Daniel Aporo

[NneChukwu! @Okeke_Uz]

Dear Husband,

A woman does not decide to be your wife and choose to be faithful because you are Mr. Perfect. She is faithful because she is a woman of character.

She chooses you every day because she honours her vows, even on the days you are difficult to love. She protects your home because that is the kind of woman she decided to become, it's not because you have never given her reasons to do otherwise.

But don't mistake her character for a reason to become careless.

Don't assume that because she is not the type to cheat, she no longer needs your affection and don't believe that because she stays, she no longer needs to be pursued.

A woman can remain loyal while slowly withdrawing her heart.

Nature does not tolerate empty spaces. If you stop investing in your marriage, she may not seek another man, as a lot of people are quick to think, but she will find somewhere else to pour herself. She may bury herself in work, lose herself in motherhood, devote herself to church or build a life where you are no longer at the centre of her joy.

One day, you may wake up to realise that she is still your wife, but no longer your closest companion.

Don't let it get that far. It doesn't have to.

Listen when she speaks, especially when her words make you uncomfortable. Notice the sacrifices she no longer mentions. Thank her for the things that have become so normal you barely see them anymore.

Hold her hand for no reason. Laugh with her. Pray with her. Date her long after the wedding. Make memories she will still smile about twenty years from now.

Become the safest place she knows.

A loyal wife is one of God's greatest gifts to a man, but even the strongest marriages do not thrive on loyalty alone.

Strong marriages thrive on intentional love, mutual honour, daily kindness and the decision to keep choosing each other every single day.

Meet her loyalty with your own.

Meet her commitment with presence.

Meet her love with firm leadership that serves, not one that controls.

Do that consistently, and your marriage will become a place where two imperfect people make each other feel secure in a world that offers very little certainty.

Something many people spend a lifetime searching for.

Have an amazing Sunday.

[Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3]

100 Years After the Rand Rebellion, South Africa Still Wages War on Migrants
In recent months, as years-long xenophobic and Afrophobic attacks on African migrants in South Africa rose to new levels under the familiar cry that they were “taking away our jobs”, nearly 60,000 people have been expelled, fled in fear, or been repartriated by their governments. My modest knowledge of the country’s past kept nudging me: this felt eerily familiar.
I dug and found the echo in a century‑old episode that offers a striking, paradoxical mirror to today’s violence; the 1922 Rand Revolt.
On the surface, an armed uprising by white mineworkers 100 years ago seems far removed from post‑1994 anti‑immigrant violence. But the economic mechanics, social frustrations and ideological contradictions behind both moments align in an unusually direct way.
In early 1922, after a fall in world gold prices, mine owners (the Chamber of Mines) sought to cut labour costs by replacing higher‑paid white workers with cheaper, semi‑skilled Black African migrant labour. Tens of thousands of white miners struck, seized weapons and fought government troops.
An infamous banner in the streets of Johannesburg encapsulated the paradox: “Workers of the world, unite and fight for a white South Africa!” This slogan combined traditional socialist internationalism (“Workers of the world, unite”) with reactionary exclusion (“…for a white South Africa”).
Rather than aiming their rage sat the mining bosses, many white workers turned their violence on Black migrants, killing dozens and demanding that “outsiders” be barred from formal work to safeguard local livelihoods.
Racial identities and political contexts have shifted since then, but the structural engine is nearly identical. In 1922, local workers assumed a fixed number of jobs; any work for a migrant was seen as a job stolen from a local. Modern anti‑immigrant campaigns, from street movements to organised actions like Operation Dudula, rest on the same premise: viewing African immigrants as competitors taking scarce jobs and housing, rather than recognising broader macroeconomic factors.
The Rand Revolt established a pattern in South African history where economic entitlement is tied to national or group identity. In 1922, it was white workers demanding protected status over non-white migrants; today, it manifests as native(mostly black) citizens asserting priority over non-citizens from nations like Zimbabwe, Mozambique, or Malawi.
The Rand Revolt showed, as today’s xenophobic attacks do, that when economic anxiety peaks, working-class solidarity often fractures along lines of nativity, converting legitimate economic frustration into violent exclusion.

[Daniel Aporo @dannydadoc]

@UgPatriot1 @bintumich @TimKalyegira @That_Nkurunziza That makes sense, that could be probably what he meant. Thanks

[Daniel Aporo @dannydadoc]

@DrOribaDan 😀😀😀

[Daniel Aporo @dannydadoc]

@bintumich @TimKalyegira @That_Nkurunziza Bro I don't think twitter/ X is 25 yrs yet...

[Daniel Aporo @dannydadoc]

@sharonalinda3 Would it make any difference or feel any better if it was secondary school kids, university students or full grown adults who perished in the accident ??? You ignore the major factors behind the accident...

[Robert Kalyesubula,MD, FISN(USA), PhD-FRCP(London) @rkalyes1]

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[Daniel Aporo @dannydadoc]

@lifeforcer @JasperQuartz12k No, the accident happened in the dark, around 4 am. Driver probably saw the parked lorry too late

[Muhindo Maka @PenGuerrilla]

Here is the excerpt from my poem titled, HE WAS NOT BORN BROKEN.

“...
And when a man stands
at the edge of everything,
when survival and moral principle
face each other across a dark street,
and survival says:
I have children. I have hunger.
I have a landlord who will not wait
and a city that will not hire me
and a dream I have been shown
but never once handed,
what does moral principle say back?
O, moral principle is a luxury —
like unhurried mornings and unthreatened sleep.
It flourishes in sufficiency.
It is easy to be principled
when the job pays what the family needs.
It is easy to be law-abiding
when the law was written with you in mind,
when the law knows your name
and means it kindly.
But the man who gambled everything
on one desperate night —
he is not a monster.
He is a human being
who ran out of options
before he ran out of hunger.
He chose to bear the consequences —
yes, he knew, and still he chose —
because the consequences of doing nothing
were already unbearable,
... ”

[Daniel Aporo @dannydadoc]

@OkelloEmar13888 @Mwijukyeivan @KagutaMuseveni 😀😀

[Daniel Aporo @dannydadoc]

@GabrielBuule May she RIP. Condolences

[Daniel Aporo @dannydadoc]

@OGWALTK That's great to know. But how do you explain the earlier directive to get a court order, then all of a sudden...reversal ? Seems dubious to me...those people surely know what they are doing.

[Mark Kaplan @markkaplan20]

I want to tell you about a two-time Nobel Prize winner who figured out why humans get heart disease and almost every other animal does not.

His name was Linus Pauling. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962. He is the only person in history to win two unshared Nobel Prizes.

In 1989 he published something that should have changed cardiology forever.

He called it the Unified Theory of Human Cardiovascular Disease.

Nobody listened.

[Robert Kalyesubula,MD, FISN(USA), PhD-FRCP(London) @rkalyes1]

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🗣️Instead, BMI should be combined with measures of excess body fat and evidence of obesity-related health impairment.
@gingo_stephen https://t.co/LYIbfgnVfi

[Felix Kitaka @TheMutambuze]

My son, essential workers aren't the best paid.

Society will clap for the essential man, but it will not pay him. It only pays the rare man.

Look at the shop fridge. Water is essential for human survival, yet it is the cheapest bottle behind the glass. Soda is not essential for survival, but costs three times as much.

The market does not reward what is important. It rewards what is scarce. If a thousand other men can do what you do, you will always be paid like water.

Be blessed.

[Rukh-Shana Kitaka @RukhShana]

If you must reflect on anything online today it should be this post from @TheMutambuze’. Having worked for decades, I wish I knew what he shared early in my career 😔.

That said it is never too late to catch up. So here goes:

1. First, you must create value ( what skill set do you have that is essential / can solve a problem.?) Who else has the same skill and what makes you different?

2. Second, if no one knows about it then the first is redundant. So communicate the value boldly & unapologetically but humbly 🙏 ofcourse.

3. Third, when you get a chance you better deliver as expected otherwise you lose credibility & word spreads pretty fast. Once you lose the credibility you may have to work doubly hard to earn it.

4. Last but not least, make sure you negotiate well and get paid what you are worth. If you bake the best pie, there is nothing sadder than eating crumbs. Many of us do not get our pies worth because we do not know how to negotiate. (This here is a special skill I am still perfecting from @TheMutambuze.)

[Felix Kitaka @TheMutambuze]

My son, a salary is a rented servant. It works for you today, but it answers to another man.

While it is still showing up to your house, do not get lazy. Put it to work. Use it to buy servants that belong to you.

When its master calls it home, you should be able to wave it goodbye, not beg it to stay.

Be blessed.

[Snr. Cde. Robert Kabushenga @rkabushenga]

Revenue is Vanity. Profit is Sanity. Cash is Reality. Just read that off the WhatsApp profile of an Indian businessman I just met🤣