From: Pierre Schnehage [mailto:pierre@airtimeproductions.co.za]
Sent: 12 February 2007 12:44 PM
To: 'mbekit@dpo.pwv.gov.za'
Subject: Dear Sir
Importance: High

I don't understand.

Apartheid is gone.

There are many white people wanting to make a difference in this country.

Granted, those who went before us made some hideous mistakes, acting in their own fear.

But they are not us.

But now, as it seems to many, our country is crumbling.

BEE, in the way it is enforced, is working against itself.

Whites are surviving on their own because they have some skills.

Axing us from the market only builds the lager mentality Nelson swore he was against.

"Never again..." he said.

We don't have services. If we do, they're so expensive as to build real animosity to brands you should not have shares in.

The prognosis looks grim.

 
I do not believe in critisizing merely for it's own sake.

But I need to say this.

My mother was card carrying ANC member in '85.

It's not as though I don't or didn't understand the struggle.

I was victimised for my family openly associating with black people.

She is disillusioned. The causes she believed in leave her in denial and in tears.

I am disillusioned.

I did not think that the market, in the end, would win.

So where do I go now?

"Pack for Perth" as 1.5 million of my fellow countrymen have.

Or do I stay?

What are the chances of this country ending up like Zim?

The prognosis looks grim.

Yours Sincerely

Pierre