Village Champion

We are not so different after all, though our customs and traditions would have us believe otherwise. #Amakhosi #Barca & #Gunners

[Lucky Lefty @InnoWire_Maluks]

Bro took us out of the trenches, I'll forever be grateful.

[Peter du Toit @peterSoccerBeat]

Only ONE of the Moroccan starting eleven is born in Morroco and not one of them play in the Moroccan league. Compare that to Bafana. Yet we still competed and with a bit more positivity we could be playing against Morroco today !

[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

When Ghana gained independence in 1957, Israel was one of the first countries to set up an embassy in Accra.

Israel’s ambassador Ehud Avriel became a close confidant of Kwame Nkrumah, and within a year, Israel had fulfilled almost every item on Nkrumah’s development wish list.

The Zionists financed water infrastructure, construction, a shipping company, military training, pilot schools, even helped with setting up Ghana’s famous National Symphony Orchestra.

Israel further extended Ghana a $20 million loan and signed a trade agreement. Ghana was basically used as a showcase of Israeli development for the rest of the continent.

Obviously, Israel wasn’t doing this out of generosity. After being shut out of the 1955 Bandung Conference, where Asian and African nations formally supported Palestinian rights, Israel desperately needed Africans to block Arab influence at the UN. Ghana was the entry point to that strategy.

At the same time, using its strong diplomatic foothold in Ghana, Israel aggressively courted Patrice Lumumba and his party, the Mouvement National Congolais, before the Congo gained independence from Belgium. Israel presented itself as a small, fellow socialist-leaning nation that could offer invaluable technical and developmental assistance without the historical baggage of European colonial powers.

Lumumba, committed to a policy of “positive neutralism”, refusing to align blindly with the West or the Soviet Union, welcomed the prospect of diverse international partnerships.

So, when the Democratic Republic of the Congo became independent in June 1960, Israel immediately established an embassy in Léopoldville, appointing Nkrumah’s close friend Avriel as ambassador.

When the “Congo Crisis” erupted almost immediately after independence, Lumumba’s government faced Western-backed secession of the mineral-rich Katanga province and Israel attempted to remain supportive of Lumumba’s central government by publicly refusing to recognise the breakaway state.

However, the Congo-Israel relationship deteriorated rapidly as Lumumba grew frustrated with Western nations and the United Nations for failing to help him suppress the Katanga secession. In desperation, Lumumba turned to the Soviet Union for assistance.

As a result, Israel aligned itself with the pro-Western factions in the Congo, while Lumumba forged a close alliance with Egypt, Israel’s primary regional adversary at the time. Lumumba was assassinated shortly thereafter.

Similarly, Nkrumah’s pan-African vision eventually pulled him away from Israel. By 1961, he was aligning with Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser who was a fierce enemy of Israel, and led the movement that declared Israel “an instrument of imperialism and neocolonialism”.
Within five years, Nkrumah was deposed in a military coup d’état.

The key takeaway here is that international friendships are always strategy. Whether it’s Taiwan in Eswatini or Israel in Rwanda today, you should always follow the money and the geopolitics.

[Village Champion @TebogoMasingi]

Majority of South Africans didn't even know that there was a rugby match today. Football is and will always be our first love.

[Larry Madowo @LarryMadowo]

South Africa has returned to its first love - rugby - after failed soccer side quest

[mrnigerianfootball @CFCNigerian]

South Africa and morocco are the first 2 African nations to the qualify for the knock out stages. The CAF Champions League Final this year was between ASFAR and Sundowns. Guess where they're from ?

You can't cheat Football. You'll always be reward when you invest into Football.

[John Perlman @JohnPerlman]

In January 2015 @DreamfieldsP launched our very first DreamLeague at Setlabotjha Primary in Sebokeng. 146 learners signed up for to play 5-a-side football so they could learn the game. Last night in Monterrey one of those boys, Thapelo Maseko, made all our dreams come true

[Aldrin Sampear @AldrinSampear]

The Lies

They accuse us of being genocidal
They accuse us of being xenophobic
Our victories are their worst nightmares
And still we sing Nkos’ Sikelela iAfrica
A prayer by RSA for the African continent
We are a loving people
We are a resilient nation
Our glass is always half-full

I’m proud to be South African 🇿🇦

[Joseph Bertrand @JoBertrand19]

Stop comparing the expectations placed on the Springboks & Bafana Bafana.

We need to stop benchmarking both teams as if they are competing in the same global ecosystem.

If rugby had 150 countries playing it seriously, Boks probably wouldn't have won 4 World Cups.

A thread 👇

[ᜰ 🇦🇷 @markklfc]

Thierry Henry on South Africa qualifying for the World Cup knockout stage for the first time ever:

🗣️ “This is why we love football. Tonight isn't just a victory for South Africa. Tonight is history. An entire nation has waited for a moment like this, and now it finally belongs to them.”

“When the final whistle blew, you could see the emotion everywhere. The players, the staff, the fans. These are the moments people remember for the rest of their lives.”

“Many people didn't believe South Africa would get this far. They were underestimated before the tournament started, but they kept fighting, kept believing, and now they have achieved something no South African team has ever achieved before.”

“Look at those players. Some of them grew up dreaming about representing their country on the biggest stage. Tonight they didn't just represent South Africa they made history for it.”

“What makes this story beautiful is that nobody can take it away from them. Years from now, people will still talk about the team that broke the barrier and carried South Africa into the knockout rounds for the very first time.”

“This is bigger than football. Somewhere in South Africa, young boys and girls are watching this team and believing that anything is possible.”

“South Korea fought hard, but tonight belonged to South Africa. Every tackle, every save, every sprint was for a place in history, and they earned it.”

“The celebrations will be unforgettable because these players know exactly what they have done. They haven't just won a match. They have given an entire country a moment of pride.”

“When people talk about the greatest stories of this World Cup, South Africa's name deserves to be part of that conversation.”

“Tonight, millions of South Africans will go to sleep smiling. Not because their team won 1-0, but because their nation has achieved something it had never achieved before.”

[Vino Snap 🇿🇦 @snap_vino]

Pass. Mofokeng ➡️ Assist. Moremi ➡️ Goal. Maseko ⚽️
Vaal Connection 🇮🇹
South Africa 1-0 South Korea
MY HEART IS FULL

[South African Government @GovernmentZA]

.👏🏽 Congratulations to Proteas captain Temba Bavuma on being named among TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in Sports.

Well done, Captain. South Africa is proud of you.

#Proteas #TIMEPeople #Unbreakable #SouthAfrica

[Mthokozisi Dube @dube_mthoko]

🇿🇦 "𝕀 𝕛𝕦𝕤𝕥 𝕗𝕖𝕝𝕥 𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕡𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕖𝕟𝕔𝕖 𝕒𝕥 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕞𝕠𝕞𝕖𝕟𝕥..."

Bafana hero Teboho Mokoena opens up on the deeply personal reason behind his viral national anthem tears ahead of the Czechia draw.

The midfielder dedicates his massive World Cup moment to his late grandfather, who believed in him when no one else did.

#RSACZE #FIFAWorldCup #FARPost

[robertmarawa @robertmarawa]

GOOOOAAAAAAAAAALL!!!!!!

MOKOENA 1-1

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[Joe Crann @YesWeCrann]

TEBZA!! Couldn’t be happier for him. Good pen, too.

#Bafana have hung in here, and kept plugging away. So much better from them today.

[Village Champion @TebogoMasingi]

@_GhChronicles We don't even know of your existence.

[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

It may be too late now, but every Black person still needs to listen to what Anele Maphanga is saying here

[Mbuyiseni Ndlozi @MbuyiseniNdlozi]

For the sake of your children, who each morning must wake up and go to school, stop insulting education.

Somehow you have grown accustomed to insulting education as a way to make your arguments. Very tragic culture I must say!

There is no pride in being an ignorant people!

You can perfectly disagree with anyone without insulting education.

Why would you want to breed an education hating nation?

Unless of course, you are working with those who have benefited for centuries out of keeping Africans ignorant!

#MakingEducationFashionable

[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

The masses of our people don’t appreciate it when you say you can chase out every single immigrant, illegal and legal, and unemployment would not budge.

In fact, there are decades-long studies showing that removing immigrants from an economy causes unemployment to spike for native workers and for the domestic economy to contract.

This is not difficult to understand when you consider that native-born workers and undocumented immigrants aren’t perfect substitutes, because immigrants often accept extremely low wages, which means removing them increases labour costs for firms, leading to lower hiring rates AND lower salaries for locals.

Second, undocumented immigrants, like everyone else, buy goods and services, so removing them naturally causes broader economic contraction.

One could say the “patriot” community is targeting illegal immigrants specifically (they’re not). But even if we go with that, the thing is that the occupations that are common among undocumented workers like construction labourers and cooks, are essential to keeping businesses operating.
So, when construction companies lose labourers, they also reduce the number of site managers they hire, and when restaurants lose cooks and waiters, they can’t stay open to employ suppliers, who are more likely to be born locally.

The only solution is for the masses to organise themselves to force their government to radically overhaul the economic system to build a better future for their children.

But, of course, humans are emotional beings, and immigration is an emotive issue and like babies, the people want what they want.

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

Arsenal: 2025/26 Premier League champions.

[Khandani Msibi @KhandaniM]

Poor Afrikaner problem was not solved by the private sector, but by building SOE’s. poor black problem will not be solved by privatising SOE’s but by strengthening existing ones and building new ones.