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South Africa Is Playing With Fire
Boardrooms are now battlegrounds. Activists are marching into corporate offices across South Africa demanding that "foreigners" pack up and leave.
President Cyril Ramaphosa @CyrilRamaphosa this cannot stand and here's why it's not just wrong, it's dangerously short-sighted. Please ask yourself does South Africa know how deeply it is embedded in the rest of this continent?
β οΈ1. MTN carries hundreds of millions of subscribers across Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda, Rwanda, CΓ΄te d'Ivoire, and beyond a South African company thriving on African soil that isn't its own. @MTNza
β οΈ2. Absa now earns nearly a third of its group profit from outside South Africa β Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, Uganda, Zambia, Tanzania and is still acquiring more African banks as we speak. @Absa
β οΈ3.Standard Bank remains the continent's largest bank by assets, moving trillions of rand through African economies every single year. @StandardBankZA
β οΈ4. MultiChoice/DStv has for decades been the dominant gatekeeper of entertainment and information across dozens of African households.
β οΈ5. Sanlam and Old Mutual manage insurance and pension savings for millions of East and West Africans.
β οΈ6. Nandos, Steers, and Debonairs feed households across Kenya, Nigeria, Zambia, and Uganda.
β οΈ7. Bidvest and Imperial Logistics run supply chains that keep goods moving through multiple African economies.
β 8. οΈThen there's tourism an industry South Africa depends on heavily, and where the hypocrisy cuts sharpest. Hospitality groups like Tsogo Sun, City Lodge, and Sun International have expanded into Zambia, Nigeria, and beyond. South African Airways, Airlink, and a web of SA-based travel companies have spent decades marketing Cape Town, Kruger, and the Garden Route to the rest of the continent and Africans have answered in huge numbers. Kenyans, Nigerians, Ghanaians, and others fill Sandton hotels, Table Mountain cable cars, and Kruger safari lodges every year, injecting real foreign currency into the South African economy.
So which is it? Do you want African wallets in your tills and African bodies in your hotel beds, but not African faces in your boardrooms?
Now imagine just for a moment Nigeria, Kenya, Zambia, or Ghana adopting the same logic. Boardrooms in Lagos or Nairobi staging walk-ins demanding MTN executives leave, Absa hand back its banking licenses, or Kenyan immigration quietly discouraging South African tourists from checking into Mombasa or Diani hotels. The fallout for South Africa would be instant and brutal and tourism, banking, and telecoms would be the first casualties, not the last.
This is the essence of glass houses and stones. You cannot build a continental empire in banking, telecoms, insurance, and tourism, and then slam the door on that same continent's citizens the moment it's convenient at home. It's worth remembering South Africa's most celebrated exports thrive precisely because other nations didn't gatekeep opportunity by passport.
Trevor Noah built a global career from a studio in New York. Elon Musk, born in Pretoria, built his fortune in Silicon Valley and Texas. Both benefited from economies that judged them on merit, not nationality. @Trevornoah@elonmusk
If Africa responds to South Africa's boardroom nativism with mirrored nativism, no one wins least of all South Africans working, investing, and building across this continent.
Mr. President, this is a fire worth putting out before it spreads.
As always, I choose to remain an optimist.
Mohammed Hersi
A true African patriot at heart
There is a homelander that abandoned his whole family including 3 womenππ
Such a coward. Zero drop of Somali blood in himππ€£π€£π€£
@maliks_88 angerusha mateke na apige nduru wezi watoroke!πππ
@Dr_Sadist_ke_ She wants to be seen as a saint well.... But facts is her Mombasa team missed something but she's miss perfect she will never allow anyone to ask questions incase of disputed inspections
When you invite a pre purchase inspector to inspect your car and he or she flags some defects and you ignore and buy the car then you are to blame. Donβt cry foul. A professional gave you a professional opinion and you ignored.
We do a very good inspection for you. We indicate all the redflags , make them known to you , dealer baits you with discount offers,you buy the car thinking that red will turn to green after sometime.
You forget this isn't a traffic light. Infact , red turns to fire , you get burnt & then you come here crying pointing fingers at us .
Weeeuh ! Don't bring for us kìnyùrirù!
Anyway, that topic is done and dusted.
Honestly what I have been asking myself how could the inspection team missed this because it's no where in the report and photos she shared in it..... This I discovered myself one month later
This alone would have been a red flag for me to avoid that VW
Fungua showroom yako bro.
These 'Pakistanis' are the same ones who built our railway in 1900 we came intergrated , intermarried tuko hapa forever hatubanduki.
We need to get rid of these PAKISTANIS. This one ainβt an Indian. The same Pakistan guys have choked Mombasa CBD with car showrooms. Warudi Kwao wote ASAP.
SNEAKO says Messi is the Netanyahu of football, Ronaldo is still the GOAT. π³π
βMessi is the Benjamin Netanyahu of football. They rig it. He has the referees on his side. Ronaldo is still the GOAT.β