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"suddenly powerless Anglo minority". That's just factually incorrect when you look at who controlled the businesses in South African at that stage: Many promine
by nroets 1y ago
"suddenly powerless Anglo minority". That's just factually incorrect when you look at who controlled the businesses in South African at that stage: Many prominent blue blooded Englishmen. And also Oppenheimers and Ackersmans who were of Jewish decent but identified as Anglo.
Anglo schools and universities thrived.
Englishmen could vote etc.
- SideburnsOfDoom 1y agoPolitical power was tightly held by the Afrikaners in the era of Apartheid South Africa, 1948 to 1990s. But as you say, that did not mean that English speakers were "powerless". They were merely half a rung down on the apartheid social ladder. And still near the top.
- Biologist123 1y agoAfrikaners held political power, English-descendents economic power.
- SideburnsOfDoom 1y agoThere was a saying at the time, the details of which I can't find any more (google balks due to the density of hot-button words) but it basically basically went: "Apartheid means Socialism for Afrikaners, Capitalism for the English (-speaking white people) and serfdom for the rest."