A high court in South Africa on Wednesday decided that Chinese-South Africans will be reclassified as 'black,' a term that includes black Africans, Indians and others who recieved less benefits under apartheid. As a result of this nonsense, Chinese citizens will be able to benefit from government affirmative action policies aimed at undoing the effects of apartheid.
The Chinese Association of South Africa sued the government, claiming that its members were being discriminated against because they were being treated as whites and thus failed to qualify for business contracts and job promotions reserved for 'victims' of apartheid. The association successfully argued that, since Chinese-South Africans had been treated unequally under apartheid, they should be reclassified in order to redress wrongs of the past. They did not mention that the Chinese benefited almost as much as the whites during the apartheid era. They were able to live in their own communities and now they can not.
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