Yesterday’s FIFA World Cup Opening showed what this handful of hateful Ntelezi idiots have done for South Africa’s international reputation and decades of goodwill.
All the genuine outrage against illegal immigration has drowned under their violent acts, human rights violations and threats while they run around the country barefoot telling us they are “men”
Decades of goodwill built on international solidarity, opposition to Israeli genocide in Palestine, cooperation with other nations, gone to dust.
Football is a global language where even politics find expression, and these jokes about how SA at the World Cup is in a “rush to go home and defend their jobs and women” or how “They can’t attack Mexico because they are not African and Black” - this is not only banter, it’s political satire
It shows how the world view is shifting towards viewing South Africa as a hub of hate, something that has never been part of our identity. I mean we are being compared to Argentina and Morocco, who have committed human rights atrocities against Africans respectively.
The State should take responsibility for allowing hate groups which stop children at clinics, schools, beat people and in some instances incite murder, to define our international identity. It’s not a joke, and we cannot banter our way out of it. It’s a stain.
South Africa being regarded as the hate capital of Africa at a FIFA World Cup would have been unimaginable in 2010.
Israel is smiling wherever it is, because its mission accomplished. We have lost our moral authority on the global stage.
President @SuluhuSamia just restored Africa to factory settings. That is leadership.
Swahili at an international panel with no apology. No permission sought. Just a sovereignty statement.
The fact that this still feels revolutionary tells us we are not yet fully independent. We are still in the trenches.
Mrs. Nantumbwe Sarah Ddamulira was a wife to John Ddamulira, the @NUP_Ug supporter who was abducted from his shop at Kisekka market in 2020 and is missing to-date. Sadly, Sarah passed on this morning. Like other family members of those disappeared, Sarah has spent the last five years moving everywhere looking for her husband. It is most painful that she has passed on without finding any answers. Kitalo nnyo.
“There was a time we had 90 million turnover and we had to pay back 22 million per year for the stadium, I couldn’t sleep because we had to qualify for the champions league to pay back the money. We had to sell our best players. Other clubs came in with lots of money but we were on the same level from 2007 to 2016”
Arsene Wenger
There is a kind of homesickness that only those who have stayed abroad for an extended period of time can truly understand.
But there is a far worse kind of homesickness for those who long for home but cannot return because of the guaranteed persecution awaiting them!
A Black man scoring the first goal of the 2026 World Cup to silence the African continent’s most hostile nation towards Black foreigners is absolutely poetic. Thank you, Mexico! 🇲🇽
Suspects in the mob killing of national rugby player Sydney Gongodyo have arrived at City Hall Court in Kampala to be charged formally. Gongodyo, 27, was killed by a mob in the Kampala suburb of Bukoto on June 5, 2026. #MonitorUpdates
📸 @abubakerlubowa
In 1966, All African counties boycotted the World Cup to protest apartheid and how black South Africans were marginalized
In 2026, All African countries supported Mexico against South Africa in protest against their xenophobia
Live long enough
A friend (maybe acquaintance🤔) became minister a few years ago. The first thing he observed when he got into that office was that the lie that government has no money is one of the biggest that has ever been told in our country . He saw wastage in procurements for office furniture, computers, travels where 50 people travel on a trip where only one person will speak for 15 minutes, among others.. so yeah, the problem isn’t lack of money. It’s leaders that don’t care about our lives, about 16 mothers dying everyday in labour, about children dying of preventable diseases because there is no medicine or medical practitioners in hospitals, etc. #PayAllMedicalInterns
As we angrily mourn the gruesome murder of Sydney, this story of an innocent 21yr old young man Timothy Ssemugenyi who was killed in a very similar manner in 2021 touched me so much but unlike in Sydney's case where @PoliceUg seems to be doing everything to arrest the murderers, the killers of Timothy were arrested and later released by Kabalagala Police after money exchanged hands.
This footage by @ntvuganda reveals how the parents of the poor boy were bitter for not getting justice to the extent that Police extorted money from them to secure the CCTV footage, such is our country!
The @PoliceUg should tell us how they ended the investigations into the murder of Timothy Ssemugenyi which seemed to have been a well planned motive 5yrs down the road even when the murders were known, arrested and released.😢
#JusticeForSydney
@mukulaa@mkainerugaba@sejudav@rwomchechen@RugyendoQuotes@kasujja@norbertmao@otafiire_k@AllanSseky@DuncanAbigaba@IsaacSsemakadde@KawalaRachael@Patrickonyango1@Lukowoyesigyire@BAKASUMBA1@edthnaka@BalaamBarugahar@JoshJosha1
"You have 24 judges at the Supreme Court. Each judge has a house of a certain category. Each judge has a car costing 600 million shillings. That car must be maintained not only during the ten years of that judge's service, but even after he retires, up to his date of departure from this world. This is not sustainable."
Dr. Sam Mayanja, Attorney General of the Republic of Uganda speaking @JSConversations@elisonk
Shaquille O’Neal says his kids need three degrees to touch Daddy’s cheese
“In order to touch Daddy's cheese you gotta have three degrees because I believe in respectable nepotism”
“I was with the Miami Heat one day and this article came out. The grandmother leaves the son $250,000,000”
“This kid's on his knees scrubbing the bathroom floor and I'm looking at him. I'm like, hey man, didn't your grandmother just leave you $250,000,000?”
“Yeah, but Dad wants me to start from the bottom. Once I saw that I was like, you know what, that right there is respectable nepotism”
“I also have to teach my kids we're not rich, I'm rich”