Colin Johnson

By day I write code. By night I interrogate data. It confesses every time.

Software Dev | Data Analyst

[Royale Union Saint-Gilloise @UnionStGilloise]

L’Union c’est l’amour. Rele is love. 3️⃣8️⃣🫶

[Phakela🇿🇦Mthakathi @PhakelaMthakath]

4753 South African have employed in the trucking industry 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦❤️❤️❤️❤️🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦👏🏾🧎🏽📍.

[SewelaNkoana @sewelankoana]

Waking up in the middle of the night and being proud to be a South African 🇿🇦

[IG:Joy-Zelda @joy_zelda]

Closing Foreigners churches should be next. There's nothing scarce about religion. No need to import faith based missions.

AZISHE 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
#mabahambe

[DrMashobaADieta @DrMashobaADieta]

Jacinta pulled the largest crowd in the history of Marches, in South Africa, since 1994.

[Phakela🇿🇦Mthakathi @PhakelaMthakath]

Thank you South Africa🇿🇦❤️🇿🇦👏🏾👏🏾🧎🏽.

[MORAL Authority @lavidaNOTA]

Now the kids have holiday jobs!

[Miss Ziprusha @destinyzee]

Being a South African is a flex 🤞

[Born-in-SA🇿🇦 @_Tee__G]

“I’m saying this: from now on, the government must be prepared to lose R600 million every Thursday because we will keep marching every Thursday until they act.”

#Mabahambe

[Jacinta Ngobese🇿🇦 @JacintaNgobese]

To think there’s a political party that said they don’t want their members to be associated with our Marches because we are violent all of a sudden… !!! But ke akusenani…Thursday ✊🏻

[SewelaNkoana @sewelankoana]

❗️❗️❗️JOB ALERT. Please RT🙏

To our fellow unemployed brothers🇿🇦 I saw this video on tik tok and took it upon myself to verify the information.i spent 5 minutes speaking to a lady called Andrea.she confirmed that indeed they looking for 300 truck drivers and only South Africans🇿🇦

Requirements:
Code 14 driver’s license
30yrs+
6yrs experience
Email: [email protected]

Type of trucks:
Ton trucks
Heavy duty trucks

[Proudly South African 🇿🇦 @SayEntrepreneur]

Home Affairs is hiring over 135 Immigrants Officers:

Salary R280K - R330K per year

Thank you @JacintaNgobese

To Apply✍️ https://t.co/PA9aQzqFC5

[Black-Jesus💧🇿🇦 @KingMntungwa]

Looking for employed. We looking for Experienced South African machine operates to fill various positions. Email:
[email protected]

[Proudly South African 🇿🇦 @SayEntrepreneur]

HUGE SUCCESS! 🇿🇦 Yesterday, we made history by pulling off a massive 135 marches across South Africa!

The momentum is absolutely unstoppable. 🔥

​📊 Provincial Breakdown:
📍 KZN: 36
📍 GP: 23
📍 EC: 21
📍 MP: 12
📍 LP: 12
📍 WC: 9
📍 NW: 9
📍 FS: 8
📍 NC: 5

Abahambe!

[L E S E D I @_Hybreed_]

NO DNA, JUST RSA 🇿🇦

Open for a surprise

[dedrickshoots @dedrickshootsss]

I dreamt of that goal exactly like that 😭 I thought it was coming against mexico! Maseko you Beauty 😭🔥❤️

[Phakela🇿🇦Mthakathi @PhakelaMthakath]

📍🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦❤️🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦👏🏾🧎🏽.

[吴鹏 Wu Peng @AmbWuPeng]

Congratulations to Bafana Bafana and all South Africans on a memorable victory and qualification for the FIFA World Cup knockout stage!

A proud moment for South African football and a testament to the team's great talent, determination, resilience and belief!

[Monwabisi Kete 🇿🇦 @MonwabisiKete]

Thapelo Maseko. 🇿🇦❤️⚽️🔥🔥🔥
As'bonge! Bafana Bafana!

#BafanaPride #BafanaBafana

[Kashyap Sriram @kashyap286]

Firstly, Ethiopia is under US sanctions while Vietnam is not. And speaking of former French colonies, Haiti was the first to get independence (1804) and is still one of the poorest countries in the world because of the debt they had to take on to gain independence (it took them until 1947 to fully repay it!). Whereas, New Caledonia is still a French colony and is neither rich nor poor.

"If colonialism were the answer to why Africa is poor..."

This line completely ignores the European powers' (and US) post-colonial control over Africa. Patrice Lumumba, the first democratically elected leader of the DRC, was tortured and killed by Belgium and the US for being a nationalist. His body was dissolved in acid so he wouldn't become a martyr. His legacy is largely unknown even within the continent. Several other such "lessons" were meted out. Google Thomas Sankara (Burkina Faso) and Sylvanus Olympio (Togo).

Once you set the example, you gain obedience. The VietCong, on the other hand, didn't surrender even though 3 million Vietnamese died during the war, and several thousand more continue to die to this day (!) from Agent Orange exposure.

As for former French colonies in Africa, France still controls their currency and holds their central bank reserves in France. As Rothschild purportedly said, "permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws."

Third, the borders in Africa were drawn in such a way that conflict was inevitable. At the Berlin Conference in 1884-85, the European powers simply carved up the continent by drawing straight line borders. African leaders were conspicuous only by their absence at this historic event which shaped the next century. This is why Cameroon, a French-speaking country, has a minority English-speaking territory, ensuring it remains destabilized. Likewise for West Asia/the Middle East, where the Sykes-Picot legacy lives on.

@magattew conflates formal colonial rule with colonial control. Vietnam managed to fully kick out both France and the US, reunified the North and the South, and kept its sovereignty. All African leaders who attempted the same have been systematically eliminated (see Muammar Gaddafi, Libya's divisive leader, for a recent example), ensuring Africa forever bears the open wounds of its colonial legacy.

But Ms. Wade is right on one thing: Vietnam owes its prosperity to overcoming colonial rule. Maybe Africa can become prosperous if Africans do the same.