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The BBC asks: Do white people have a future in South Africa?

Poor white people in South Africa live in large squatter communities with mosquitoes, very few toilets, stagnant dirty water, no plumbing, and no electricity. About 400,000 white people live in such primitive conditions. In other words, poor white people in South Africa live like poor black people in South Africa.

Rich white South Africans, especially farmers, are being murdered by angry black South Africans. This is not good. Zimbabwe suffered greatly when the white farmers were expelled.

Of course, the whites still have most of the money and corporate power, although that share is declining. The black share of the country’s income has not changed since the end of apartheid. The group who really benefited from the end of apartheid was the Asians  (mostly Indian), whose share of the country’s income increased significantly. Even more impressive is the fact that Asians are less the 3% of South Africa’s population, and had more than 30% of the country’s income in 2008.

The graph on the BBC article shows share of income by race from 1993 to 2008. If the trend remained consistent to 2013, it seems like whites and Asians would have an almost equal share of the country’s income. The majority, the blacks, are still stuck at about 7%.

At some point, probably when Nelson Mandela dies, the country will descend into chaos.