I typically look at life’s challenges as semicolons.
(Learnt this from someone who used to be dear to me)
Life will throw things but like a semicolon, that pause will get a new statement afterwards and only you decide the flow.
It’s why no matter who died, I will sleep and eat
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.
🗣️ Emmanuel Adebayor: "2010 yılında Togo milli takımı otobüsümüz Angola'da teröristler tarafından yaylım ateşine tutulduğunda koltuğun altına saklandım. Takım arkadaşlarım kanlar içinde yanımda can verdi. Tam 30 dakika boyunca ölümle burun buruna kaldım. Sahaya tekrar çıkabilmem tamamen Tanrı'nın bir mucizesidir."
Today, South Africa faces Mexico.
It's funny watching some Africans rush to support Mexico because they're angry at South Africans over immigration issues. Your own country isn't at the World Cup. Some have never even qualified.
Whether you like South Africa or not, they are carrying an African flag on that pitch today. Supporting Mexico over an African team says more about you than it does about South Africa.
Africa first.