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Since 1998, the South African government has established radical measures intended, not just to fight discrimination, but also to rectify the inequalities produced by the Apartheid regime. At the forefront of these measures is the Employment Equity Act (EEA), which was adopted in 1998. One might expect this law to strongly protect the beneficiaries of affirmative action, and courts to rarely rule in favor of whites when they sued for unjust racial discrimination. Yet it turns out that, in the majority of lawsuits in which a judge finds there has been unjust discrimination, it is on behalf of white plaintiffs. On the basis of this paradox, this article examines the nature of the arguments exchanged in labor courts, arguments that supply the basis for the judge’s distinction between just and unjust racial discrimination. These lawsuits cast new light on the victim of post-Apartheid discrimination, a figure whose contours no longer neatly coincide with a black-white line of division.