School children stand on the back of a pick-up truck and in front of a double story shack as they wait to go to school at the Coronation Park recreation area in Johannesburg, South Africa, 2 September 2009. The poor white community of Coronation Park in Johannesburg hit the headlines in South Africa recently when the community won a court case stopping their forced removal by the state. The state had claimed they where living in the park land without permission and where due to relocated them to state land however the communities lawyer argued that the land that had been set aside for them. Seventy poor white families live in the public park space with no running water or electricity. They receive no government support at all claiming that this is because they are white. The community relies on public food hand-outs, and NGO aid to survive. Many have been retrenched due to the affirmative action policies instigated by the post-apartheid South African government while others are disabled and can not find work. Some are also social outcasts with most living in tents, wooden huts or caravans. The controversial affirmative action policies was introduced after the end of white rule to allow black South African's equal opportunities in the work place. This led to thousands of whites loosing their jobs either directly or in-directly. Between 1997 and 2002 white unemployment had risen by 106 per cent and although an exact figure for the number of poor whites in South Africa is not available, there are over a million unemployed white South Africans