{"id":12634,"date":"2012-12-08T23:44:55","date_gmt":"2012-12-08T23:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=12634"},"modified":"2012-12-08T23:44:55","modified_gmt":"2012-12-08T23:44:55","slug":"orphanage-too-white-for-donations-from-bee-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/08\/orphanage-too-white-for-donations-from-bee-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Orphanage Too White for BEE Companies Donations"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12681\" alt=\"paris-hilton-africa photoshoot\" src=\"http:\/\/whisnews21.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/paris-hilton-africa-photoshoot.jpg\" height=\"337\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/paris-hilton-africa-photoshoot.jpg 600w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/paris-hilton-africa-photoshoot-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Orphanage &#8216;Too White&#8217; For South African Donations<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">The same orphanage that Paris\u00a0Hilton\u00a0got some good press exposure at the expense of the students at the Jakaranda\u00a0Orphanage School in Pretoria, South Africa<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12683\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12683\" style=\"width: 131px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-12683\" alt=\"hiltonphotoshoot\" src=\"http:\/\/whisnews21.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/looks-like-hilton-will-adobt-this-girl.jpg?w=131\" height=\"150\" width=\"131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/looks-like-hilton-will-adobt-this-girl.jpg 363w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/looks-like-hilton-will-adobt-this-girl-263x300.jpg 263w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 131px) 100vw, 131px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12683\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looks like hilton\u00a0may adobt this orphan girl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Johannesburg &#8211; A Pretoria orphanage says it is no longer getting financial support from large companies as 70% of the children in its care are white. (I must add that this is probably the only orphanage\u00a0In Africa who has more white orphans than black orphans, most South African Orphanages only have black orphans, but that&#8217;s ok?)<\/p>\n<p>Elzane\u00a0van der Merwe of the Jacaranda children\u2019s home said:\u201cThe only answer that the children\u2019s home is getting is: \u2018Sorry, you don\u2019t meet the criteria for 100% black economic empowerment (BEE),\u201d reported <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beeld.com\/Suid-Afrika\/Nuus\/Jammer-jul-weeskinders-is-te-wit-20121206\">Beeld<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But Van der Merwe said the children\u2019s home couldn\u2019t choose which children to take in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo us a child is a child. We don\u2019t discriminate. Here we have 250 children between 18 months and 18 years that need care, regardless of race or gender.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12682\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12682\" style=\"width: 148px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12682 \" alt=\"Orphan girl\" src=\"http:\/\/whisnews21.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/orphan.jpg\" height=\"137\" width=\"148\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12682\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">While\u00a0This orphan girl will soon be dumped in the street<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>She said that even though the department of trade and industry had withdrawn the new suggested BEE codes, welfare organisations countrywide were still affected.<\/p>\n<p>The suggested codes award points to companies for their BEE programs and donations. If companies donate to any organization with more whites than the BEE allows they lose their 30 pieces if silver from the SA government.<\/p>\n<p>She said their income had dropped drastically due to the BEE codes, even though there was an increase in the children that needed care.<\/p>\n<p>The home only looks after children placed in its care by court order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orphanage &#8216;Too White&#8217; For South African Donations The same orphanage that Paris\u00a0Hilton\u00a0got some good press exposure at the expense of the students at the Jakaranda\u00a0Orphanage School in Pretoria, South Africa Johannesburg &#8211; A Pretoria orphanage says it is no longer getting financial support from large companies as 70% of the children in its care are white. (I must add that this is probably the only orphanage\u00a0In Africa who has more white orphans than black orphans, most South African Orphanages only have black orphans, but that&#8217;s ok?) Elzane\u00a0van der Merwe of<a href=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/08\/orphanage-too-white-for-donations-from-bee-companies\/\" class=\"read-more\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12634"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}