Namibia sent a delegation to Tehran to "convey heartfelt condolences" during Ayatollah Khameini's funeral.
Namibia is a mostly Christian, black African democracy, as is South Africa, another of Iran's major boosters. Yet they back a Persian Shi’a Muslim dictatorship that supports global terrorism, including in Africa. Even more bizarrely, Namibia and South Africa’s politics are dominated by liberation era parties, but they sympathize not with freedom-seeking Iranian protesters but with the regime that cracks down with the type of brutality reminiscent of the very worst colonial violence in Africa.
What explains such a contradiction? Mostly this: many governing elites from African liberation movements are staunchly anti-Western. They are so for different reasons, but the outcome is the same: they downplay or even support horrifying brutality as long as it is committed by their ideological comrades “resisting” the West. They reserve their moral condemnations for the West and its allies such as Israel.
That they’re willing to do so for a regime as repugnant at Tehran’s demonstrates two things. 1) just how radical their anti-Westernism is. There are few crimes they won’t overlook as long as they're in service of the anti-Western cause. And 2) that the liberation movements that want the world to believe they are voices of conscience are actually ideologues defending some of the world’s worst regimes.
Tonight on Sizok’thola, we look at drug dens masquerading as legitimate businesses in our towns.
The national effort to combat drug abuse is not yielding the desired results. The challenge is worsening, and those actively involved in the fight are increasingly facing attacks.
@DrZaphnathP@VusiThembekwayo This was not the question. And as a Christian too, I don’t think this is the correct way to evangelise. Personally I have a problem with Christians who think and behave this way.
When a former Police Minister allegedly declares "if they arrest me, I will start speaking," what does that mean for the state of South African intelligence? Judge Dennis Davis breaks down the implications of leadership holding back truths about deep-seated corruption until it suits them. Are our guardrails completely broken?
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[CASH FOR DAYS] “Buying days is better than crossing the river.”😳😳
Border officials were caught on camera taking bribes from Zimbabwean nationals to illegally extend their 90-day stay.
They stamped passports for cash, even when the passport holders were not present. 💔
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@ZANewsFlash No iANC iloyilwe stru 🤞Pakistan, Ethiopia and Somali nationals and their illegal businesses will never leave our country because they get protection from these @MYANC people. People can see and know why it is so because clearly it’s not about Pan Africanism.
@Keidaboymmm@ClaysonMonyela@PhophiRamathuba Points of correction…1. We don’t have northern Sotho here in South Africa. 2. Historically, most of our townships in Gauteng have predominantly vhaVenda and baTsonga and baPedi sections. So I don’t agree with you.