Nthabiseng Mokoena

Creative, Director, Daughter, Sister, Mom💕 Lover of life and art! I count my blessings each day. Blessings, Love and Light!

[The Princess of Soul @princessofsoul_]

Jennifer Hudson performing “Hallelujah” and “I Will Always Love You” at @CliveDavis’s funeral this morning. Such an emotional and fitting tribute to the music icon!

[Redi Tlhabi @RediTlhabi]

Which South Africans? You are a senator who pays attention to random social media commentary? What is the OFFICIAL position of the government of South Africa and what is the status quo? Do you know why SA's Health Minister had downplayed the US's PEPFAR withdrawal ANNOUNCEMENT?

Let me educate you. Motsoaledi is chilled because South Africa funds the majority its HIV/AIDS response itself. 74 -80% comes from SA. 17-21% from PEPFAR and 2-7% from Global Fund and other donors.

Meanwhile, Nigeria's government consistently spends well below the 15% of national budgets that AU countries committed to. You have poorly equipped hospitals and clinics, your system operates intermittently with devastating consequences for the poor. You are a popular case study at many global convenings that I moderate.

You have poor sanitation and have the highest malaria burden in the world. Never mind HIV/AIDS. You had poor federal -state coordination for Covid19. I know. I moderated a WHO-AFRICA Summit on this in 2022, in Togo. Your officials and experts were pouring their hearts out.

So shut your trap. Senator.

[Nondaba🇿🇦 @ShweleNgelosi]

Fuck everybody who was given an opportunity to make the lives of South Africans better but didn't!!!!!

[Mhlongo da Herbalist 🍃 @Qokani]

There was a time when university students could rely on holiday jobs as shop assistants or waiters to earn an income. All that is gone now.

This unemployment crisis is not just an economic problem. it is dehumanizing. 😭💔

[Kgopolo @PhilMphela]

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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[Tumisho Masha @TumishoMasha]

South Africans don’t travel nywe nywe nywe…compared to everyone else on the continent it’s not even close.

[Rassie van der Dussen @Rassie72]

Which group is Ireland in?

[Musa Ronalds @MusaaRonalds]

I say this calmly 🙌South Africa is not embarrassed. Not by a match. Not by a score. Not by the noise of those who cheer against us. Win or lose, our Bafana Bafana will return home and we will welcome them with open arms. Because they are ours. They belong to us. And we would rather have them home, safe and fed, than starving in other people's countries, begging for scraps. We love them unconditionally. That is what it means to be South African.

And since we are keeping score, since some are so eager to measure which country is better, which is greater, which leads, let us not forget, South Africa is winning. Not just on the pitch, but on the world stage.

Our Patrice Motsepe is the President of CAF. The Confederation of African Football. The highest office in African football. Not Nigeria. Not Kenya. Not Zimbabwe. South Africa. That is not luck. That is leadership. That is respect earned.

We have the best infrastructure, the best healthcare, the best constitution, the best agricultural sector. We feed ourselves and our neighbours. South Africa is mother to your absent fathers. We treat the sick of the continent. We host global events. We lead in innovation, in finance, in democracy. We are not perfect but we are great.

So you can cheer against us. Tweet your petty insults. Wish us to lose. We will not be shaken. We will not be provoked. We will simply continue to build, to lead, to win on our own terms.

Because South Africa does not need validation. We have results. We have each other as South Africans, a truly remarkable diverse country. We have a future that shines brighter than their bitterness. And that is the quiet, confident truth they cannot stand. 🇿🇦

[Lerato @_BellaM_]

Stella, your statement exposes exactly why South Africans are angry. When citizens want to run a business, government demands ownership verification, tax compliance, operational requirements, permits, licences and endless bureaucracy before support is released. But elsewhere the system is far more accommodating: asylum seekers get Section 22 permits that legalise their stay, and school rules also accept asylum/refugee documents and even affidavits where official papers are missing. Then people like Mbeki, Mantashe and Dlamini Zuma have the nerve to talk as if South Africans are the ones who are unskilled or unemployable. No! That’s BS! the truth is that this government has made life harder for its own people, then insults them for not thriving inside the mess it created. South Africans are angry because the system does not work for them. And if you still vote ANC after this, then you are voting for the very people who built the dysfunction.

[🎀Strawberry Cheesecake🎀 @Radebe_merci]

Guys when you see any post about Mazwi please just retweet it , we need to make noise . We need to be heard #BringMazwiBack

[Scott Myers @GoIntoTheStory]

Nora Ephron: “Don’t write what they want, they don’t know what they want, just make it GOOD.” #screenwriting

[Khaya Dlanga @khayadlanga]

Just because one has benefitted from the gains of democracy does not mean one must consent to abuse, mismanagement, willful blindness, political criminality or corruption. Benefiting from change is not a lifelong contract to tolerate poor leadership. It is astonishing that this still needs to be said out loud.

There is a reason so many have abandoned the ANC. People are not irrational for walking away. Humans vote in their self-interest. As Napoleon put it, "Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self-interest." Well, the electorate at this point is moved by both: the fear that their future is being squandered by elected officials, and the self-interest to preserve what remains of it.

It is ironic then, that ANC leadership decries this "self-interest" among voters while many within their own ranks have ruthlessly pursued self-enrichment at the expense of the people they are meant to serve. Voters are, after all, merely following the example set by their leaders: prioritising their own survival by abandoning those who have abandoned them: the ANC.

Gwede saying that the middle class is “ungrateful” ignores historical data. There is also a reason why the ANC’s middle class support peaked under Mbeki. Yes, he had shortcomings, no one disputes that. But he presided over the longest period of economic expansion in our history, including the apartheid era for those who are oddly nostalgic about that economy. This did not happen by accident.

In fact, had the economy continued to grow at the same rate (4.5%) after Mbeki left, it would be double its current size. That should anger anyone. Sorry Gwede, people are not ungrateful, they are angry.

Some data under Mbeki:

Growth: The economy grew at an average of 4.5%. Had we maintained that trajectory, our economy would be double its current size today.

Employment: The "jobless growth" narrative is a fallacy born of laziness. Under Mbeki, the economy produced 500,000 new jobs a year. Employment nearly doubled from roughly 8 million in 1994 to 15 million by the time the Polokwane conference concluded.

Service Delivery: For every one shack erected during that period, ten formal houses were built.

Fiscal Health: Mbeki handed over a budget surplus, the first in our history.

The ANC even secured a two-thirds majority during this era because people felt the results in their pockets and their communities. They rewarded competence.

Contrast this with what followed. The very party that now demands loyalty abandoned its responsibility to the economy in favour of factionalism and self-enrichment.

Under Jacob Zuma, average growth plummeted to 1.8%, and job creation halved to 250,000 a year.

Under President Ramaphosa, despite the "New Dawn" rhetoric, we are averaging only 100,000 new jobs a year. (Although I am cautiously optimistic recently).

The ANC vote share declined seems to follow the pattern of the economy. As Bill Clinton’s Chief Strategist, James Carville put in when Clinton was running the presidency in 1992, “It’s the economy stupid!”

So for Gwede to claim that the middle class has benefitted most from change yet refuses to identify with the ANC is either arrogant or out of touch. It sounds very much like an argument made to protect power rather than to interrogate the ANC’s very poor performance, which I understand [power is lovely] but cannot condone.

Why should the current ANC be rewarded? For commissions of inquiries? For apologies? People reward delivery, not nostalgia. The ANC is losing votes because it abused the platform it inherited sixteen years ago. People are not confused. To quote my favourite philosopher, the late great Paul Bearer, The Undertaker’s promoter, people are, “Sick and tired of being sick and tired,” and being expected to applaud decline.

[Katy Katopodis @KatyKatopodis]

Allow me to correct you … because I was actually there. Sitting a mere three chairs away from him.
So, I can verify that at NO point did the President think there were no cameras. He was acutely aware of the cameras in the room.
This was an ON THE RECORD meeting with the SANEF executive & Media Monitoring teams.

[MaMhlanga Nompumelelo @Mpumiln]

We follow specials thina, we don’t have a favourite 😂

[Nthabiseng Mokoena @NthabiMo]

SAA travel is a nightmare!

[Redi Tlhabi @RediTlhabi]

She is a medical doctor, former VC of UCT, and World Bank Director. Yes, a lot of "THEM" are educated. Since Dr Mamphele is "THEM," let me say, "You people" are irredeemably prejudiced.

[Sis' Lu @Titizma1]

Kanti why abantu abanuka umlomo like talking close to your face😭

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

To forgive does not mean to deny evil, but to prevent it from generating further evil. It is not to say that nothing has happened, but to do everything possible to ensure that resentment does not determine the future.

[Jacques Joubert @jfjoubert]

The 1913 Land Act was a betrayal of the black farmers who fed Boer commandos and their families during the war against the British. Such a betrayal is not easily forgiven.

[cthulhucachoo @Cthulhucachoo]

The invention of expropriation without compensation.