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An absolutely scintillating contest at Old Trafford! Edge-of-your-seat drama as #TheProteas secure another 2 points with a vital 6-wicket victory over India 🏏✨
Words hardly do it justice after scenes like these! A phenomenonal display of determination, resilience, and fightback from start to finish. What a performance from #TheProteas! 🇿🇦👏
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When we say foreigners are taking up space in our educational system, we are not saying we hate foreign children. We are saying our system was designed for a specific number of learners budgeted for, staffed for, and resourced for South African children. Every year, the Department of Basic Education plans based on population projections. Classrooms are built, teachers are hired, and textbooks are ordered according to those numbers. But when thousands of undocumented foreign nationals enter the system without being accounted for, that budget is stretched. Overcrowded classrooms. Underpaid teachers. Insufficient resources.
In many provinces, schools in inner cities and border towns are overwhelmed. Foreign nationals some legal, many not enrol their children, and schools cannot turn them away because of constitutional rights. But no additional funding follows. No extra teachers arrive. No new classrooms appear. So South African children lose out. They sit on floors. They share textbooks. They receive less attention. Their future is compromised not because of their own government, but because the government failed to manage borders and allocate resources properly.
We are not saying foreign children should not be educated. We are saying, plan for them. Account for them. Fund for them. Don't let them flood in uncontrolled and then expect our children to bear the cost.
Every country protects its own education system first. Every country ensures its citizens are prioritised. South Africa must do the same. Not from hatred. From duty. From love for our own children.
That is what we mean. That is what we demand. And that is what makes sense.
@innothegnut@Mis_kaaay@pat_mxolisi It’s funny how bothered you are by things that have nothing to do with you South Africans stay living rent-free in your ugly heads
Let us educate those who are blind to see and deaf to hear. You call South Africans sick. You spread rumours that we are diseased. Yet you fight to stay in our country you risk everything to be here. Why would you fight to be in a country full of sick people? Why not go home where it is safer?
Here is the truth you refuse to face. South Africa has the largest antiretroviral programme in the world. We test millions. We treat millions. We have reduced mother-to-child transmission to under 1%. Our people living with HIV are on treatment, become undetectable, and live full, productive lives. We have clinics in every township, mobile units in rural areas, and government-funded campaigns that reach the poorest of the poor.
Now compare that to Nigeria. Over 1.9 million Nigerians are living with HIV, yet only 60% know their status. Treatment coverage is below 50%. In many parts of the country, antiretrovirals are scarce, testing is inaccessible, and stigma is so severe that people die in silence. Ghana? Similar gaps. Zimbabwe? Struggling with supply chains and funding cuts. Kenya? Better, but still far behind South Africa's comprehensive system.
But you will not admit this. You will not celebrate our success. Because admitting South Africa does something better means admitting your own leaders have failed you. Instead, you spread lies. You call us sick. You claim we are diseased. And yet you will not go home because you know that at home, there is no healthcare, no treatment, no hope.
You are hypocrites. You are cowards. You are terrified of your own leaders, so you attack us. You flee from your own governments, so you blame us. Your leaders come get treated in our facilities. We have built a healthcare system that works not perfect, but working. And instead of demanding the same from your own leaders, you run. You hide. You lie.
Stop calling us sick. We are not sick. We are saving lives. And if you are so worried about HIV, go home and demand treatment for your own people. That is where your fight belongs. Not here. Not with us.
@jackson_rem Why are Nigerians like this? There's worse terrors in Nigeria, with kidnapping of women and kids and shocking k*llings happening there and they are more concerned with SAns marching in their streets and telling illegal immigrants to go home. So no one is calling out Boko Haram.
Let me educate you not with anger, but with truth. You assume South Africans lack exposure. You assume we believe other African countries are poor and undeveloped. That is not the case. We know the reality. We know Nigeria has oil. We know Ghana has gold. We know Kenya has tech. We know Botswana has diamonds. We know Zambia has copper. We know Zimbabwe has platinum and lithium. We know the DRC sits on $24 trillion in minerals. We know Africa is rich.
But here is what you do not understand, wealth beneath the ground does not translate to prosperity above it. You can have all the minerals in the world but if your leaders steal, your constitutions hostile towards humans rights, if your institutions are corrupt, if your people are divided by tribe, if your healthcare collapses, if your schools crumble, if your youth flee then you are poor. Not in resources. In governance. In accountability. In dignity.
We do not look down on Africa. We look at the mirror Africa refuses to face. We see our own flaws corruption, unemployment, crime and we fight them. We protest. We vote. We demand better. That is what makes us different. We do not run. We stay. We build. We hold our leaders accountable, even when it hurts.
You say we lack exposure. But we see you. We see your leaders flying overseas to get treated, some in our country to get medical treatment, while your children starve. We see your ports exporting raw minerals while your people have no jobs. We are not blind. We are not ignorant. We are honest.
The difference between South Africa and many other African countries is not wealth. It is the willingness to confront failure. We own ours. You run from yours. That is not a lack of exposure. That is a lack of accountability. And until you fix that, no mineral, no resource, no tweet will save you. Go home. Fix your house. Then talk to us about exposure.