PRETORIA—The lines creasing Wilhelm Snyman’s sun-scorched face make him look much older than 46.
“It’s also the stress of the past six years that has made me look like an ou toppie [old man],” he said near the United States embassy in Pretoria.
Snyman lost his job in the computer industry in 2019 and said he’s been unable to find permanent work since then.
“So one day the boss called me in and told me he had to retrench me and some other white guys. He had to replace us with black employees because of the government’s affirmative action policies,” he told The Epoch Times. “Fortunately, my wife still has a job—but it’s humiliating as a man to sit at home every day doing nothing, and just keeping busy with an odd job here and there.”…