TopGun, under the previous dispensation you had access to the best schools, the best neighbourhoods and the best jobs - simply by virtue of your pigmentation, or lack thereof. Affirmative Action worked brilliantly under the old regime but now that the beneficiaries are Black, AA has become a swearword. So in the past while you may not have been given shares at a discount you were given every other opportunity to participate in the economy which gave you the resources to buy your shares. While I'm also not in favour of all these ill-advised get-rich-quick schemes e.g. BEE BBBEE which allow an elite Black minority to get richer while the masses still are jobless, homeless, waterless, electricityless and jobless, I simply cannot allow your comments to go unchallenged. There are 2 sides to every story.
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