Whenever my boyfriend and I are driving somewhere and I see a car identical to his, Iβll quickly say βNangu mina nawe sesbuyaβ and he will look at me emehlweni umbone bandla ukuthi uyazisola ngokujola nengane ayshiya ngo8 yearsπ
"You're f****** crazy. You'd be in prison if it weren't for me. I'm saving your a***. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this."
That's what a U.S. official tells Axios President Trump unloaded on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a heated phone call over Israel's military actions in Lebanon.
Trump was reportedly furious that Israel's moves risked blowing up U.S. diplomatic efforts in the region, at one point also asking Netanyahu: "What the f*** are you doing?"
π¨A must read feedback about xenophobia in South Africa.
Thank you for the criticism & feedback. ππΎ
βPan-Africanism is not a sentiment. It's not just "Africans should love each other." Real Pan-Africanism, the kind that Nkrumah and Cabral and Biko were actually talking about, is built on a clear-eyed analysis of colonial and neocolonial structures. It asks who benefits from African disunity. It asks who wins when Black people in Lagos and Black people in Johannesburg are at each other's throats.
The answer to that question is not another Black African.
Pan-African solidarity that papers over structural inequality isn't solidarity. It's a performance. It asks Black South Africans to extend grace to other Africans without anyone extending grace to them about the foundational injustice that still shapes their daily lives.
That's not a sustainable ask. And it will keep failing until the deeper conversation gets had.β