Isabwa_Wens

Historian.

[welearnSA @welearnSA]

Intellectual "Godfather" to Mandela, Sisulu and Tambo.

​When the militant young minds of the ANC Youth League, including Nelson Mandela, Oliver Tambo, and Walter Sisulu, were looking to reform the liberation movement, they didn't just meet in secret halls; they met in Dr. Xuma’s private home library in Sophiatown.

​Xuma later affectionately (and sometimes half-reproachfully) referred to Mandela and Tambo as his "Kindergarten Boys," noting that they were essentially "baptised" into serious political strategising right under his roof. He was the one who officially introduced a constitutionally structured, highly organized framework to the ANC that allowed their future campaigns to succeed.

[In A Nutshell🥜 @Markosonke1]

🚨 TRAVEL MORE, LEARN MORE!

"South African youth need to start travelling and learning from other African countries." — Minister Ronald Lamola.

Sometimes the best education isn't in a classroom, it's across the border. Africa is full of innovation, entrepreneurship and opportunities.

The more we travel, the more we understand our continent, build networks and change our mindset.

A passport can be one of the best investments a young person makes. 🌍✈️

[Tusero @tuse11]

You are spot on @JacintaNgobese. Was as flabbergasted watching the acting Minister making the threats. The millions of rands secured to police the March could have been used to hire buses for all the illegal foreigners and seek refund after.

[YourFavoriteGuy @guychristensen_]

The average Roman didn’t know their empire collapsed they just noticed their roads stopped being repaired one day.

[The Popi Show | Travel 📺 🌍 @popi_sibiya]

Have you heard of BaPhuthi? Neither had I 🤩 #thepopishow

[History ZAR @HistorySAZAR]

1971: President Hastings Banda of Malawi completed an official visit to South Africa, the first black Head of State ever to do so. Credit: AP Archives

[Daily Nation @NationAfrica]

Seventy years after a small missionary team arrived in colonial Kenya, a ministry born in detention camps continues to shape Christian leadership across the country.

On June 18, 1956, as Kenya emerged from one of the most turbulent chapters in its history, a young missionary named Doug Sparks arrived in Nairobi with an unusual assignment: to take Christian discipleship programmes into detention camps that had become symbols of Britain’s counter-insurgency campaign. Read more: https://t.co/bQodJtTsWn

[Man’s NOT Barry Roux @AdvoBarryRoux]

BREAKING NEWS: Public Works Minister Dean Macpherson’s Taxpayer-Funded Spain Private Family Holiday EXPOSED.

Shocking leaked emails reveal how DA Minister Dean Macpherson’s private family trip to Spain was repackaged as an official government meeting with the South African Ambassador. A meeting that never took place. 1/6

[welearnSA @welearnSA]

Global Landmarks Named in His Honor.

​While his legacy deserves far more recognition within South Africa, his impact was heavily celebrated globally:

1. ​He has an official street named after him in Amsterdam (Simon Nkoli Street).

2. ​San Francisco officially declared an annual Simon Nkoli Day.

3. ​He was flown to New York to officially open the first-ever Gay Games.

[Musa Ronalds @MusaaRonalds]

Let me respond to you calmly, with dignity because nginobuntu, and with the weight of truth you have clearly never been taught. You are a journalist, tweeting from the United States, yet you claim to speak for Nigeria. You call for South African leaders to speak out against "hatred," yet you remain silent on the tribalism that is tearing your own country apart, that has been tearing your country for 65 years!. Let me educate you🤔

Nigeria is a country of over 250 ethnic groups. The three largest Hausa-Fulani, Yoruba, and Igbo have been locked in a perpetual struggle for power, resources, and influence. This tribalism is not a relic of the past. It is alive and destructive. In the North, Boko Haram and banditry have killed thousands. In the South-East, separatist movements like IPOB clash with federal forces. In the South-South, militancy over oil resources continues unabated. These are not random conflicts. They are rooted in ethnic identity, regional exclusion, and the failure of your leaders to build a united nation.

Since independence, Nigeria has been plagued by ethnic violence, military coups, and a civil war that claimed over a million lives all because your people could not agree to be one nation. And what has changed? Today, your leaders still allocate resources along ethnic lines. Your police force is accused of ethnic profiling. Your politicians campaign on regional identity rather than national unity. This is the reality you refuse to confront.

Yet here you are, tweeting from America, lecturing South Africa about "hatred." You are a journalist, but you are not honest. You are a Nigerian, but you are not brave. You ran away from your country, you sit in comfort abroad, and you demand that South Africans be better than your own people have ever been.

Let me tell you where South Africans stand. We are not perfect. We have our divisions, racial, economic, political. But we do not kill each other over tribe. We do not flee our country in droves. We stay and confront our realities and we are currently doing that, we fight, we build. And when we see our leaders fail, we protest , not run to America or other countries to tweet about others.

You want Julius Malema to speak out? He does. Every day. He speaks about land, about economic freedom, about sovereignty. But he is not responsible for your country. He does not speak for Nigerians in Nigeria. Not once have I ever heard him reprimand African leaders for their crimes against poor people in their countries in they way they lead and govern, not once has he spoken about how unconstitutional your countries are, and guess what, he’s been quiet about the children that were abducted by militant groups in your country, he has been quiet about the abuse of political and economical power by useless African leaders. Your leaders are and should be responsible for their own people. We cannot justify incompetence! And you are responsible for holding them accountable.

So sit down. Look and dive deep into Africa and you will realise we are not your enemy, you are. Stop lecturing South Africa from your American sofa. Go home. Fight your tribalism. Unite your people. Demand accountability from your leaders. Then and only then can you talk to us about hatred, about unity, about the continent.

Until then, you are not a journalist. You are a propagandist. Not a truth-teller. A coward. And we have heard enough. Now be quiet. And stay quiet.

[History ZAR @HistorySAZAR]

South Africa, c 1970s. Credit: AP Archive

[Limukani Mathe Ph.D @DrLimukaniMathe]

Only Facts. Zimbabwe is black economically better than South Africa.

[History ZAR @HistorySAZAR]

Have you seen Zandile? with Thembi Mtshali (left) and Gcina Mhlophe at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg, 1987. Credit: Ruphin Coudyzer

[Mudzunga @Dzungie007]

"The world will judge South Africa"

Now the world is copying South Africa

[Rhythm & Blues 💎 @RnB_DITR]

Tems performs “Me and U” live at the grand opening of the Obama Presedential Center

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

here is Mamdani's entire speech at the Knicks parade, which is easily the best speech I've ever heard at an event of this sort

[NTV Kenya @ntvkenya]

Absa Eyes 85% Kenya Stake

South Africa’s Absa Group Limited has offered to buy an additional 16.5 percent stake in its Kenya unit.

This would raise its stake in Absa Bank Kenya to 85 percent from the current 68.5 percent.

#NTVTonight @Ben_Kitili

[Rush @Rush1776Rush]

Afrikaner children sell old tires for food. An American tourist gives him $6USD we need to give them asylum. South Africa went from 1st world nation that invented heart surgery, now their people starve on the street. Is this the future for America if we don’t fix immigration?

[AFRICAMUSTBEFREE!!!!!!! @engrICO2015]

A Nigerian lady narrates what she witnessed in a jewelry shop at southAfrica that has a black southAfrican gateman . This will keep you thinking !

If you listen to her till the end you will understand where all these resentment on fellow blacks originated from .

It is not all about job

[Donald B Kipkorir @DonaldBKipkorir]

Why is so hard for our Government to build a new international airport as Ethiopia & Rwanda have done in an above-board deal? Why do we like to use people with criminal pasts? Is it so hard to undertake a multi-billion project with open transparency? How can we use a Contractor from Zimbabwe of all places? JKIA deserves our respect & patriotism.

The Bible says the Truth loves Light! Evil loves Darkness!