http://www.timeslive.co....white-to-study-medicine

THE University of Stellenbosch reversed its decision to grant a pupil a place in medical school - after discovering that she was white, not coloured, as she had mistakenly stated in her online application.

The 18-year-old applicant, who asked that she not be named, achieved six distinctions in her Grade 11 exams and, in September, learnt the university had accepted her application. But, on October 13, Dr Ronel Retief, the head of academic administration, phoned her to verify her race.

The teenager told Retief she was white - and was informed this would affect her chances of being admitted to study medicine.

University spokesman Susan van der Merwe said the pupil's selection was reversed after it came to light that the applicant made "a bona fide mistake" on the application form.

"The decision was taken to safeguard the integrity and fairness of the process in terms of the more than 550 candidates who had not been selected and who, based on merit, were ranked higher."

This is South Africa, not Canada.

Apartheid happened there. Accordingly the government has given itself a mandate to provide spots for its largely impoverished but growing native population, regardless of the harm done to former colonialist whites. Personally I see nothing wrong with it. Countries like Japan are inward and xenophobic that they hardly even allow foreign migration in the first place. Japan, mind you, has never had problems with colonialism and oppression because of its distrust of foreigners.

stupid school!