The replies to this tweet are funny. We somehow have to pretend that black players are still not excluded in some positions at junior level so we can't celebrate when they defeat the odds. South Africans are a funny bunch...
The fact we are going to have our first trillionaire before everyone has access to clean drinking water is proof our current system is not for the greater good but for the greedy.
If you’re frothing at the mouth because I keep pointing out the evils of apartheid and how they can’t be compared with our present reality that’s fine. But don’t tell me your opinion of my lived experience. And NO - we shall NEVER forget.
Mama Winnie Mandela said:
How dare they say it’s time to move on from apartheid? How dare those who oppressed us tell us to forget their brutality? No one will prescribe how I should feel, remember, or view the past I come from. #TheTrialsofWinnieMandela
I slept over at my cousin's place(at the hood) bc he advised me not to drive back so late last night. He stays on the main road. By 4:30 AM, I was woken up by the sound of taxi's hooting & people commuting to work. Man, you can't tell me that black South Africans are "lazy."
I'm on episode 7 of "The Trials of Winnie Mandela". MaNgutyana says, "I am one of those who want to be reminded of that painful past so that it doesn't happen to my grandchildren...dare I forget!"
She forces us to face this history, to not look away. And to reduce it to 'complexity' actually does injustice to just how plainly unjust the system was. It is unjust to police how she played the hand she was dealt.
Everytime we discuss the apartheid regime and what it did to our people… the minority in our country suddenly lose their cool and their undies tie knots!
Suddenly we are ridiculous for even trying to discuss it after so many years!
The fxck?
Mavericks guard Kyrie Irving changed his Instagram profile picture to a photo of a Palestinian child holding a book and looking back at Israeli soldiers standing behind razor wire.
The photo was originally captured by Palestinian journalist @the_andrey_x.
Houghton Golf Club bans a player because he has a Palestinian flag on his car.
The insidious influence and control of and by zionists 🤔 is disconcerting....
Our justice centric patriot argued correctly...
The Mbombela Stadium scandal that South Africa forgot.
April 2006 – Bobby Motaung's company Lefika wins the stadium design tender using a FRAUDULENT tax clearance certificate.
Late 2008 – Council Speaker Jimmy Mohlala begins legal steps to cancel the contract & calls for criminal charges against Motaung.
5 Jan 2009 – ONE DAY before Mohlala is due to lay charges, he is ASSASSINATED outside his home in front of his son. No one has ever been convicted.
15 Aug 2012 – Hawks arrest Motaung & co-accused for fraud worth R920 million. Released on bail.
July 2016 – ALL charges dropped. Case struck off the roll. Witnesses allegedly intimidated.
2024 – Mpumalanga launches a unit to investigate political killings. Mohlala's case is listed. Nothing came of it so far
After I confronted @helenzille, one thing is very clear: South Africans can see the truth even when politicians refuse to. The DA should support South Africa’s ICJ case, stop coal to Israel, back boycott and sanction, and stop pretending genocide is too complicated to name.