White and Indian South Africans are making billions as we speak. They are making billions on the stock exchange, building businesses, investing and taking advantage of opportunities in your country.
And here you are, spending your time insulting and targeting a black African who, when he is in your country, lives there legally, pays his taxes, commits no crime and supports poor black South Africans whenever he can, including helping some students with university fees.
You are targeting me for no reason. Then tomorrow, you complain that you are poor.
How can you escape poverty when you invest so much time and energy in useless pursuits against a black African who has done nothing wrong to you? I live in your country legally. I pay taxes. I respect the law. I do not burden the state. In fact, I use my own resources to support people who need help.
Do you understand when you are told that your mindset is part of what keeps you poor and trapped in poverty?
You are not poor because of Africans living in South Africa. You are poor because of historical injustice, failed economic policies, corruption, inequality and a mindset that has been manipulated into blaming fellow Africans instead of confronting the real causes of poverty.
You focus on trivial and frivolous things. You spend your days shouting xenophobic slogans on social media when others are making money and building a legacy for their children and grandkids. You are abusing people who have done nothing wrong to you, and then wonder why your own life is not improving.
You do not live under a dictatorship. South Africa has its own serious problems, but it also has massive opportunities. It has universities, businesses, financial markets, entrepreneurship programmes, affirmative-action policies like BEE, which was created to broaden black participation in the economy to help people like you.
Instead of asking how you can use those opportunities to uplift yourself, your family and your community, you are busy targeting Africans on Twitter. Some Africans arrived in South Africa with nothing but determination. They went to university, acquired skills, built businesses and became executives in companies operating in your own country.
The difference is not always where people come from. It is often how they think, what they focus on and how they use the opportunities available to them.
While you are spending your days chasing and insulting people who have committed no crime against you, others are studying, investing, building businesses, buying property and creating opportunities for their families.
It is a reminder that xenophobia will not create jobs, improve schools, build hospitals or put food on your table. It will only distract you from the people and policies responsible for the conditions you are complaining about.
So, my sister, it is time to start thinking. It is time to stop allowing politicians, propagandists and social-media influencers to turn poor Africans against one another while the powerful continue accumulating wealth.
Your enemy is not a law-abiding African who pays taxes and helps people in need. Your enemy is the poverty, corruption, inequality and economic exclusion that keep millions of South Africans trapped.
You cannot spend your life attacking fellow Africans and then blame the world when poverty refuses to leave your home. Change your mindset, reclaim your dignity and use your energy to build something.
I agree with this opinion piece published on the SABC website.
Xenophobic politics often emerge whenever elections are held in South Africa. Opportunistic political actors take genuine social and economic problems and falsely present illegal immigration as their primary cause, exploiting an unsophisticated and captive audience.
They weaponise hatred against foreign nationals as a pathway to Parliament, provincial legislatures and municipal councils. Instead of offering serious solutions to unemployment, corruption, poor service delivery, crime and failing institutions, they search for vulnerable people to blame.
It is important that the biggest broadcaster in South Africa and on the African continent has summoned the courage to state this self-evident truth. Xenophobia is not a solution to South Africa’s problems. It is a political strategy used by people who have no serious answers.
This post by @NgoniDanzwa about the legendary Tonderai Ndira is a timely reminder that our struggle for democratic change in Zimbabwe has real heroes. Heroes who paid the ultimate price for freedom.
They never drove SUVs, never lived in the leafy suburbs of Harare, their children never went to private school, and they never wore sharp tailored suits. They never regaled people with motivational rhetoric. They just DID. They were people of action, and died in action, persuaded that only ACTION is the true game changer!
Rest in peace, Cde Ndira!
@online_zifa “Zimbabwe said: enough talking, bring the VAR. 🇿🇼📺
@SAFA_net said: Let’s have another meeting. 🇿🇦😂
Football waits for nobody.”
The equipment procurement is reportedly underway as Zimbabwe prepares to install the system at its major football stadiums.
@robertmarawa
If you buy people more than 300 cars and give them away then a guy with Honda is more popular and more loved than you maybe you must sit down and reflect , money will never buy love 🤷🏻♂️
Lehono lenaneo la #Sedibeng le gašwa gotšwa Lephalale , Shongwane 2 , sekolong sa tlasana sa Mmera Primary School go ketekwa letšatši la lefase la Maswi.
Theeletša ge Thomas Masha ‘Hlabirwa’ a go tlišetša tšona go 87.6-92.1 FM.
China’s autonomous robotic fish for underwater surveillance.
It’s called BG-5 Golden Dragon Fish developed by Boyagongdao Marine Tech Group.
Meanwhile Mutambara is still writing long speeches & taking pictures & sharing them in WhatsApp groups
Sir Wicknell Chivayo has spoilt himself with a latest brand-new 2026 Rolls-Royce Spectre full electric from Fouche Motors in Sandton. The vehicle was advertised at 21 million rand but in a video on his Instagram Mr Chivayo thanked the Dealer Principal Mr Mahomed for giving him good a discount. Over the last 3 years Mr Chivayo has spent over 200 million USD on charity work all over Africa. This latest luxury toy comes after he earlier this year bought himself a GULFSTREAM G550 for 34 million USD, a 10 million USD house in Clifton Capetown and three helicopters for 16 million USD amongst other luxuries
Today at 15h00 on #AfricanRenaissancePodcast
On implications of South Africa’s White Population projected to be less than 2% in 2050.
Tune is at 15h00: https://t.co/SPRlEOldiM
This is one of the few times when I agree with the World Bank. I am a critic of the World Bank by the way.
The argument to move to mono-currency, in other words, moving to local-currency-only use must not be anchored on nationalistic emotions AND the propensity for monetary policy control which itself will still be an emotional nationalistic argument.
There are critical nuances missed by the drive towards mono-currency:
•Zimbabwe has proven that it can grow at ~5% or above under dual-currency conditions.
•The USD is driving a significant investment inflow, including driving local productivity, with limitations of course.
•Zimbabwe is the only country with that advantage in Africa at the moment, including DRC to a limited extent. It shock absorbs local producers from drastic devaluations that countries like Nigeria and Kenya experienced in the last couple of years.
•USD cash circulation including in deep rural settings is in large part thanks to artisanal gold mining. A currency change will funnel all that gold out via smuggling channels like before. Formal gold production will plummet as before.
•It’s valuable to be agnostic to nationalism when it comes to this currency issue.
In fact, we can adopt Deng Xiaping’s wisdom with regards to the currency debate: It doesn’t matter if the currency is black or white, as long as it catches mice.
https://t.co/vefX8YCOT4