We occupy different worlds, geographically and financially. Tomorrow’s march may not affect your livelihood, but don’t be so quick to call it stupid or unnecessary. For many South Africans, it’s about survival, dignity and being heard. The masses are tired and fed up.
All good and well but if they continue to put the same people in power then all this becomes a fool's errand.
We need our people to realise how powerful their votes are. We ought to instill in our people that politicians work for us and we have to make them earn our votes.
Let's #MarchAndMarch be the catalyst of that change.
This is a election year. Let's hope the seeds planted here will start sprouting at this year's ballot box.
Saw it live today! Companies in Empangeni are desperate for documented general workers right now.
One of them has set up a tent at the bus/taxi rank with big writing saying "We are hiring" only requirements are an SA ID 🥹we are fixing the country
@LadyM1306 As a South African who spent two years in Nigeria 🇳🇬 I can tell you that in Nigeria the water and air quality, the food, the infrastructure, the level of industrialisation and all round good governance is miles ahead of South Africa 🇿🇦
I would stay in Nigeria if I was Nigerian
The kindest thing literature does is remind you that your peculiar little feelings have always existed. Someone, in some century, was equally confused by love, bored by society, tired of performing, and hungry for meaning.
Ok enough now!
Where are our leaders to finally push back on these insults?
Many South Africans denounce violence against our fellow Africans.
But, these incessant insults towards us by calling South Africans lazy has to be challenged and rebuked.
It is this very rhetoric that is fueling anger.
It's Youth Month, a time we honour young people who took to the streets to fight for the freedom of this country. Remember Soweto, June 16 in 1976 and Turfloop, June 12 1986.
#FeesMustFall as well as #RhodesMustFall ... Who did that?!
Our country is not perfect. We have serious issues we ought to deal with and that's our burden to carry.
To continue allowing people with loud voices to call us lazy and spit on our faces is disheartening.
Again, no sane South African wants to see innocent people being violently attacked. Many just want things to be done right and legally. Yes, including immigration.
It's the so-called lazy South Africans who dealt with Covid and made sure the pandemic does not decimate our part of the world.
It is the same lazy South Africans who send our soldiers to wars to help our fellow Africans. We lost 14 soldiers in DRC. RIP Maqhawe!
Why are our leaders in government and civil society allowing us to be disrespected and called lazy?
If we are lazy, how are we able to use our civic duty to vote in an orderly non-violent free and fair manner? Lazy people allow the politicians to refuse to leave office and rule for life. We don't.
If we are lazy why is there order in our country. Our systems are not perfect but many are working efficiently, even immigrants from the diaspora always praise how things work in this country. Many have spoken about something as simple as how queing at the bank is orderly done in Mzansi than it is in Nigeria. Who makes that happen if we are lazy?
Who builds the infrastructure, that many the likes of this CEO enjoy when they visit this country? Are there no South Africans working in those construction projects?
Companies that run the economy of this country... Who works in those companies?
The healthcare sector that is legally open to everyone in this country, who is running that? Are all the nurses, doctors and administrators not South African?
You can call out violence and intimidation. You can condemn violence. Hell, you can even call us stupid, if you are so inclined, for allowing criminals to exploit our immigration policies... BUT don't you dare keep calling us lazy!
Shame on those with platforms to challenge this insult for keeping quiet!
Re telletswe go lekane. Kwanele manje. Nxa... Allen Onyema can go to hell!
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Can you believe that a Zimbabwean has explained our current crisis better than some so called educated PhD holders??? May God Bless this man because the truth sets everyone Free! So instead of these NPOs funded by Foreign organisations and political parties that benefit from crime call us Xenophobic, they need to address the real issue first