ABSTRACT
Some observers might say that this turnabout is fair play and that whites are simply reaping what they sowed following centuries of racial domination that saw the white minority run roughshod over the indigenous African community. Indeed, this is the very position of the hyper-nationalist Pan African Congress (PAC), a party that has long demanded more extreme forms of redistribution to rectify the legacy of apartheid. Unfortunately, such redistribution comes at a cost in terms of declining economic performance, as the collapse of Zimbabwe and Uganda (two states that told their
economically dominant ethnic communities that their presence was no longer desired) so amply demonstrates. In both cases, public support for economic expropriation benefited from radical income inequalities similar to South Africa’s.
