How 'equity' ideology plunged South Africa into inequality and chaos

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : Many others joined the white suburban elite and sent their kids to private schools.
48% : The old revolutionary songs were dusted off at rallies, but somewhere along the line, the Beautiful Idea replaced socialism as our ideological lodestar.
44% : In addition to paying taxes at Scandinavian levels, South African corporations were required to cede large ownership stakes to black partners, whether or not they brought anything to the table besides black skin and connections in high places
43% : The object of this new game was not to destroy capitalism, but to force it to open its doors to aspirant blacks.
40% : Until the mid-1980s, the aims of our freedom struggle were the eradication of capitalism and the creation of a classless society where equity would be enforced at gunpoint by commissars.

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