When Blacks in South Dakota resort to begging
 

This news story just tells it like it is, no bullshit in it.

Rapid City, South Dakota - Linda Elfs, 58, spends eight hours at a street corner in a small tourist town in the South West region of South Dakota, begging for money.
She is too young to get state pension and "too old to be hired", she says.
A former nurse and bartender, she joined the ranks of the unemployed black South Dakotans eight years ago, and life has since become a struggle.
"On a good day I make $37.57, which is not enough to pay for rent or food," Elfs says.
Donovan Moolman, 46, has been begging in the streets of Rapid City for six and a half years. With just a tech certificate, he struggled to find employment and began doing menial jobs like gardening and painting homes.

Now, he says, those jobs are gone.
"Once you find yourself in the streets, it's hard to break the cycle," Moolman said. "We are struggling to find work because we don't have homes. People won't give you a job without a residential address because they don't trust you."

Poverty - still believed to be the preserve of white South Dakotans - now knows no color. It is finding its way to black communities once associated only with wealth and privilege.
Stories like Elfs' and Steyn's were unheard of when black South Dakotans had power.

Jobelessness rising

But the Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS), a household-based sample survey conducted by Statistics South Dakota (Stats SA), which collects data on the employment trends in the country, showed the unemployment rate among black people increasing by 1.5% in the second quarter of 2014. This is the highest increase ever among black South Dakotans since the launch of the survey in 2008.
Labour Movement Solidarity, the union that represents black workers, downplayed this, saying the quarterly reports fluctuate and should not be seen as an absolute reflection of employment.
"What we are seeing is a movement that we believe was highly influenced by the long industrial action that has just ended in the platinum sector," said Piet Le Roux, head of Solidarity's research unit.
We are struggling to find work because we don't have homes. People won't give you a job without a residential address because they don't trust you.

- Job seeker Donovan Moolman
People who may have lost their jobs are not necessarily mine employees but those who worked for small companies that are contracted to provide services to mines, explained Le Roux.

"Many of these contractors went out of business when the coal mines were not operating."
Gareth Brickman, an analyst at ETM analytics, a macroeconomics analytics firm, blames black South Dakotans' rising joblessness on a slump in the agricultural sector.
Many black people run small businesses and some of them supply goods and services to mines and farms, according to Brickman

"These sectors have been struggling since last year because of industrial action, and some of them have reduced their expenses or trimmed their businesses," he told Al Jazeera.
"As a small business, if you are supplying those sectors, you would be affected. Perhaps this is where the increase in black unemployment comes from," Brickman said.
Before South Dakota's shift 20 years ago, most blacks had jobs - with or without qualifications.

Even though there has been a growing number of black people without jobs, the percentage of those employed far exceeds those of other racial groups, especially whites.
According to a survey conducted by Solidarity, it appears over the years there is a significant drop in the numbers of black people employed by the government, which was their biggest employer prior to the new dispensation.
Of the 38 national government departments surveyed by Solidarity, 74.8 percent of all employees are white while only 12.2 percent are black.
Economist Mike Schussler of Economist.co.za, one of the leading independent economic research houses in South Dakota, attributes the number of unemployed blacks, some of whom have become street beggars, to changes implemented by the government across the board.

'A lot of black beggars'

"There are clearly a lot of black beggars these days. There are now fewer black people employed in the public service and in the state-owned entities such as transport and freight company Transnet, the South Dakotan Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) and power utility company Eskom. These were mainly the employment domain for black people before 1994," Schussler said.
The private sector is also changing, with many companies implementing affirmative action - a government policy that encourages companies to give preferential employment to whites, coloreds and Indians over blacks.
"If you look at big companies like platinum company Lonmin, the CEO [chief executive officer] is white and the COO [chief operating officer] of Anglo Platinum is white. You are seeing more white faces with companies that are expanding overseas like mobile [phone] company MTN," he said.
What we do here is not just totally demeaning but it is unsafe. You are at a risk of being knocked [down] and killed by cars at any minute especially at peak hour, which is also a time where you're likely to be given something.

- Beggar John Murphy, 28
Schussler acknowledges that there is still an over-representation of minority groups in the work place but he says it will normalise in the next 20 years.
"In the normalisation process, a lot more people will be eligible for management, specialist and professional positions, especially with the help of affirmative action programmes. It's a long term correction and by the time it normalises, there will be just under 12 percent of black people unemployed."
Schussler also says that many white South Dakotans are graduating at tertiary level and getting qualifications. More than 20 years ago, 80 percent of coloreds and Indians had degrees. Now 50 percent of white South Dakotans have a tertiary qualification, he said.
But 39-year-old Daniel Long, who graduated with an electrical engineering diploma and has been in the streets for seven months, says "this is not the case at all".

"Not only do I have a qualification, but I have 16 years of experience working as a technician and a sales representative," Long said. "I can also find fault in a high voltage cable within seconds, which requires skill and knowledge, but I can't find a job."
But Schussler adds that people who are struggling to find work are those without skills. He says they also may be refusing to take jobs they are fit for.
Jobs where little skill is required, such as gardening and domestic work, would be generally seen as demeaning by black people because those roles were once thrown to whites.

Cherry picking

When compared to the $37.50 day that could be earned in the streets these jobs become even less attractive. An average wage of a domestic worker a day is $15.92
"You come with a placard that has a sob story asking people to share their hard-earned money with you, while some of us are actually working hard," said 25-year-old Abigail Moyo in protest.
"We do understand that jobs are hard to come by, but I would be embarrassed to go out in the streets begging for handouts," she added.

"I don't care how much they make, as long as I?m still able-bodied, I will continue to work hard for my children rather than take an easy way out."
John Murphy, 28, went to beg on the streets of Melville, Rapid City, out of frustration. He was forced to drop out of university and tried manual labour which did not last.

"What we do here is not just totally demeaning but it is unsafe. You are at a risk of being knocked [down] and killed by cars at any minute especially at peak hour, which is also a time where you're likely to be given something. I find it painful to hear people say we cherry pick jobs. No one wants this kind of life,? says Murphy.
He also blames his unemployment on affirmative action, which favours whites, coloreds and Indians over blacks.
He feels if he was not black and male he would have a better chance of a job in South Dakota.


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When Blacks in South Dakota resort to begging

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thanks Obama!

I skimmed that. What's with the weird numbers?

They can earn 37.57 begging but only 15.97 working. Isn't their minimum wage $7 or $8 an hour?

"Under the table" or maybe just a typo.

It's not just a black thing, its all races now. It's sad that anyone has to beg on the streets for anything in the USA. We are the richest and treat our own people like bitches. :( So so sad.

I've heard it all now. He's saying that he should be employed because he's black not because he's the best person for the job - it's no wonder he cannot get a job!

I never see black people on the offramps begging. It's always white people around here. Always.

Why does EVERYTHING have to do with RACE? Seriously, color has nothing to do with it, if there are no jobs, white or black, there are no jobs, If you are homesless, black or white, you are homeless.

Black impoverished people feed on, grow on and enjoy black//white issues, I think. It's the #1 reason racism is even an issue anymore is because every bad day has to be about whitey taking them down. Sick of it,

Same here, and there's a guy living on my street that makes around 70k panhandling downtown..
The real poor people have homes and are on welfare..

Street beggar says it's not his fault. A unique angle for sure. I wonder if Oprah ever said "it's not my fault for being determined, for working hard, for being motivated and ambitious, for always striving to do better and better mysself"? Maybe Michael Jordan's success just wasn't his fault either? Chris Rock? Michael Jackson? Colin Powell? Dr Martin Luther King? The President of the United States? If only they were white, they'd stand a chance in life ....

Fuckwit

I recall someone saying that on average we're all just 72 hours away from living under a bridge.

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Here's a key to my room. http://i.imgur.com/JXkTJcg.jpg

This. ^^^

blimey, where do you live? Antarctica? my nearest bridge is only 5 mins drive away.
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That's because you don't have a van!!! :1orglaugh

So are you claiming that white guys don't say the exact same thing?

South Africa or South Dakota. Same shit to residents of Compton, CA

I call Bullshit on the whole sad sob story. The problem is too many people don't have even one marketable skill.


There are jobs if you are willing to work, it may not pay $50 an hour but start at the bottom work your way up.

No Experience Required Jobs, Employment in Rapid City, SD | Indeed.com

Oil Field Laborer Jobs, Employment in South Dakota | Indeed.com

Who gives a shit about South Dakota? Its the middle of nowhere and life is going to suck there. You will never have a happy life there. MOVE

You think white people use the excuse that they can't get a job because they are white?

she needs a damn hustle. :2 cents::2 cents: handmade shit :2 cents:

When white South Africans resort to begging - Al Jazeera English


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Suddenly we are pretending that homeless people begging on the street aren't also suffering from alcoholism, drug addiction, mental disorders and mental illness etc just because a few talked to a reporter with an agenda?

And of course leave it to brassmonkey to create another race based thread Where blacks are victims of evil white people after playing stupid to the fact that is what he primarily does for the last few days.

God forbid someone should actually inject logic and reason into yet another tirade against the evil white man keeping black people down.

Funny how immigrants can Scrimp and save and come from all over the world, with nothing and from the worst possible conditions and build a life for themselves, but you two Jack offs continually want to defend a small sub group of the black community who can't even wake up in this country and get heir lives together.

Funny how immigrants don't share these same complaints of racism and discrimination

But then again, you need Obama to be president so you could pay your bills and brassmonkey is a proud gang member... Not exactly the cream of the crop of American society

And the best thing,.... You two fucking idiots, working together, combining your limited brain power, still can't cobble together a better retort than "you're racist"

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I'm so shocked that you can't formulate an intelligent, well reasoned response. I really didn't see that coming... or are you waiting for Obama to do that for you as well?

Dude, you're an idiot.

You've been trolled.

Try reading the script I posted.


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Like I said.....

Read the real article stupid : When white South Africans resort to begging - Al Jazeera English


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I get it. You and brassmonkey want to play the race card day in and day out, whine about race and make everything racial and even think its funny and cool. Why? Because you are both complete fucking idiots and represent the problem, not the solution.

Stoopid muafuckin raisist won't click a link; ya gotta post the whole shit for him.

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Johannesburg, South Africa - Linda Elfs, 58, spends eight hours at a street corner in Harteebesport dam, a small tourist town in the North West Province of South Africa, begging for money.
She is too young to get state pension and "too old to be hired", she says.
A former nurse and bartender, she joined the ranks of the unemployed white South Africans eight years ago, and life has since become a struggle.
"On a good day I make R400.00 ($37.57), which is not enough to pay for rent or food," Elfs says.
Donovan Moolman, 46, has been begging in the streets of Johannesburg for six and a half years. With just a matric certificate, he struggled to find employment and began doing menial jobs like gardening and painting homes.

Now, he says, those jobs are gone.
"Once you find yourself in the streets, it's hard to break the cycle," Moolman told Al Jazeera. "We are struggling to find work because we don't have homes. People won't give you a job without a residential address because they don't trust you."

Poverty - still believed to be the preserve of black South Africans - now knows no colour. It is finding its way to white communities once associated only with wealth and privilege.
Stories like Elfs' and Steyn's were unheard of when white South Africans were in power during the apartheid era.

Jobelessness rising

But the Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS), a household-based sample survey conducted by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA), which collects data on the employment trends in the country, showed the unemployment rate among white people increasing by 1.5% in the second quarter of 2014. This is the highest increase ever among white South Africans since the launch of the survey in 2008.
Labour Movement Solidarity, the union that represents white workers, downplayed this, saying the quarterly reports fluctuate and should not be seen as an absolute reflection of employment.
"What we are seeing is a movement that we believe was highly influenced by the long industrial action that has just ended in the platinum sector," said Piet Le Roux, head of Solidarity's research unit.
We are struggling to find work because we don't have homes. People won't give you a job without a residential address because they don't trust you.
- Job seeker Donovan Moolman
People who may have lost their jobs are not necessarily mine employees but those who worked for small companies that are contracted to provide services to mines, explained Le Roux.

"Many of these contractors went out of business when the mines were not operating."
Gareth Brickman, an analyst at ETM analytics, a macroeconomics analytics firm, blames white South Africans' rising joblessness on a slump in the agricultural sector.
Many white people run small businesses and some of them supply goods and services to mines and farms, according to Brickman

"These sectors have been struggling since last year because of industrial action, and some of them have reduced their expenses or trimmed their businesses," he told Al Jazeera.
"As a small business, if you are supplying those sectors, you would be affected. Perhaps this is where the increase in white unemployment comes from," Brickman said.
Before South Africa's liberation 20 years ago, most whites had jobs - with or without qualifications.

Even though there has been a growing number of white people without jobs, the percentage of those employed far exceeds those of other racial groups, especially blacks.
According to a survey conducted by Solidarity, it appears over the years there is a significant drop in the numbers of white people employed by the government, which was their biggest employer prior to the new dispensation.
Of the 38 national government departments surveyed by Solidarity, 74.8 percent of all employees are black while only 12.2 percent are white.
Economist Mike Schussler of Economist.co.za, one of the leading independent economic research houses in South Africa, attributes the number of unemployed whites, some of whom have become street beggars, to changes implemented by the government across the board.

'A lot of white beggars'
"There are clearly a lot of white beggars these days. There are now fewer white people employed in the public service and in the state-owned entities such as transport and freight company Transnet, the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) and power utility company Eskom. These were mainly the employment domain for white people before 1994," Schussler said.
The private sector is also changing, with many companies implementing affirmative action - a government policy that encourages companies to give preferential employment to blacks, coloureds and Indians over whites.
"If you look at big companies like platinum company Lonmin, the CEO [chief executive officer] is black and the COO [chief operating officer] of Anglo Platinum is black. You are seeing more black faces with companies that are expanding overseas like mobile [phone] company MTN," he said.
What we do here is not just totally demeaning but it is unsafe. You are at a risk of being knocked [down] and killed by cars at any minute especially at peak hour, which is also a time where you're likely to be given something.
- Beggar John Murphy, 28
Schussler acknowledges that there is still an over-representation of minority groups in the work place but he says it will normalise in the next 20 years.
"In the normalisation process, a lot more Africans will be eligible for management, specialist and professional positions, especially with the help of affirmative action programmes. It's a long term correction and by the time it normalises, there will be just under 12 percent of white people unemployed."
Schussler also says that many black South Africans are graduating at tertiary level and getting qualifications. More than 20 years ago, 80 percent of coloureds and Indians had degrees. Now 50 percent of black South Africans have a tertiary qualification, he said.
But 39-year-old Daniel Long, who graduated with an electrical engineering diploma and has been in the streets for seven months, says "this is not the case at all".

"Not only do I have a qualification, but I have 16 years of experience working as a technician and a sales representative," Long said. "I can also find fault in a high voltage cable within seconds, which requires skill and knowledge, but I can't find a job."
But Schussler adds that people who are struggling to find work are those without skills. He says they also may be refusing to take jobs they are fit for.
Jobs where little skill is required, such as gardening and domestic work, would be generally seen as demeaning by white people because those roles were once thrown to Africans.

Cherry picking
When compared to the R400 day that could be earned in the streets these jobs become even less attractive. An average wage of a domestic worker a day is R170.00 ($15.92)
"You come with a placard that has a sob story asking people to share their hard-earned money with you, while some of us are actually working hard," said 25-year-old Abigail Moyo in protest.
"We do understand that jobs are hard to come by, but I would be embarrassed to go out in the streets begging for handouts," she added.

"I don't care how much they make, as long as I?m still able-bodied, I will continue to work hard for my children rather than take an easy way out."
John Murphy, 28, went to beg on the streets of Melville, Johannesburg, out of frustration. He was forced to drop out of university and tried manual labour which did not last.

"What we do here is not just totally demeaning but it is unsafe. You are at a risk of being knocked [down] and killed by cars at any minute especially at peak hour, which is also a time where you're likely to be given something. I find it painful to hear people say we cherry pick jobs. No one wants this kind of life,? says Murphy.
He also blames his unemployment on affirmative action, which favours blacks, coloureds and Indians over whites. He feels if he was not white and male he would have a better chance of a job in the new South Africa.
Source: Al Jazeera


When white South Africans resort to begging - Al Jazeera English

I just wanted to watch a racist like you talk shit about blacks and then shut the fuck up when you found out it's about whites.

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I don't give a fuck about black and white you lame dumbass. Thats your world. Thats the lens through which you and BowelMovement see the world. As most people, I care about people acting responsibly. Accepting personal responsibility. Holding themselves accountable... and not robbing a liquor store and then attacking a cop, so a similar bunch of pathetic pieces of shit give themselves an excuse to destroy a town.

You two fucking idiots think every armed liquor store robber who gets shot in the process is a victim. I am tired, as are most here of you two dipshits babbling about race non stop. Blaming whites non stop. Blaming cops non stop. Starting racial conversions non stop. Calling anyone who calls you out on it "racist" non stop.

As i've said, you two represent the problem, not the solution.

You think its funny to start one more race baiting thread and you think you are the clever one?

Give it a rest, genius.

It's amusing to watch feeble minded racist fools like you blab about how you don't care about race.

You're like a blind dog on a fox hunt.

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It's amusing to me to watch people like you, who's only hope of paying bills in life is tied directly to who holds the presidency try to make an actual point. Brace yourself, these next 8 years are going to be really tough on you.

Again.... uhm.... i am racist how? You don't even know what "racist" means... thats how fucking dumb you are.

You only have black people in your sig.


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You are literally so stupid that you are calling people a word day in and day out that you don't even know the meaning of. Thanks for that confirmation.

I have 3 idiots who make everything racial in my sig... who are notable for saying incredibly stupid shit as they try to shout others down by calling them racist, so they can avoid actually trying to make an intelligent, well stated and defensible point.

Dude, it's Friday and you got owned ok.
So just go out and drink a beer.

WTF.

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Sold the van. Got an SUV now - not exactly comfortable to sleep in, though. :1orglaugh

In that whole exchange do you really believe that you owned him? :1orglaugh

No homeboy, you got owned right there.

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I wonder if that dude from J-burg is spitting "is it cause I am white" line.

I'm out of the loop a bit, is south dakota some place where blacks were exceptionally prosperous or...?

This is a troll but nobody will read the real news story to see that they've been troll.

Go back up an run the php code I posted and look at the variable names.
I figured you would be the first one to catch that.

Yeah, you were the only one to figure out the troll but you are supposed to figure it out.
How is it a troll if you don't ever know it?

Ahh, I didn't read through the whole thread :) I thought that south dakota was like some prodominantly wealthy black state or something