I want to buy a Chicago Fire Mbokazi jersey now - just because you're so incredibly invested in our starboy. I know promoting such an amazing player can net a great payday for you if you end up selling, too, but you saw value in him when foreign clubs tried to fit him into stereotypes. You respected the competition offered in PSL and you respected the local voices who supported him. You were right to do so.
In a world where African soccer is routinely maligned even by those in power, you still saw him. It should be the bare minimum for recruiters but unfortunately it isn't. You were the exception to the rule and you loved him for us when he was so far away from home.
Even at the very risk you'd have him for a good time, not a long time.
South Africa ❤️ @ChicagoFire and @MLS for this
Do you understand why Palestine is in the state it's in today? Outsiders arrived as immigrants, settled permanently, took control of the land, and gradually displaced and oppressed the indigenous population. Exactly what we are seeing right now in South Africa.
🚨 Iran captain Mehdi Taremi just exposed @FIFAcom and the US:
“This is a disaster World Cup. Infantino promised to fix everything in our locker room… he did nothing. We can’t stay in Seattle — forced back to Tijuana every time. They want us out.”
Visa denials for staff. Day-before travel from Mexico. No recovery. Constant harassment because Iran refuses to bow.
This isn’t sport. It’s political sabotage by the empire using the World Cup as a weapon.
FIFA claims neutrality while Infantino plays lapdog. Iranian players still fighting with dignity.
Expose it. Stand with the players.
There are PSG and Bayern Munich players on that pitch chasing PSL shadows.
We are good enough, I will never stop saying this, whoever tries gaslighting us must be put in their place immediately!
PSL footballers took us to the World Cup and took us out of our group into the knockout stage. A league in Africa.
Never let that go unsaid. We are doing something right 👏🏾
I voted for Gayton McKenzie (& the PA) because he seemed to be doing good, impactful work in the Karoo. He posted his work regularly - like Dr Nasiphi Moya is doing currently in Tshwane.
I had hope that he would do more community-level work with greater power in parliament. I gave him one vote & gave ActionSA one vote.
After the elections, McKenzie became imbongi (a praise singer) & a vocal defender of Cyril Ramaphosa & the ANC.
He has gone back on his promises & today even speaks ill of ordinary SAns crying out about illegal foreigners, after he jumped & screamed "abaHambe" on stage.
If I supported Ramaphosa the way he does, I could've voted for the ANC, but I didn't. The ANC is corrupt, hates SAns & Ramaphosa is the worst president the country has had.
I'm very disappointed in Gayton McKenzie. I'm very disappointed in the PA.
At the time, it seemed like a good decision to vote for Gayton based on his work & where he said he wanted to put in necessary work. He's done a 180 since joining parliament & becoming a minister.
I'm sorry for voting for the PA & giving them power. I will not vote for them again. 🙏🏽
Now... we hold our breath to see if/when ActionSA will also disappoint us... coz seemingly all politicians serve their funders & not their voters nor ordinary SAns.
South Africans are in kak. We need non-racial "Afriforums" run by ppl like Vuyo Zungula, Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma & Dr Nasiphi Moya. Inde lendlela ✊🏽
Let me be direct, you sit comfortably in the UK, sipping tea, while your people at home choke under dictatorship and incompetent leadership. You are a useless African. Yes, I said it. Because you have the platform, the education, the diaspora privilege and you use it to lobby for South Africa to absorb your failures, rather than to demand accountability from your own presidents.
African countries are sitting on trillions in minerals cobalt, gold, lithium, oil. Enough wealth to build hospitals, schools, and railways. Yet your leaders fly private jets, park millions in Dubai, and you say nothing. You march for Palestine, you tweet for BLM, but when your own head of state steals the national budget, you are silent. That is not solidarity. That is cowardice dressed as activism.
And now you come to South Africa, demanding we open our borders, our schools, our clinics while your own governments deport their own citizens without a whisper. You expect us to be a continent's charity while you refuse to be your own country's conscience.
Let me ask you🤔 how do you let another man enter your home illegally, abuse your wife, terrorise your children and you watch? That is what you are asking South Africans to do. To stand aside while criminal syndicates, illegal foreigners, and economic migrants overrun our communities, and we are supposed to smile? Nonsense.
We are not your safety net. We are not your escape plan. We are a sovereign nation with our own poor, our own unemployed youth, our own collapsing infrastructure. We have every right to secure our borders without your permission, without your approval, and without your performative outrage.
People should Go home. Fix their own houses. Hold their own leaders accountable. Stop demanding that South Africa pay for your leaders' failures. That is not pan-Africanism. That is parasitism. And we are done hosting it. Nonsense!!!!!!
Catch Me If You Can has always been my personal favorite Steven Spielberg movie. It’s officially Spielberg Week & as such, I find myself revisiting his most memorable work. Also worth noting is this was one of Amy Adams’ first roles- she’s truly excellent in Apple’s new Cape Fear