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Running on borrowed curiosity.

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@paddypower South Africa had just 9 days in Mexico before kickoff, playing at 2,430m above sea level, nearly 700m higher than Johannesburg.

You could see it in the passing; those boys didn't have enough oxygen in their legs.

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@KabeloMusic Just acclimatization issues, nothing more.

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@NealGardner_ Acclimatization issues...

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@WelBeast Bro, we are shaking.

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Milk and solid food, Senator.

You're too old and too accomplished to still be feeding on milk.

More of your citizens are returning home. There are bigger problems demanding attention. Zero plans, zero urgency, zero solutions.

Yet here you are talking about popularity.

Who supports South Africa in a football match is milk.

Building a country is solid food.

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Looks like ChatGPT can now shop and make purchases on your behalf through a Visa partnership.

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@WeAreTheOverlap They've clearly not been keeping up with Senegal or Brazil lately.

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@BBCWorld "Anti-illegal-immigration sentiment" - we will not tire.

Legal immigrants are dope.. 👍

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@BalticDanny You talking 💩, son! Those people ain't even close to being Zulu, nor are they chanting any Zulu chants. We ain't your typical Africans, boy. Watch your mouth when you speak on the Zulu nation.

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@Princymthombeni @EFFSouthAfrica If international backlash is the standard by which we're judging policies, then why is one proposal treated as unacceptable because of potential backlash, while another proposal that could provoke equal or greater backlash is still actively advocated?

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@WorldCupMedia: "WHO YOU GOT?"

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The rest of us are trying to talk football.

anyway..

South Africa. 🇿🇦
Champagne football with a kasi flavour.

- Disciplined possession football ✅
- Structured build-up play ✅
- Technical midfield control ✅
- High-possession football ✅
- Kasi flair in moments, but within a system ✅

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I take your points and I am not going to argue them, but I will make this point:

The uncomfortable truth is that mass displacement is not a sustainable model for Africa.

If we want real progress, to achieve ideals like Africanism, it has to start with holding our democratic leaders accountable for making their own countries livable and prosperous.

A continent where citizens feel forced to flee their home countries to survive is the broken system we actually need to address and cannot afford to protect.

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@TheTestame45349 @AfricaFactsZone Well to be specific, I am referring to the 'new wave of nationalism' you mentioned. The one you feel 'damages Africanism' as a whole, do you see any positive outcomes coming from it, for the individual countries involved?

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@TheTestame45349 @AfricaFactsZone Do you see any positives in this?

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You are playing hide and seek, hiding behind Institutional Education as if it is the Alpha and Omega of intellect.

The people you call ignorant see you as ignorant too, so what then is the point of being educated?

You believe you carry some light, but that glare is dim to lived reality. You would need to come down from your "High Horse.." and live with the people for at least six months, that is science.

Can you see here we are not dealing with education itself, but rather the position and posture you have taken?

Let's not be conceited here. Not in SA, where most of us know the inside of a lecture room.

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@Kolie_Yola I thought we had concluded that Afrikaners are a "special" people on the brink of extinction. The diagnosis is "Cognitive Dissonance" and a "Persecution Complex", so naturally, they must be protected.

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Mara Mme.. Your statement sounds politically correct, but it ignores a historical irony.

You are rightfully rejecting 'amakwerekwere' because it’s a label used to classify and divide. Yet, you anchor your entire argument in 'Blackness', a term invented by colonizers with the exact same root intent: to categorize and control.

Just because one label was funnelled through 'reclamation' and eventually accepted, and the other wasn't, doesn't change the fact that you are using one manufactured classification to fight another.

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@Trevornoah unrelated:

The most dangerous political figures are usually the ones who can translate private resentment into public identity.

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@BBCNews This feels institutionally boosted beyond how fans emotionally experience the player.

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The heart rate of Manchester City fan @lukestanley03 watching THAT Semenyo goal live ❤️📈