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The explanatory statement quite rightly denounces the ‘social’ apartheid that continues apartheid pure and simple, and claims to act to ‘reduce the gap between the poor and the rich.’
If this were even slightly true, we would vote in favour of this report, but we have our doubts, because the main sector mentioned as destined to receive a restructuring benefit of EUR 15 million is the South African wines and spirits sector. It seems doubtful that this type of assistance will reach the townships, the squalid and crowded districts where the poor live.
The report does not even make it possible to rule out the hypothesis that, among the wine producers in question, besides rich South Africans, there are also big Western companies.
Furthermore, nothing makes it possible to verify that the ‘direct budgetary support’ is indeed going toward social budgets or public utilities and not, for example, toward the purchase of arms and military and police equipment to confront the poor.
This being so, we prefer to abstain."@en1
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