Thando isn't Palestine being stolen and Palestinians killed by the people they welcomed in their country? Ukhumbule ukuba ngabantu bokufika aba what are the chances we won't end up like Palestine again ? We've already had that happen, would you like it to repeat itself?
Something didn't sit well with me listening to van Wyk giving instructions to Mkhwanazi everytime he has paid him. There's a conversation we need to have one day as Black people, re le lelapa, siwumndeni. Because yho haikhona guys! 😭
He paid for his honeymoon in Cape Town and told him to enjoy himself and drink lots of wine, but then he needed him to sort out the blue lights for his business partner "who's paying us", because he was pulled over by the plolice I guess, and was uncomfortable. His tone, you can hear he's instructing his "little person". And this was the tone even when he was showing him those stacks of cash, and telling him he knows he needs money for Christmas shopping. It reminded me of what Angelo Agrizzi said during the Zondo Commission about leaders receiving chicken braaipacks and bottles of whiskey every Christmas from Bosasa. We ended up with a Corolla next to the airport in an accident without blood, and someone was said to have died. Today we are having panic attacks. We must have some Biko inspired kind of sessions about what went wrong with us, with the minds of our leaders, our people.
This is just a rant. I'm very disturbed.
#MadlangaCommission
Let me educate you not with anger, but with truth. You assume South Africans lack exposure. You assume we believe other African countries are poor and undeveloped. That is not the case. We know the reality. We know Nigeria has oil. We know Ghana has gold. We know Kenya has tech. We know Botswana has diamonds. We know Zambia has copper. We know Zimbabwe has platinum and lithium. We know the DRC sits on $24 trillion in minerals. We know Africa is rich.
But here is what you do not understand, wealth beneath the ground does not translate to prosperity above it. You can have all the minerals in the world but if your leaders steal, your constitutions hostile towards humans rights, if your institutions are corrupt, if your people are divided by tribe, if your healthcare collapses, if your schools crumble, if your youth flee then you are poor. Not in resources. In governance. In accountability. In dignity.
We do not look down on Africa. We look at the mirror Africa refuses to face. We see our own flaws corruption, unemployment, crime and we fight them. We protest. We vote. We demand better. That is what makes us different. We do not run. We stay. We build. We hold our leaders accountable, even when it hurts.
You say we lack exposure. But we see you. We see your leaders flying overseas to get treated, some in our country to get medical treatment, while your children starve. We see your ports exporting raw minerals while your people have no jobs. We are not blind. We are not ignorant. We are honest.
The difference between South Africa and many other African countries is not wealth. It is the willingness to confront failure. We own ours. You run from yours. That is not a lack of exposure. That is a lack of accountability. And until you fix that, no mineral, no resource, no tweet will save you. Go home. Fix your house. Then talk to us about exposure.