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, but because of his choice of lifestyle, as portrayed in the media. Kunene’s lavish lifestyle can be argued as showing little or no signs of Ubuntu – lifestyle of clubbing, alcohol and expensive cars.

 

Tokyo Sexwale’s humanity and sense of Ubuntu has been shown in the media with regards to him being a political leader and a selfless businessman. In the report, Minister Tokyo Sexwale hands over 56 women built houses, it was reported that Sexwale was involved in a project aimed to uplift women and help women of a community, build houses (GCIS, 2012). The media portrays more positive aspects of Sexwale, rather than negative stories about him. Sexwale can thus be labelled as a positive Black Diamond because he is selfless, gives back to the community and his work allows him to have a responsibility to take care of communities and give back, just like how he was able to give back when he handed over one hundred houses to a community (Independent Online, 2012).

 

Discussion of qualitative data in questionnaire:

 

Overall responses:

 

There were ten out of sixteen teenagers who had an understanding of the term, Black Diamond. One of the teenagers asked, said that they understood the term to be when a black person uses connections to become successful, for example, BEE, nepotism or tenders and the other teenager understood it to be a young black person who is successful or wealthy and lives a westernised lifestyle. From one of the sources in the Review of Literature, SA’s ‘Black diamonds’ grow by 30% in a year, the standard definition of a Black Diamond was given: A group of black South Africans categorised according to their wealth and suitable occupations. When compared to the answer that the teenagers gave, most of them who knew what a Black Diamond was, seemed to have a general perception of just a successful black person who lives a lavish lifestyle.

 

Some of the teenagers said that they considered their parents as Black Diamonds because of their parents’ occupations and their shared ownership in private companies. They also said that their parents were successful and owned their own houses and cars, thus they viewed them as Black Diamonds.

 

When the university students were asked about their understanding of the term Black Diamond, the responses were quite detailed; one of the responses was that “Black Diamonds are part of the Black population usually between ages 25 and 40 who are in a corporate environment or have their own businesses and are earning at least a six-figure salary; aspire to a glamorous lifestyle be it expensive cars, clothing etc.” Another university student’s answer was “it refers to South Africa's emerging, influential Black middle class. There was a study conducted between 2006 and 2007, during a period where the Black middle class grew by 30%, and following that, there was a lot of talk and focus on the Black middle class. It was mainly an economic focus as the Black middle class were contributing a large amount to South Africa's economy. Ther本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。