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@Berni_0725 @CyrilRamaphosa Proud to be South African. It’s the only choice I have.

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@Morne61573303 @Bruceps In your dreams

[Neil Higgs 💎 🌼 @nthiggs]

@Bruceps The US is isolating itself. China will pick up the slack.

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@kalliekriel @PresidencyZA You are so misguided.

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@PhumlaniMMajozi Umtya awufiki eparafinini

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@nicwaterboer Keep telling yourself that.

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@zilevandamme Ngeke balunge!!!

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@ewnupdates That’s fine. Show must go on!

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@JacoKleynhans You are not exceptional. We have inequality issues that must be addressed. Period!!!

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@SteuartWright @MightiJamie You could ask yourself the same question about being insensitive to centuries of injustices to the black race by the European descendants. We hold different narratives of the past and current. But somehow the disinformation seems to be landing faster!!

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@Sophie_Mokoena No one is saying Spain is a failed state. Imagine if this happened in SA.

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@BGatesIsaPyscho Same kinda people that want to tell us the African and South African history.

[UpFront @AJUpFront]

“Some people have decided to look at Palestinians as somehow not fully human. Because if you think of Palestinians as fully human, you cannot find excuses for this kind of mass murder,” says author @ChimamandaReal to #AJEUpFront host @RediTlhabi.

🔗Watch: https://t.co/ZzQa98krkn

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@sandileswana We’re not dealing with a rational US government. Who are we anyway when they’ve dumped their allies.

[Phumzile Van Damme @zilevandamme]

I’ve been thinking about this for hours, especially the looming risk of AGOA’s collapse. A long post. A heartfelt one, dedicated to those it applies to.

Now, I’m not one for doom and gloom, but what’s coming for South Africa’s agricultural sector looks like serious economic ruin. The broader economy will likely hold, largely because South Africa’s mineral exports remain essential to the US. In fact, minerals are now exempt from the tarrifs, but agriculture? Very tough times are on the horizon.

We could debate blame and spiral into Parkinson’s Law of Triviality. I have my views. You have yours. That's life.

But let’s talk about the simple, cold, hard facts.

All the fearmongering about South Africa has failed.

The loud narrative of genocide, racial persecution, and mass land grabs has garnered no meaningful sympathy. No policy shift. No international solidarity. Just quiet disengagement and a shrug from the world. The immigration promise? The messaging has shifted to refugee camps in Pretoria. The face-eating leopard and other tales.

Why the lack of international mobilisation? Because people aren’t moved by stories told in bad faith. When you distort your reality to extract pity or political leverage, it breeds mistrust. It feels manipulative. People don’t rally behind that - they retreat. Not because they’re heartless, but because they can’t connect with a version of your life that feels dishonest, exaggerated, and devoid of dignity.

Constantly framing South Africa as broken doesn’t build solidarity. It doesn’t inspire support. It certainly doesn’t generate love. If you want people to care about your fate, they need to hear the truth, not a performance.

And here’s the hardest part: you’ve let the loudest, most dishonest and theatrical voices speak for you.

The influencers.
The ex-swimmer with American citizenship.
The YouTube musician.
The 3-day MP.
The outrage machines.
The so-called “civil rights” organisations peddling catastrophe.

They are not farmers.
They are not exporters.
They will not be there when you cannot export.

They’ve sold you a version of your life that you know isn’t true, and yet, you’ve made them your spokespeople. They’re here for the clicks. The donations. The performance of crisis. They are using your lives to build their brands. The rest of us have nothing to gain or lose in this. I for one, most certainly do not. But I can see when a car crash is looming and people standing in the road.

I'd say:

A change of tone is long overdue.
A change of messengers too.

Stop pinning your hopes on charlatans whose only talent is setting fires and calling it light.

South Africa deserves better, and so do you.

Speak for yourselves. Not through the mouths of those who see you as little more than a cheque in waiting.
Speak for yourselves, and change the tone.

I say this with my whole heart and deep concern: it’s sink under the weight of lies… or swim in truth and good faith.

You attract more bees with honey than vinegar.

Take this from the good place it comes. ♥️🇿🇦

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@kalliekriel @afriforum You created this mess.

[Michael de Villiers @Mikedotcoza]

TERRIBLE THINGS ARE HAPPENING IN THE UNITED STATES. THEY ARE DOING VERY BAD BAD THINGS. THEIR LEADERS ARE PASSING VERY TERRIBLE LAWS.

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@kalliekriel @realDonaldTrump You asked for it

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@elonmusk Ungenaphi!

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@TimesLIVE Private school of mediocrity