A fiery speech by South Africa's🇿🇦 EFF leader Julius Malema, over xenophobic attacks targeting foreign nationals.
“You say Zimbabweans take your jobs. Nigerians take your jobs.
You march, close shops and beat up people. Tell us after doing that how many jobs have you created, by beating up these Nigerians, Zimbabweans and Ghanaians?
You beat people because they took your jobs.
You close a shop that hires people. How many have you created after beating and chasing them?
Unskilled men, with no skills, none whatsoever, say somebody took away their jobs. I don't want your votes if you behave like that. Take them away.
Pushing out of school an African child that looks like you, I will never do that. You can take your votes. Make me die with my conscience very clearly.
I will never refuse a pregnant woman of African descent to give birth in the clinics of South Africa. Never!”
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Our founder @AekoOngodia tracing XENO's story from serving one individual to over hundred thousand Ugandans and our expansion into Kenya and Nigeria. It's certainly a milestone, but the journey is far more than that.
As Aéko reflects "before we took our first customer in 2017, there were only 2300 investment accounts in Uganda."
Conditions like that might have led anyone to subscribe to the belief that Africans don't plan or save for their future, when in fact the existing landscape was guilty of exclusivity and lacking the right solutions to meet people at their financial realities.
"Most of our clients never had an investment account, so we had to tailor products that meet the common needs of everyone, starting with an askari and a house help. Having access to such guidance and tools allows one to face not only any future financial oblogations, but life itself with confidence."
It's taken collaboration within our industry; with regulators and many players in the private sector but today, we celebrate not only our growth, we celebrate defying defeatist expectations and transforming the future of Africa🌍
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What a sad evening this is!!! A friend, brother, husband @arch_akp you shall surely be missed. Till we meet again brother. May the happiness you had on earth be received to the next world.
This evening we bade farewell to @qataharraymond in style as you can see. He is off to Oxford. We are grateful to “Senior Management” for doing this. There also those of you who have walked this journey with Raymond, I thank you on his behalf. You know yourselves
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