motuba wa ratau

[Fighter Thola @Miss_Thola]

Black people wishing for Malema’s downfall, what’s in it for you? We understand why the WMC and white-owned media fight him, but wena how does it benefit you, your children, and your children’s children? Why do you get excited at the thought of him being implicated in wrongdoing?

[Register to vote EFF. @Ndlmia]

They do not hate Julius Malema because he has failed. They hate him because, despite years of relentless attacks, they have failed to defeat him politically, morally, and ideologically.

Their frustration comes from the fact that they cannot find a fault significant enough to destroy his credibility. They cannot measure their leaders against him because many of those leaders lack the courage, conviction, and influence that Malema commands. It is difficult to defend leaders who inspire little confidence, while Malema continues to inspire loyalty, debate, and admiration across the African continent.

Whether one agrees with him or not, Julius Malema remains one of the most recognised and influential political figures in Africa. His voice resonates from local communities to international platforms. Even global leaders and institutions find themselves responding to his political positions, while many of his critics struggle to make an impact beyond their own local circles.

What pains his opponents most is seeing him remain relevant, loved, and politically resilient despite every campaign launched against him. They celebrate every allegation as if it were a conviction and every investigation as if it were a guilty verdict. Yet if the Madlala Report fails to substantiate the accusations against him, many of the same voices will simply move the goalposts and attack the very process they once celebrated.

History has shown that genuine revolutionaries are often both loved and hated. Julius Malema occupies that space. To his supporters, he represents fearless leadership, economic justice, and African self-determination. To his opponents, he represents a political force they cannot ignore and have not been able to silence.

Love him or hate him, Julius Malema remains standing. And that reality continues to frustrate those who have spent years predicting his political demise.

[MZANSI AWAKe @Mzansiawake]

Dr Lehohla’s warning is wisdom: If SA stays silent when Black people are killed in KZN, or when foreigner is called ‘cockroach’... then yes mngani, Nigeria can say ‘We’ll nationalize MTN’. Uganda can say ‘Shoprite must go’. And then 100,000 African workers lose job. That’s retaliation mngani.

So mngani, problem is not ‘SA company in Africa’. Problem is ‘African countries fighting each other while France still owns CFA franc’.

Real enemy: MTN profits leaving Africa to London shareholders. Not MTN tower in Soweto.
Real solution: African countries must say ‘If you make money here, build factory here, pay tax here, list on our stock exchange here’. That’s Dr Lehohla’s point mngani.

So don’t burn Shoprite mngani. Negotiate better deal for Africa. Because Shoprite leaving means Mama in Harare has no food. MTN leaving means farmer in Uganda has no mobile money.

Ubuntu economics: Africa must win together. Not SA vs Nigeria. All of us vs poverty.@Mzanziawake

[PABLO @WonderMahlobo]

We would probably be going to the World Cup too if it wasn’t for that injury. Now people are disrespecting my boy 💔

[The Instigator @Am_Blujay]

38-year-old Phoenix mother of three has been sentenced to house arrest and avoided immediate imprisonment after being convicted by the Durban High Court for stealing R2.9 million from the law firm where she was employed. Faieza Kalick, of Southgate, Phoenix, received an eight-year prison sentence, which was suspended for five years on condition that she does not commit fraud again.

[oros @ross_rori]

I am a pedi woman dating a Zulu man I speak Zulu setswana Sesotho Afrikaans pedi a little bit of Venda and tsonga put me anywhere in South Africa and I'll adapt, I speak Xhosa every weekend because majority of my friend group is Xhosa

That's what makes us a great nation trying to isolate yourself in the name of I don't speak this language is STUPID

[motuba wa ratau @GeneralRatau]

@inkingayodwa @SixoGcilishe @SihleLonzi You need Jesus in your life 🙏

[Clement Manyathela @TheRealClementM]

Shouldn’t we start a petition to extend the work and mandate of the Madlanga commisison?We can discuss the mandate or what new form the commisison will take. But my goodness,this commussion could help expose more crooks. And that may serve as a crime deterrent. What do you think?

[SABC News @SABCNews]

IMMIGRATION FOCUS | Economic Freedom Fighters’ Sam Matiase says the South African government does not know how many undocumented foreign nationals are in the country.

[MANANA🇿🇦 @AndyPhylany]

Ever since you took the EFF to 9% is there any positive impact from the party that you voted for?

[Omphile Monnaapula @OmphileMnaps]

MISSING CHILD
A reshare will be appreciated.

[motuba wa ratau @GeneralRatau]

@KhanyisileNdza3 We are going to lose 1 or 2 players to Europe and maybe south arabia

[Thando ™️ @tidoo]

A player like Tebza sits there knowing his selection or pedigree is never in doubt, why? He puts in the work, week in and week out every season. His peers can learn something from the guy. Doesn’t need anyone’s pity. We don’t talk more about such.

[Wandile 🇿🇦 @1ndile_madondo]

Mrs Geneva not Switzerland needs to answer, where is the R500 million?

[Vuyolwethu Vuyo @MrAfrica440952]

The country is about to burn because of this failure, who is failing to create a living of South Africans with so much budget. Where is the R500m meant for spaza shops?

[RAMASISI 👑🇿🇦 @cikilishe]

The Citizens would like to know
@GovernmentZA @CyrilRamaphosa @DSBD_SA
Sifunu ukwazi

[Rampard 🇿🇦 @RamaphiriMpho]

This is where Stella took the 500 Million . @Stellarated

[Sanele Ntombela 🇿🇦 @ZKasilam]

#WHEREISTHE500MILLION
#WHEREISTHE500MILLION
#WHEREISTHE500MILLION

[Tebogo Khaas @tebogokhaas]

IT’S NOT XENOPHOBIA, IT’S NO LEADERSHIP — A MOZAMBICAN PERSPECTIVE

_By Solomon Mondlane

Swati Newsweek 08 May, 2026

I am writing as a Mozambican who has lived, studied, and worked in three countries: Mozambique, Swaziland, and South Africa. I did both my primary and secondary education in Swaziland as a foreigner from Mozambique. Because of that lived experience, I reject the easy label that South Africans are xenophobic.

_When leadership is absent, people step in — and it turns chaotic_
What we see in South Africa today is not xenophobia. It is what happens in any country when there is a vacuum of leadership. When the state fails to secure borders, regulate immigration, police crime, and communicate clearly, ordinary citizens step in to “solve” the problem themselves. The result is almost always disorder, violence, and scapegoating. That is failed governance, not national hatred.

_If South Africa is xenophobic, then the whole of Africa is_
I know this because I lived it in Swaziland as a young Mozambican. We were subjected to ugly name-calling. Once every month, law enforcement targeted undocumented Mozambicans for harassment. People were forcefully removed from their rented apartments, loaded into police trucks like firewood, and deported. Some Mozambicans were recruited to work in sugarcane fields by citizens. At the end of the month, those same employers would call law enforcement. The workers were arrested and deported without their salaries.

Refugee camps were created for both South Africans and Mozambicans, but in separate communities. The state decided who belonged where.

But because Swazis were doing it, nobody called it xenophobia. There were no global headlines about “Swazi xenophobia.” It was treated as immigration enforcement.

_Mozambique is doing the same_
In Mozambique, foreigners coming to visit are subjected to roadblocks — or what President Venâncio Mondlane once described as “slavery toll gates.” Law enforcement demands bribes everywhere a foreigner goes within the country. By the time they arrive at their destination, they are left with nothing.

Those who settle in Mozambique face another trap. They are invited into business partnerships, and when they have invested, they are insulted, falsely accused — mainly as terrorists — by citizens, and then deported. What do you call that? Just because it is done by Mozambicans, is it not xenophobia?

_The double standard_
The difference is not the behavior. The difference is South Africa’s size, media visibility, and economic pull. Millions migrate to South Africa because it works better than home. When tensions flare there, cameras are present. When the same, or worse, happens in smaller states, the world stays silent.

_South Africa needs leadership, not labels_
South Africans need to be engaged by their government. That means the government should start leading from outside the walls of Parliament. Secure the borders. Deal with illegal immigration like other African countries are doing. It is their sovereign right.

In reality, South Africa has been the most lenient country on the continent. It has absorbed millions. What we are witnessing now is not hatred of foreigners. It is the outcome of years without clear policy, without enforcement, and without honest conversations with citizens.

Call it what it is: a lack of leadership. When the state abandons its job, the street takes over. And the street has no training, no law, and no accountability.

If we are honest, the same behavior we condemn in South Africa exists across Africa. The cure is not shaming South Africans. The cure is leadership — in Pretoria, in Maputo, in Mbabane, and across the AU.

_Solomon Mondlane_ is a former Secretary for CAD foreign relations desk and former Mozambique correspondent for Eswatini's largest online newspaper the (Swati Newsweek)_, _Swazi Voice_, and _Swaziland Democratic News_. He is a current member of ANAMOLA and lives in Matola, Mozambique.

[motuba wa ratau @GeneralRatau]

@MkhontaLungelo Please do us favor drink that poison now