WATCH | DIRCO Minister Ronald Lamola has used the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) to defend the strength of South Africa's democracy and reject external interference in the country's domestic affairs.
BEFORE YOU CALL THEM YOUR BROTHERS AND/OR SISTERS YOU MUST KNOW HOW WE WERE TREATED IN THEIR RESPECTIVE COUNTRIES!
Africa has 54 sovereign states, but only 3 countries hosted South Africans for an agreed period of time and it was all based on preconditions and restrictions:
- Angola 🇦🇴
- Tanzania 🇹🇿
- Zambia 🇿🇲
Above were the countries that hosted South Africans with a clear understanding that, after sometime, they will go back to South Africa.
Mozambique 🇲🇿, Lesotho 🇱🇸, Botswana 🇧🇼, Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 and Swaziland 🇸🇿 were transit countries.
Ethiopia 🇪🇹, Egypt 🇪🇬 and Algeria 🇩🇿offered training camps for a selective period and soon after, South Africans had to return to the 3 host countries.
Very few countries were in solidarity support, but never in financial support.
BARE FACTS:
1. Countries like Kenya 🇰🇪 and Democratic Republic of the Congo 🇨🇩 used to deport any South African found in their country back to apartheid South Africa for possible death 💀
2. It is quite interesting to acknowledge that the liberation movement was once expelled by host nations, and it was then that Cde Kebby Maphatsoe lost his arm in Angola 🇦🇴
3. The liberation movement was also expelled from Mozambique 🇲🇿, Swaziland 🇸🇿, Lesotho 🇱🇸 and Zimbabwe 🇿🇼
4. Botswana 🇧🇼 didn’t even bother to host South Africans
5. While living in those host countries, South Africans were living in camps and they were not allowed to mix with the local people from those countries
6. They had to lease land to grow their own food
7. They had to build a school and a hospital which were fully funded by countries in Europe that were against Apartheid
8. Freedom of movement was at a minimum
9. Every South African had to leave the camp which was once every fortnight
10. They had to have a permit which only allowed them to leave the camp for only one hour
11. If they came back past the given time, they would be arrested by the soldiers who were stationed at the entrance of the camp
12. More importantly, there has never been a South African that worked in any country in Africa during that time
13. Living conditions were not good; Malaria, AIDS and other diseases killed South Africans as those diseases were very foreign and were non-existent in South Africa
MORE FACTS:
1. In March 1980, PAC members protested in Tanzania about the living conditions and soon after, 17 PAC members were gunned down for protesting in a foreign country by the FFU Unit. This was a clear reminder that you don’t protest in a foreign country.
2. South Africans were very much aware that they were in those countries temporarily and they couldn't wait to return home
3. In 1977, the group of Tsietsi Mashinini that was made up of only 20 students was deployed from Somafco, Tanzania, to go study in Nigeria, and while they were there, they were welcomed with so much resistance. Nigerian 🇳🇬 students protested claiming South Africans are there to take their jobs and women
4. Not too long after that protest, in just 2 months, one comrade by the name of Joel, was poured with acid on his face. Not too long he died, and it was then that the group had to be recalled back to Somafco
5. Tsietsi Mashinini and Mvuyo, Mbuyiseni Makhubu leaders of 1976 Soweto Uprising dissapeared without a trace at University of Ibadan, Nigeria 🇳🇬
Angeke sikhohlwe!
Re ka se lebale!
Sehle silibale!
Lest we forget!
🤞🏽
Article by Gloria Ogle.
I've seen many angry videos of fellow South Africans over this issue but there is this "thing" about this one ... I can't explain it but it deeply hits home 😭😭😭🥹
This comment is a textbook example of whataboutism and how non-South Africans have weaponized white people against our local grievances. Fork in the kitchen.
When we raise a specific issue - such as the impact of undocumented migration or crime in local communities, their favourite response or talking point is "But what about white people?", because they do not want to engage with the subject at hand. They want to deflect.
Foreigners fail to understand that addressing the legacy of white nationalism and managing immigration crisis and crime are not mutually exclusive. We do not have to choose between fighting racism and demanding rule of law. These are parallel challenges that both require urgent attention in our young democracy.
This gaslighting mechanism about Orania is getting pathetic and tired because you are deflecting from the African immigrants who harm local communties and try to tell us about a minority of random Boers who do not live in proximity to the majority of our population unlike thousands of these Africans who are in the townships or towns and engaging in illegal activities.
Honestly, foreigners are very manipualtive for silencing South Africans who are frustrated by people who sell drugs in their communities, sell counterfeit/fake food products that have also killed many people, rob people, vandalize our infrastructure, traffick our women, and all kinds of inhumane crimes. The constant provocation is getting out of hand but let's ignore all of this and talk about the three or four Boer people living on a desert and singing De La Rey in their khaki shorts?
If you complain about safety issues or the impact of undocumented migration, a weaponized response might be: "Why are you obsessed with other Africans when Orania is right there?" ----- DEFLECTION!!!!
Nobody cares about that random farm in the middle of nowhere and not even the majority of white people want to live there but you foreigners are so obsessed with the narrative of a "white-only separatist town" and love to sensationalize it so much while the rest of the country does not lose anything from it.
Orania is clearly an emotionally-charged flashpoint and many foreigners are weaponizing it to practice selective outrage that would silence other legitimate concerns in our country. This is commonly used as a "gotcha" tactic to shut us down or minimize our frustrations. They do not bring any other rebuttal or argument to the table.
Foreigners (including the quoted woman) are not in a position to talk to us about having energy for anyone when many of you fled your own homelands and have all those flags in your bio yet you live in Europe - among your European colonizers. Having a moral high ground while you live in the UK is a fucking joke!
There is no retreat from where our people stand. There is no regret in our conviction. South Africans demanding safety is a basic right. One grievance does not invalidate the other.
“When we formed NEPAD, we went to Portugal in 2007 for a EU-Africa Summit and the then UE Commission President, Prime Minister José Manuel Barroso told us that the EU has policies everywhere on Earth except for the EU-Africa policy. He said this was because when it comes to Africans, you just have to dictate to them and they will do everything you say and want from them. We told them that if they don’t change their attitude towards Africa, there’s going to be an antagonistic relationship between Africa and Europe, as a multipolar world is emerging.” - President Thabo Mbeki 🇿🇦
BREAKING
Israeli Charge d'Affaires (Isreali diplomat in SA) has 72 hours to leave South Africa.
The Department of International Relations and Cooperation has informed the Government of Israel of its decision.
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My advice to you kids is,
Go to school. Get an education. Get a profession. Because the entertainment industry is the new gangsterism. Celebs are the new criminals.
Fuck this shit.