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When it is your time to win, nothing can take it from you. But you must hold faith not only in yourself, but in God. Without Him, your strength will always fall short. With Him, nothing is impossible.
The State [IDC] gave ArcelorMittal R1.6bn in April following a R380m cash injection and R417m TERS in March. With all those funds, the Owners of ArcelorMittal recorded losses and now want to sell their failed business to the IDC for R7bn. Classic Private Sector thuggery greed.
Dear Apartheid Nostalgics
First of all, Iām sorry you feel persecuted more than other races in the New South Africa in 2025ā¦I am sorry. For real.
I know life is hectic!
Even for us brown and black peopleā¦itās pretty bad.
I am sorryā¦but a few things need to be saidā¦
(Iām gonna use sports analogies here. I hope the Rugby one gets you)
Look, everybody agrees with the concept of merit and working hard. Black people. Brown people. White People. Everybody.
But everybody should have opportunity to access the game.
Affirmative action doesnāt mean thereās no merit. Affirmative action does not mean thereās no working hard.
For hundreds of years, people of colour were LEGALLY prevented from playing the game of self determination. Legally oppressed. Legally not allowed access.
Apartheid wasnāt like affirmative action - It wasn't like if thereās a qualified white dude & qualified black dudeā¦the qualified white person will get the opportunity. No.
The Apartheid & colonial laws meant that - no matter what - you CANāT get access. Itās illegal. If youāre black - u canāt buy the land. You canāt have the job. You canāt get the education. You canāt move up no matter how hard you work. No matter how smart you are.
Itās AGAINST the law.
Versions of this happened all over the world.
A funny example is the NBA in America.
There was a time, unbelievable as it may seem, when the NBA was WHITES ONLY.
Itās not that the white people didnāt compete hard against other white people for victory on meritā¦
ā¦but black people werenāt allowed to playā¦
even guys like Lebron James grandfather wasnāt allowed to play.
He wasnāt dunking a basketballā¦making buckets. He was dunkingā¦a mopā¦into a bucket.
Meanwhile he could probably 360 clean the backboard from the free throw line.
The idea of affirmative action is just to get people of colour or people whoāve been historically disenfranchisedā¦into the game. Let them play.
Once theyāre in the game, they still have to compete like everyone else.
Like anyone whoās given an opportunity..QUOTA players can only survive if theyāre good. They can only survive due to competence.
Another way of looking at itā¦
..black peopleās legs have been LEGALLY AMPUTATED for hundreds of years. Real, horrifically messed up laws that amputated their progress.
Now Imagine Oscar Pistorius rightā¦
When he ran, he ran with his affirmative action prosthetics. It didnāt guarantee that he won, it meant he could run the race.
Imagine Oscar had to compete with no prosthetics. Trying to run the race on his stumps.
And then Oscar has to run a race with Usain Bolt.
And on top of thatā¦Usain Boltās ancestors amputated his legs in the first place.
Might make you insecure right? May make you wanna shoot someone.
With prosthetics he can competeā¦
and to stay in the race, he still needs to be able to runā¦
and if Oscar wins the raceā¦even with prostheticsā¦
ā¦you canāt say heās not winning on merit.
If privileged people still donāt agree with what Iām sayingā¦let me use a language you may understandā¦
Golf.
The next time you play golf - donāt play with a golf handicap cos a Golf Handicap could be called Golf Affirmative action.
Or 140+ handicap based golf laws.
Itās a way to get people into the game.
Apartheid laws werenāt white people playing golf and black people getting a golf handicapā¦
Apartheid wasā¦
a black person has to be a CADDY. Youāre not allowed to ever play golf. You have to be a caddy.
Now if you still not with meā¦this is my final attempt.
Rugby.
If I canāt get through to you with rugby itās impossibleā¦youāll never get what Iām saying.
As a nation, if we figure out how to include ALL RACES into the game of SELF DETERMINATION, itāll be better for everyone.
We won the rugby this way. We became world champions this way. Many times.
And every single time there was a new black or coloured face introduced to the team, the assumption was that the black or coloured face was not qualified. Quota player. By default - the perception is 'not qualified' until proven otherwiseā¦
That assumption, bias and racism still exists.
If there were no systems of redress and so called ā140+ race lawsā or affirmative action -
ā¦because of historical disadvantage, guys like Siya, Cheslyn and Mapimpi for example would probably NEVER have played for our country.
Because there would have been no 140+ race based opportunities to get them development, coaching and access.
Iām not saying an all white team would not winā¦thereās nothing scarier than a white Afrikaner rugby player with no neck and cauliflower earsā¦
Baksteen Du Toit will bliksem you and be very effectiveā¦white people have the expertise no doubt.
ā¦but itās much better that we all won together.
Even though white people had all the expertise, itās much better that effort was put into diversity, inclusion and equity in conjunction with the obvious hard work and merit based systems.
Continuing with the status quoā¦could still have won us the Rugby World Cup with Afrikaner players called Os or Blikkies many times overā¦but more importantly the consequences of the ā140+ race lawsā won not only the World cups, but the heart of all South Africans.
We all won together.
And itās possible. And itās inspiring. And itās nation building. And we can do it in all industries in SA. Itāll just take time. And effort.
But the morality and ethics are sustainable and long lasting.
What @afriforum is doing is completely the opposite. Itās just selfishā¦and no matter how they try to disguise it - fundamentally racist to the core.
Nkosi Sikelelā iAfrika
@SibonokuhleDu10@MDNnewss Being a celebrity doesnāt mean you have constant income or cashflow. Just do a quick math on what you think sheās made on all her work, just sum up monthly income for all these years. You will realise that they donāt even make 20 on monthly basis as an average if they are lucky