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[History ZAR @HistorySAZAR]

Xhosa woman working the land, Cape Province, c 1940s. Credit: Constance Stuart

[🇵🇸🇦🇲🇱🇧 @fitnfuII]

Kids in Gaza are destroying their kites after learning the iof deliberately bombs them and you lot are on think piece 237

[emilia! MINNIE DAY @ursculptur]

🚨🚨🚨Please try to share information and/or donate about Nepal. There are over 350 dead and over a thousand missing. There are high risks of a second disaster on top of it with a large amount of search and rescue there. 🧵🪡

[Big D Moné @MercedesVarnado]

I hope all of my dreams come true

[Fighter Thola @Miss_Thola]

I am not anti-Zulu. I am not anti-Bapedi. I am not anti-Basotho. I am not anti-VhaVenda. I am not anti-VaTsonga. I am not anti-white. I am pro-African. I stand for equality.

[Dr. Koena Moabelo 🇿🇦 @RealKoenaza]

Please join the “Do Not Litter" movement that has just erupted in South Africa.

May we please be loud with this one as well 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦

[OvoMogoeng @CMogoeng]

I am South African and am against Xenophobia upon black foreign nationals

[Sir Khoi Khoi @sir_khoi]

A MASSAGE TO FELLOW SOUTH AFRICANS FROM YOUR GRAND FATHER SIR KHOI KHOI: Let Us Choose Ubuntu Over Xenophobia

Dumelang, Sanibonani, Molweni, Thobela, Avuxeni, Ndaa, Good day to all South Africans.

We are a nation born from struggle, forged in the fires of apartheid, and united under the promise of a Constitution that says South Africa belongs to all who live in it. That promise was not just for some of us. It was for all of us — Black, Coloured, Indian, White, and for our brothers and sisters from other nations who now call this country home.

1. Remember who we are,
Our history is one of solidarity. When apartheid tried to break us, it was the frontline states — Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Tanzania, Nigeria, and others — who sheltered our leaders, trained uMkhonto we Sizwe, and paid a heavy price for standing with us. To turn on their children today is to forget the hands that fed us when we were hungry for freedom. Ubuntu means “I am because we are.” It cannot stop at the Limpopo or Beitbridge.

2. Face the real causes of our pain,
Unemployment, crime, poor service delivery, and inequality are real and they hurt. But blaming fellow Africans for them is a misdiagnosis. The Competition Commission, Stats SA, and countless studies show that foreign nationals make up less than 5% of the labour force. Many run spaza shops in townships where big retailers won’t go, creating jobs and keeping prices down. Others are doctors in rural clinics, engineers on our mines, and lecturers in our universities. When we burn a shop or attack a neighbour, we don’t create one job we destroy livelihoods, including South African jobs in the supply chains that serve those businesses. Our anger is justified, but our target is wrong. Hold government and corruption accountable, not the person selling tomatoes on the corner.

3. Understand the cost of xenophobia,
Every attack is broadcast across the continent. It costs us trade, tourism, and the respect Madiba earned us. In 2008, 2015, and 2019, the world watched as we hurt ourselves. Nigerian airlines suspended routes. Investors hesitated. South African truck drivers were attacked in retaliation beyond our borders. Xenophobia isolates us on a continent that is trying to integrate through the African Continental Free Trade Area. We cannot lead Africa while we fear Africa.

4. Choose law, not violence,
If someone commits a crime, they must face the law — regardless of nationality. South Africa has police, courts, and Home Affairs for that reason. Mob justice makes us all unsafe, because today it’s a foreign national, tomorrow it’s someone accused of witchcraft, or from the wrong province, or wearing the wrong political shirt. We fought too hard for the rule of law to abandon it in the street.

5. Build, don’t break,
Let’s direct our energy to what works:
- Join community policing forums that include everyone who lives in the area.
- Support local government meetings and demand budgets are spent.
- Mentor young people and help them start businesses instead of resenting others who did.
- Teach our children that a person’s worth is not in their accent or passport.

Our Constitution’s Preamble asks us to “heal the divisions of the past” and “build a society based on democratic values, social justice and fundamental human rights.” Xenophobia tears that healing apart.

To those who are hurting*: Your frustration is seen and it is valid. But your enemy is not the migrant worker. Your enemy is poverty, corruption, and poor leadership.

To those who are afraid: The South Africa you want safe, prosperous, respected is still possible, but we build it together or not at all.
We are not just South Africans. We are Africans. We are human.
Let us choose Ubuntu over fear. Let us choose courage over convenience. Let us choose each other.
Amandla, Maatla, Power to the people who refuse to hate.
Mayibuye i-Afrika.@GovernmentZA
@Julius_S_Malema @CyrilRamaphosa @MbalulaFikile
@helenzille
@MmusiMaimane

[alina @amazingf4wn]

everyone please use your platform to talk abt the trans peoples rights being stripped away in india!! it takes less than a minute to find a tweet that talks about it and rt. use the privilege you have to give a voice to those who need it and stand up for your fellow queer people

[chisu 🥖 @tamaescence]

theyre criminalizing transitioning in india and i dont see anyone outside of some queer indians talking about it. do you hear me, theyre literally taking away the rights to live & transition in india, what the hell is the rest of the world doing. wake up

[Bheyonś Mboweni💕 @sunraysandstuff]

FOR HER. FOR US
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