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[Mandulo @KhutsoMandulo]

Chommie, announce him already 🙌🏽🇿🇦❤️ @UnionStGilloise

[Mandulo @KhutsoMandulo]

What position does Ronwen play? 🤔 #RSACAN

[Mandulo @KhutsoMandulo]

#RSAvsCAN these back passes are not a pleasure to watch. 👎🏽

[Mandulo @KhutsoMandulo]

Heyi nina, we won again?!? 🇿🇦😩

[Africa Facts Zone @AfricaFactsZone]

South Africa's Akani Simbine has won the Men's 100m race at the FBK Games in The Netherlands with a time of 10.08 seconds.

[Mandulo @KhutsoMandulo]

@THEOKINGB Asap!!

[Mandulo @KhutsoMandulo]

I need Hugo to get on with it #BafanaMexico #FIFAWORLD26

[Mandulo @KhutsoMandulo]

Nah that second red card is total ambush, doesn’t make sense #BafanaMexico

[Mandulo @KhutsoMandulo]

@weloveghana042 I wonder if the Mexican government knows that they are not leaving…they will be fighting for territories 10 years later.

[Mandulo @KhutsoMandulo]

Brian Baloyi o kae?? Hans Vonk o kae?? Morten Josephs o kae?? Mandela yena?? Thusang #BafanaMexico

[Mandulo @KhutsoMandulo]

Sicela nilwe bandla @BafanaBafana

[Mandulo @KhutsoMandulo]

@adwoah_tricia See how we’re all worried about that baby getting a bite 😅😅

[Mandulo @KhutsoMandulo]

Thank You PSG! 🏆

[Mandulo @KhutsoMandulo]

We’re just chilled. Probably one of the biggest concerns we should as a country today…but knowing us, we’re chilled. 🙂‍↔️

[Newzroom Afrika @Newzroom405]

[BREAKING NEWS] Woolworths confirms explosion devices detonated at Menlyn Park, Pretoria, and Preller Square, Bloemfontein. #Newzroom405

[Tebogo Khaas @tebogokhaas]

IT’S NOT XENOPHOBIA, IT’S NO LEADERSHIP — A MOZAMBICAN PERSPECTIVE

_By Solomon Mondlane

Swati Newsweek 08 May, 2026

I am writing as a Mozambican who has lived, studied, and worked in three countries: Mozambique, Swaziland, and South Africa. I did both my primary and secondary education in Swaziland as a foreigner from Mozambique. Because of that lived experience, I reject the easy label that South Africans are xenophobic.

_When leadership is absent, people step in — and it turns chaotic_
What we see in South Africa today is not xenophobia. It is what happens in any country when there is a vacuum of leadership. When the state fails to secure borders, regulate immigration, police crime, and communicate clearly, ordinary citizens step in to “solve” the problem themselves. The result is almost always disorder, violence, and scapegoating. That is failed governance, not national hatred.

_If South Africa is xenophobic, then the whole of Africa is_
I know this because I lived it in Swaziland as a young Mozambican. We were subjected to ugly name-calling. Once every month, law enforcement targeted undocumented Mozambicans for harassment. People were forcefully removed from their rented apartments, loaded into police trucks like firewood, and deported. Some Mozambicans were recruited to work in sugarcane fields by citizens. At the end of the month, those same employers would call law enforcement. The workers were arrested and deported without their salaries.

Refugee camps were created for both South Africans and Mozambicans, but in separate communities. The state decided who belonged where.

But because Swazis were doing it, nobody called it xenophobia. There were no global headlines about “Swazi xenophobia.” It was treated as immigration enforcement.

_Mozambique is doing the same_
In Mozambique, foreigners coming to visit are subjected to roadblocks — or what President Venâncio Mondlane once described as “slavery toll gates.” Law enforcement demands bribes everywhere a foreigner goes within the country. By the time they arrive at their destination, they are left with nothing.

Those who settle in Mozambique face another trap. They are invited into business partnerships, and when they have invested, they are insulted, falsely accused — mainly as terrorists — by citizens, and then deported. What do you call that? Just because it is done by Mozambicans, is it not xenophobia?

_The double standard_
The difference is not the behavior. The difference is South Africa’s size, media visibility, and economic pull. Millions migrate to South Africa because it works better than home. When tensions flare there, cameras are present. When the same, or worse, happens in smaller states, the world stays silent.

_South Africa needs leadership, not labels_
South Africans need to be engaged by their government. That means the government should start leading from outside the walls of Parliament. Secure the borders. Deal with illegal immigration like other African countries are doing. It is their sovereign right.

In reality, South Africa has been the most lenient country on the continent. It has absorbed millions. What we are witnessing now is not hatred of foreigners. It is the outcome of years without clear policy, without enforcement, and without honest conversations with citizens.

Call it what it is: a lack of leadership. When the state abandons its job, the street takes over. And the street has no training, no law, and no accountability.

If we are honest, the same behavior we condemn in South Africa exists across Africa. The cure is not shaming South Africans. The cure is leadership — in Pretoria, in Maputo, in Mbabane, and across the AU.

_Solomon Mondlane_ is a former Secretary for CAD foreign relations desk and former Mozambique correspondent for Eswatini's largest online newspaper the (Swati Newsweek)_, _Swazi Voice_, and _Swaziland Democratic News_. He is a current member of ANAMOLA and lives in Matola, Mozambique.

[Mandulo @KhutsoMandulo]

“Nkosi Sikelel’ Africa” #BafanaPride

[Mandulo @KhutsoMandulo]

This is very bizarre..

[Public Protector South Africa @PublicProtector]

Media Statement | Constitutional Court Judgment on National Assembly Impeachment Process

#ethics #integrity #accountability #parliament #ConstitutionalCourt

[Mandulo @KhutsoMandulo]

He won’t resign and he won’t be impeached….

[Sentletse 🇿🇦🇷🇺🇵🇸🇱🇧 @Sentletse]

The problem of illegal immigration crisis is not merely a failure of law enforcement, but a damning indictment of widespread institutional corruption and societal hypocrisy.

This is how South Africans themselves actively perpetuate illegal immigration:

•Border officials at ports of entry routinely accept bribes and turn border posts into lucrative turnstiles for undocumented entrants.

•Police officials, who are entrusted with enforcing the law, mirror this venality by pocketing bribes and ignore violations.

•Ordinary South Africans lease properties to illegal immigrants and provide safe havens that embed them deeper into communities.

•Corrupt Home Affairs officials issue fraudulent documents and effectively grant false legitimacy to those who bypass legal channels.

•Home Affairs itself operates without a functional tracking system for visa overstays and allows violations to fester unchecked.

•Home Affairs has no robust mechanisms to bar the re-entry for previously deported individuals and renders deportations a hollow exercise.

•South African women enter into sham marriages with illegal immigrants in order to facilitate permanent residency through deceit.

•A lawless underbelly among South Africans entwines them in criminal enterprises alongside these migrants, from petty hustles to organised syndicates.

The marauding mobs of illiterate tribalists rampaging through the streets and harassing foreign nationals, embody the pinnacle of delusion. They must introspect as their own family members are mostly likely also neck-deep in this rot mentioned above.

What is needed now is introspection and self-correction, not this nonsensical scapegoating we are seeing.

The problem of illegal immigration is a problem created and sustained by Home Affairs, the SAPS and ordinary South Africans themselves.

[Mandulo @KhutsoMandulo]

I need astrologers to unpack these demonstrations against illegal foreigners in South Africa, they are giving me so much anxiety.

[Mandulo @KhutsoMandulo]

South Africa this, black South Africans that…everyday?? How badly do ya’ll want to be South African? Every single day you wake up and sleep “South Africa” 🙂‍↔️

[OgadenSoldier ⛩ @OgadenSoldier]

The Whites in South Africa are out enjoying lunch in Cape Town while the Black South Africans sing for them as entertainment. These are the “jobs” they say foreigners want to take.