Against the tide of ‘justifiable discrimination’
Re-engineering identity and options among minority (Indian) medical graduates in South Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20487217 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anand Singh (0000-0003-3607-4303, University of KwaZulu-Natal), Anand B Singh (0000-0002-7139-6511), Soomaya Khan (University of KwaZulu-Natal) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-12 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Diaspora Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0973-9572 • E-ISSN: 0976-3457 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09739572.2013.843288 |
| OpenAlex | W2030838102 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
South Africans voted for their first democratically elected government on 27 April 1994, with the belief that economic opportunities, accessibility to political office as well as to educational facilities would no longer be based upon criteria that are racialised. The hope was entrenched in the African National Congress's Freedom Charter of 1955 that was devised as a working framework for post-apartheid South Africa. Couched in the most non-racialised language, the Freedom Charter served as a beacon of hope for a discrimination free South Africa. Amidst all the euphoria and enthusiasm there lay ahead of its re-visited policies a plethora of machinations that has given rise to the crudest forms of Africanisation through the marginalisation of other racial categories, including the Indian and Coloured minorities. These two population categories were inclusively referred to as ‘Black’ during the struggle against apartheid. ‘Equity’, ‘Affirmative Action’ and ‘Black Economic Empowerment’ – have become the buzz
Affirmative action · Charter · Economic growth · Empowerment · Enthusiasm · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Public Administration · South African History and Culture
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2014 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |