"They told me Soweto was the ghetto of ghettos."
This Kenyan 🇰🇪 lady says she was stunned when she finally visited Soweto 🇿🇦 and found paved roads, beautiful homes, bustling businesses, tourist hotspots, and a vibrant atmosphere.
Sometimes the biggest culture shock is discovering how wrong the stereotypes were.
I’ve had the pleasure of interacting with several Zimbabwean government officials and senior Zanu-PF members and they have an incredible level of delusion about the ‘success’ of their country which is not shared by many ordinary Zimbabweans who left their homes to come here.
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.
Hello Mzansi, we made it! 🇿🇦
For the first time in history, South Africans can code in their own language.
Introducing CMT-SALanguages — Python in all 11 official SA languages.
isiZulu · isiXhosa · Afrikaans · Sesotho · Setswana · Sepedi · siSwati · isiNdebele ·
Tshivenda · Xitsonga
Read all functions, keywords etc here:👇🏽
https://t.co/fdzmQRxQta
#YouthDay #June16
Ngizwe Mchunu saying goodbye 👋 to Malawian illegal foreigners that are being repatriated in Durban
Telling them to go fix and fight for their country, so that will come visit each other peacefully.
The spirit of Ubuntu, we don't hate African brothers, we hate the behavior and we fighting our systems #Abahambe