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[SK @SithembelaKhum4]

@AfricanHub_ But they are quiet when South Sudanese, Congolians, and Nigerian girls human rights are violated daily. AU has no intentions of uniting Africa.

[SK @SithembelaKhum4]

I received a payout message of R 510 but on the app has 1 void and I only got R150 from a R100 wager. I explained this on betway live chat and was told my matter has been escalated and would receive a response in 24hours. The time frame has now lapsed. What do I do?
@Betway_za

[SK @SithembelaKhum4]

@arisaqz1 .....

[Bassem Youssef Commentary @bassem_youssef9]

Israel targets a Palestinian mother and her son during their displacement with a rocket.
IT'S MADNESS they used a rocket with hundreds of thousands of dollars to kill a mother and her son.
These are the weapons that are flowing to them from the US and EU to kill innocent people

[TSOGANG VUKANI AMKENI @Tsogang3]

This guy is a farmer 🤣 cause farmers think like this every day 😂 everything they spend money on has to make money 😂

[NADA 𓂆 @nadaa01012]

If you’re scrolling, PLEASE leave a dot.

[Earth Hippy 🌎🕊️💚 @hippyygoat]

This is how American veterans are treated.

She put her life on the line for her Country and this is the gratitude she's shown by her country.

[SK @SithembelaKhum4]

@terencecrawford you couldn't stoop that low even if you tried. Imagine trying to make a weight that's below the belt height.

[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

The United States has 800 military bases worldwide and would love to have one in South Africa. However, because of South Africa’s political positioning, this is not viable. This is where Starlink comes in.

Proponents of Elon Musk’s satellite internet present it as a solution to rural disconnection, a godsend for farmers, rural clinics and schoolchildren. But Starlink is not just bandwidth in the bundus. It’s a Trojan Horse designed for 21st-century American domination.

If and when South Africa opens its airspace, it will find that “securing our borders” is the least of its problems. South Africans will discover that sovereignty leaks not through borders but through satellites.

Starlink pretends to be a neutral service provider. But neutrality is fiction in geopolitics. While its marketing speaks of farmers and learners, Starlink’s parent company, SpaceX, is neck-deep in the US military-industrial complex.

SpaceX holds Pentagon contracts for missile tracking and battlefield communication. Its satellites are integrated into NATO-linked defence networks. And under the Starshield programme, it is actively developing military-grade space capabilities.

In Ukraine, we saw the real Starlink: coordinating drone strikes, powering real-time battlefield intelligence, and even at Elon Musk’s whim, it dictated the limits of military operations. This isn’t telecoms. It’s geopolitical domination masquerading as broadband.

Now imagine this network quietly embedding itself across South Africa, not as a traditional foreign base with boots on the ground, but as a network of terminals, antennas, and encrypted channels beyond local control. No soldiers, no flag. Just a silent satellite occupation.

Starlink doesn’t need to obey local laws; it bypasses them. Ground stations may be offshore or in neighbouring states. Traffic is routed through US-controlled channels.

When Starlink lands, ICASA will be rendered irrelevant, sidelined by a network that answers not to Pretoria but to Palo Alto and the Pentagon. Forget the BEE requirements. Your honourable members in the Parliamentary committees can discuss them vigourously amongst themselves.

In practice, this means any embassy, NGO or mining company using Starlink would be operating in a digital enclave, communicating independently of the state, shielded from scrutiny, and free from South African jurisdiction. This is the erosion of digital sovereignty, and it’s happening under the radar, literally.

Across Africa right now, NGOs operating in conflict zones or resource-rich regions now rely on Starlink. This creates a parallel communications infrastructure: fast, encrypted, and entirely unaccountable to the host state. These terminals can communicate across borders without touching local networks, making them invisible to regulators, security agencies, and even policymakers.

In practice, this means that foreign-funded NGOs, mining firms, and diplomatic missions can operate within South Africa but outside its digital jurisdiction. South Africa will be digitally Balkanised by infrastructure it neither owns nor controls.

Real-time African data on movement, transactions, agriculture, climate, and demographics will be harvested without oversight and used to train AI models, support predictive policing, or guide strategic investments. All of this happens outside African jurisdictions, enriching US intelligence, tech firms, and defence agencies.

Crucially, the data flowing through these Starlink terminals is not neutral. It’s routed through US-controlled ground stations, governed by American law, and increasingly fed into AI systems, surveillance platforms, and military simulations.

Now, contrast this with how the United States treats foreign technology. Huawei was banned outright because the US believes it could compromise national security. TikTok has faced legislative bans, sanctions, and forced divestments. The justification is that American sovereignty must be protected from Chinese infrastructure.

But in Africa, US tech is welcomed with no questions asked. Starlink is entering countries like Nigeria, Rwanda, Kenya, and Zambia, often outside normal regulatory processes, with no public debate, and in most cases, in defiance of local telecom and regulatory laws.

Where the US sees data infrastructure as a matter of national defence, African governments too often see it as a development opportunity. But digital dependency is still dependency, and when the infrastructure is foreign-owned, so is the power.

The brilliance of Starlink is that it needs no bases. Its dishes are rural clinics. Its antennas are schools. Its forward-operating stations are NGOs. And its justification is always wrapped in the warm glow of “progress.”

But we must learn from history: the railroads of the colonial empires weren’t built for the people, they were built to extract. Today’s satellites do not just connect, they entrench, create dependencies, determine how data flows, how communications are routed and who holds the keys to the cloud.

Already, Starlink is live across much of Africa. In each case, its arrival is celebrated as “leapfrogging traditional telecoms technology.” But Africans should ask themselves what they are leapfrogging into.

South Africa is next in line to be lulled by the illusion of harmless technology, and once this system is embedded, it cannot be dislodged.

The truth is that Starlink is not in it for the money. The commercial model makes no sense in rural South Africa, where the incomes are low and the population is sparse. There’s a reason why network coverage is poor in rural areas. There’s no money to be made there.

Meanwhile, the people who can afford to pay for Starlink are in urban areas and already have relatively affordable high-speed LTE and fibre. So why the interest?

Because, again, this isn’t about profit, it’s about presence and judging by how Starlink is brushing aside the country’s BEE laws, it will almost certainly pressure regulators for exemptions and use NGO-driven deployments to sidestep procurement laws.

The feel-good narrative of “connecting the unconnected” is not philanthropy, it’s a Trojan Horse aimed at the last African state with both the capacity and the inclination to resist American technological dominance.

This isn’t about giving villagers 480p YouTube. It’s about embedding US communications in a BRICS country, dominating infrastructure for NGOs and military contractors, securing exclusive access to real-time African data for AI and intelligence applications, and weakening South Africa’s sovereignty without ever firing a shot.

Starlink is the perfect proxy: a private company doing what governments can’t admit to. For South Africa, accepting Starlink means accepting the expropriation of digital control.

History teaches us that the technologies of empire rarely announce themselves with weapons. They come with promises. They come with progress, and they are here.

[MDN NEWS @MDNnewss]

Afrikaner ‘refugee’ Santana de Bruyn lists R2.3 million home after relocating to US

Afrikaner “refugee” Santana de Bruyn has put her five-bedroom home in Lorraine, Gqeberha valued at R2.3 million, on the market after relocating to the United States.

De Bruyn and her family were part of a group of 49 white South Africans who flew to the U.S. under a special refugee program.

Her property, described as an “oasis,” features a pool and spacious living areas.

[knick @Knick_RSA]

Rupert Told Trump that Zuma Rejected American 🇺🇸 Drones and Tech because Zuma Believed Americans would Spy On Us.

🙏🏽🙏🏽Msholozi was a Legend, he knew this Because Russian & Chinese Intelligence informed him of how American Tech is used to Spy.

That is exactly what Starlink is- it’s a Spy Technology that can pick up any movement from anywhere in the world.

[Pieter Kriel @pieterkrielorg]

The right doesn’t hate me because I’m wrong, they hate me because I’ve shattered the fragile fantasy that they were supposed to lead. This isn’t criticism. It’s jealousy dressed as political relevance.

[SK @SithembelaKhum4]

@jsteenhuisen I can already see the Star Link bots roaming around the Cape Flats.

[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

During Apartheid, White South Africans enjoyed a standard of living higher than that of most advanced Western countries, while living in a Third World Country.

In the 1980s, South African firms averaged annual profits of 25% of gross revenue, compared to just 6.5% in Britain and 4.1% in Germany.

Over 2000 foreign businesses operated in the country then, including 1200 British, 350 German, and 340 American firms, with foreign investment reaching $30 billion, accounting for roughly 20% of the country’s industry. The total value of companies in South Africa surged by 400% in the 1970s.

But this prosperity was grotesquely unequal. Black factory workers, who drove South Africa’s manufacturing sector to become its most productive industry, earned just 18% of what their White counterparts made.

Overall, White per capita income was 10 times higher than that of Black South Africans. Even more damning, Black workers earned less in 1971 than they had in 1911.

This wasn’t just economic exclusion—it was lethal. The Black infant mortality rate was 13 times higher than that of Whites, and 25% of Black children died before their first birthday.

By the early 1980s, South Africa had the most unequal income distribution in the world.

Decades later, South Africa remains the undisputed global champion of racial inequality. Since 1994, while Apartheid officially ended, its economic architecture largely remained intact. White South Africans have retained significant economic privilege, yet many still resist transformation.

This is strange because White households still earn three to five times more than Black households (Stats SA, 2022). Over 72% of top management roles remain White-dominated (Commission for Employment Equity, 2023). Land ownership remains disproportionately White-controlled.

The irony is that the very system that enriched White South Africans under Apartheid—property rights protections, access to global capital, and a stable financial sector—has been preserved by democracy and now shields their inherited advantage.

Yet, instead of acknowledging Apartheid’s enduring legacy, many White South Africans weaponise bad faith narratives of “poor governance” and “corruption” to chip away at Black majority rule. (https://t.co/wcobzoilqa)

These critiques have no intention of building a more just society—they serve to delegitimise the democratic state without addressing the structural inequality that democracy inherited.

Corruption exists, yes—but so does the historic theft of land, labour, and opportunity, which many conveniently ignore.

The constant calls for “meritocracy” and “efficiency” mask a desire to reassert racial dominance under the guise of technocratic neutrality. (https://t.co/v4AvMToIYO)

The grievances are not about hardship but a stubborn unwillingness to share resources. (See my pinned post)

President Julius Nyerere was right https://t.co/ClpsIvmpxz

[Clout Duke @cloutduke]

"White Genocide in South Africa?" The complicated truth behind a dangerous narrative. From Dutch colonization in 1652 to apartheid's fall in 1994, South Africa's history is defined by racial struggle. Today, some claim white Afrikaners face "reverse apartheid," a narrative amplified by @realDonaldTrump and @elonmusk. But is it accurate?

This video unpacks how South Africa's painful journey toward equality is being weaponized in American politics. When policies addressing 300 years of oppression are reframed as "anti-white discrimination," whose agenda does it serve?

A thoughtful exploration of how historical context matters when discussing racial justice, both in South Africa and abroad.
#SouthAfricanHistory #RacialJustice #MediaLiteracy

[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

Euro-Americans detest Adolf Hitler because he took the brand of racism that was only meant for “those people” in the colonies in Africa and Asia and brought it to the heart of Europe.

[SK @SithembelaKhum4]

@TelkomZA Your company has been debiting unexplained money from my account for the past two months. Yesterday they debited R624 from my account. It is not the first time I have had this kind of problem with Telkom. Can you please assist.

[TSOGANG VUKANI AMKENI @Tsogang3]

We collected 810 eggs yesterday 😋

I'm happy with the laying percentage 🤣 I mean, this is more than what I was hoping for 🤣

[SK @SithembelaKhum4]

@Tsogang3 You finally opened the gates for uJohn wenkukhu. He clearly took advantage of istoko.

Congratulations bro you're an inspiration.

[MLANDO @MLANDO60870174]

Sizoyilungisa le kauntri impela angeke yasehlula,soloku sigwazile nje kancane kancane