The Importance of Race-Based Policies in South Africa

David Frum: The source of South Africa's problems is in our heightened racialism. He says that black people are not interchangeable for each other, that they are their own individuals. And when you have a policy that preferences race as opposed to something neutral like disadvantage, it's a very good way of advancing a particular set of individuals who either have the correct political affiliation or are a part of a different old boys club., he said.