierdie wetsontwerp in sy huidige <\/span><span title=\"form as an instrument of legalised affirmative action is dangerous: lt is like a person who lights a match to inspect a firework.&quot;\">vorm as &#8216;n instrument van gewettigde regstellende aksie is gevaarlik. Dit is soos &#8216;n persoon wat &#8216;n vuurhoutjie aansteek om &#8216;n vuurwerk te inspekteer.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span title=\"This was recognised and rewarded by white voters in the 1999 elections and they deserted the NNP and Freedom Front for the DP en masse.\">Leon is beloon deur blanke kiesers in die 1999-verkiesings wat die NNP en Vryheidsfront verlaat het. <\/span><span title=\"It would be no exaggeration to say then that the DA owes its existence as it is today to its opposition to this Act.\">Dit sou dus geen oordrywing wees om te s\u00ea dat die DA sy bestaan \u200b\u200bte danke het aan die felle teenkanting teen hierdie Wet nie.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span title=\"The Employment Equity Act subsequently proved to be essentially enabling legislation, depriving white and to a lesser extent other minority employees of any meaningful right to equal treatment.\">Die wet ontneem &#8216;n minderheid van enige betekenisvolle reg op gelyke behandeling. <\/span><span title=\"This has been one of the main contributory factors to the corruption and decay of these institutions at national, provincial and local government level.\">Dit is een van die belangrikste bydraende faktore tot die korrupsie en verval van instellings op nasionale, provinsiale en plaaslike regeringsvlak. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"Ordinary white employees who decided to stick it out often had to resign themselves to being endlessly passed over for promotion despite the crippling skills shortages in these institutions and even if unfilled vacancies opened up above them.\">Gewone wit werknemers word uitgedryf ten spyte van die verlammende tekort aan vaardighede in hierdie instellings. <\/span><span title=\"The original 1998 Act contained certain concessions towards non-racial considerations.\">Die oorspronklike 1998 Wet vervat sekere toegewings aan oorwegings<\/span><span title=\"various categories and levels, and the employer's labour turnover.&quot;\"> wat nie uitsluitlik ras as maatstaf gebruik nie.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span title=\"Under the amendment bill all the latter considerations have been excised.\">Onder die wysigingswetsontwerp is sulke oorwegings weggelaat. <\/span><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"Under the amendment bill all the latter considerations have been excised.\"><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"In order to understand the significance of this, and the potential implications for the opposition, it is necessary to first go back some fifteen years to when the original Employment Equity Act was first passed.\">Myburgh s\u00ea dit is asof die DA met sy ondersteuning hiervan pas &#8216;n koe\u00ebl deur sy eie kop gejaag het.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span title=\"If the employer fails to comply with such a request the Labour Department is now, according to the Amendment Bill, empowered to &quot;apply to the Labour Court- (a) for an order directing the employer to comply with the request or recommendation; or (\">Indien die werkgewer versuim om te voldoen aan so &#8216;n versoek van die Departement van Arbeid volgens die wysigingswetsontwerp kan<\/span><span title=\"Such fines range from &quot;The greater of R1 500 000 or 2% of the employer's turnover&quot; for a first offence up to &quot;The greater of R2 700 000 or 10% of the employer's turnover'' for a fourth violation of the same provision within\"> boetes wissel van R1 500 000 of 2% van die werkgewer se omset vir &#8216;n eerste oortreding.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"Such fines range from &quot;The greater of R1 500 000 or 2% of the employer's turnover&quot; for a first offence up to &quot;The greater of R2 700 000 or 10% of the employer's turnover'' for a fourth violation of the same provision within\">&#8216;n Boete van tot R2 700 000 of 10% van die werkgewer se omset vir &#8216;n vierde skending van dieselfde bepaling binne <\/span><span title=\"three years. The Bill will therefore allow the government to meddle in the affairs of every business with over fifty employees and potentially subject them to punitive sanctions if they do not comply with their demands.\">drie jaar sal dus toelaat dat die regering kan inmeng in die sake van elke onderneming met meer as vyftig werknemers en hulle potensieel onderwerp aan belaglike strawwe sanksies indien hulle nie by die rasbepalings hou nie.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span title=\"It is difficult to see what on earth could have come over the DA caucus in parliament to make it reverse its former opposition to this racialist and totalitarian legislation and support these amendments.\">Dit is moeilik om te begryp hoekom die DA-koukus in die parlement sy voormalige opposisie teen hierdie rassistiese en totalit\u00eare wetgewing laat vaar het en hierdie wysigings skielik steun. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"Helen Zille has in the past described the principle that lies at the heart of the Act as &quot;Verwoerdian&quot; so why would her party vote for its more stringent enforcement?\">Helen Zille het in die verlede die Wet as &#8220;Verwoerdiaans&#8221; beskryf, die grofste belediging wat sy kon uitdink. Hoekom sou haar party nou skielik stem vir strenger toepassing? <\/span><span title=\"By doing so the DA has betrayed its supporters, its history, its principles and indeed, the future of South Africa itself.\">Deur dit te doen, verraai sy haar ondersteuners, die party se sukses, sy beginsels en inderdaad die toekoms van Suid-Afrika self .<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span title=\"The Amendment Bill will, quite obviously, open the door to a dramatic escalation both in discrimination against individuals from racial minority groups as well as of state interference in the private sector.\">Die wysigingswetsontwerp sal baie duidelik die deur ooplaat vir &#8216;n dramatiese toename in beide diskriminasie teen individue van minderheidsgroepe sowel as staatsinmenging in die privaatsektor. <\/span><span title=\"Given that South Africa already suffers from a severe skills shortage it will cause enormous damage to the cause of broader black advancement, which wholly depends on increased investment, a growing economy, rising educational standards and massive job creation.\">Gegewe dat Suid-Afrika reeds ly aan &#8216;n ernstige tekort aan vaardighede sal dit geweldige ekonomiese skade <\/span><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"Given that South Africa already suffers from a severe skills shortage it will cause enormous damage to the cause of broader black advancement, which wholly depends on increased investment, a growing economy, rising educational standards and massive job creation.\"><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"Given that South Africa already suffers from a severe skills shortage it will cause enormous damage to the cause of broader black advancement, which wholly depends on increased investment, a growing economy, rising educational standards and massive job creation.\">veroorsaak.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"Given that South Africa already suffers from a severe skills shortage it will cause enormous damage to the cause of broader black advancement, which wholly depends on increased investment, a growing economy, rising educational standards and massive job creation.\"><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"While the penny may not drop before the 2014 elections at some point over the next five years the DA's white, Coloured and Indian supporters will ask themselves why they should continue to back a party that voted in parliament for their racial marginalisation.\">Voor die 2014-verkiesing sal die DA se wit, bruin en Indi\u00ebr-ondersteuners hulself moet afvra waarom hulle moet voortgaan om &#8216;n party te steun wat gestem het in die parlement vir hul rassemarginalisering.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span title=\"It is unlikely too that the DA will win over many additional black voters as a result of their new stance.\">Dit is onwaarskynlik dat die DA baie ekstra swart kiesers sal kry. <\/span><span title=\"One of the main concerns of such voters, according to Helen Zille, is that the DA would &quot;bring back apartheid&quot;.\">Een van die grootste bekommernisse van sulke kiesers, volgens Helen Zille, is dat die DA &#8220;apartheid sal terugbring&#8221;. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"Before this year one could have just laughed this off as the product of fifteen years of relentless and unscrupulous ANC propaganda.\">Die DA kan nie meer vertrou word om wit kiesers se belange te beskerm nie, want hulle het dit pas oorboord gegooi vir hul eie gerief.\u00a0 <\/span><span title=\"The author worked as a parliamentary researcher in the Democratic Party between 1997 and 2001.\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verlede week het die Nasionale Vergadering die wysigingswetsontwerp op die Wet op Billike Indiensneming met die steun van die regerende ANC \u00e9n die Demokratiese Alliansie ingestem, skryf &#8216;n voormalige parlement\u00eare navorser van die DP. Ten einde die betekenis hiervan asook die potensi\u00eble implikasies vir die opposisie te verstaan, \u200b\u200bs\u00ea James Myburgh, is dit nodig om &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/?p=19035\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;DA het pas koe\u00ebl deur sy eie kop gejaag&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,51],"tags":[227,7631,6688,13898,12601,13897,13899,13895,13896],"class_list":["post-19035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nuus","category-suider-afrika","tag-anc","tag-demokratiese-alliansie","tag-helen-zille","tag-judasbok","tag-nasionale-vergadering","tag-rasse-agenda","tag-verwoerdiaans","tag-wet-op-billike-indiensneming","tag-wysigingswetsontwerp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}