Sizwe Mazibuko

Pan Africanist, Socialist and diehard Sundowns fan

[✭ 🅑🅤🅑🅑🅐 ✭ @BubbatheOG]

Remember those blue eyed devils that Malcolm X routinely spoke about? This is them. 🎯🎯🎯

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

The West really has plans for Africa, especially its resources which they want to loot, but do Africans have plans for themselves?

[Africa Research Desk @MightiJamie]

Who made this 😂😂

[Mamthembu weEFF ❤️ @ayakasiya]

A white man approached by March and march gang to employ South Africans and he refused and said he would rather close the business and he hires on merits,they didn't beat /harm him.

One white man against many members of march and march.

Le ba sabani makgowa?

[Kgoshigadi TT 🇿🇦 @Kgoshigadi_TT]

Poppy Ramatuba is creating content with the suffering of black people.
Was this necessary?

[Kentah Gwanjez @GWANJEZ]

“We’re not outnumbered. We’re out organized.”

[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

In a conversation with Ntsiki Mazwai, Prof Sipho Seepe argues that when Apartheid became unworkable, the ruling class looked for ways to contain the power of the Black majority.

According to Prof Seepe, because Black South Africans held the numbers to dominate a parliamentary democracy, White people pushed for a shift toward a constitutional democracy to oversee and restrict Black power.

Prof Seepe characterises the normalised warning against majoritarianism as a false narrative, and points out the irony that courts themselves operate on majority decisions rather than immediate, unanimous consensus.

To illustrate that judges are not neutral or infallible, he cites the Phala Phala case, noting it took 15 months to yield entirely different legal interpretations.

He also outlines how the decisions and leaders of the Black majority are constantly undermined and audited by external forces, specifically the mainstream media and academics and that post-1994 South Africa failed to thoroughly interrogate and reform core systems, namely the media, the judiciary, and universities, leaving the original structural architecture of control untouched.

[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

South Africa is the most economically unequal country in the world because it was deliberately designed to be so.

While other highly unequal nations arrived there through capitalism or just plain corruption, South Africa arrived there because inequality was the literal law of the land for generations.

Pick a year, any year of South African history and evidence that the natives of the land were to be deliberately kept poor is right there in palin sight.
After all, the Xhosa Frontier Wars broke out in 1779 after decades of systematic land and wealth dispossession.

Even when you look over six decades before the country known as South Africa was formalised, and a century before Apartheid-era townships were codified, the formal policy of setting aside “locations” for Black people had already began.

In 1846, British colonist Theophilus Shepstone was tasked with managing thousands of Natives who were returning to lands they had historically occupied before the British violently invaded the region.

Rather than integrating them, Shepstone established several rural “Native locations” in the least fertile land available to ensure they would be available as cheap labour for farms and colonial industries.

Similarly, in the decades following 1886, when gold was discovered in what is today Gauteng, the entire colony’s immense wealth came from the mining sector powered by cheap, state-controlled electricity and heavily exploited, low-wage migrant labour.

Because this Mineral-Energy Complex built an economic system controlled by an elite few and because the economy was heavily geared toward resource extraction rather than broad-based manufacturing, it never developed the large, stable blue-collar middle class that lifted up countries in Europe, America or East Asia.

You could also skip to 1913, when the South African government decreed that the Black majority, which made up 80% of the population, could legally own just 7% of the land.

This overnight act destroyed Black farming and wiped out generational wealth. So, unlike in most other countries where inequality is a result of capitalism, in South Africa it was a state-enforced intentional destruction of a population’s asset base.

Over a century after the Locations were introduced, the Group Areas Act of 1950 locked Black families into townships and rural homelands, far from economic hubs. Today, transport costs consume 30–40% of a low-income worker’s salary vs. <10% for affluent suburbs, while property values in historically White areas have appreciated exponentially. The physical distance from opportunity is a daily tax on time and money that compounds generational poverty.

You could also zoom in on 1953, when the Bantu Education Act deliberately stripped math, science, and technical training from Black school curricula. The explicit, stated goal of the government at the time was to train Black citizens to be nothing more than manual labourers. Once again, the poor education given to Natives was not an inadvertent side effect of poor planning or execution.

As luck would have it, when 1994 rolled around, Western nations were shifting away from heavy labour industry and toward service economies. South Africa imitated this model and then found itself with an oversupply of blue-collar workers, products of Bantu Education.

Even though Bantu Education was repealed, public schools are still largely funded by local property taxes and since wealthier, historically White, suburbs raise vastly more per child than townships, the quality gap in maths and science persists. A child in Sandton receives 2–3x the per-learner funding of a child in Soweto.

Meanwhile, after 1994, wages for tech, banking, and executive roles skyrocketed, while wages for manual labour stagnated or vanished entirely. It goes without saying that the wage gap expanded rapidly during the very years democracy was meant to close it.

At the same time, during the transition to democracy, political administration was handed to the Native majority, but existing property rights were legally protected, which meant that while the laws became equal overnight, the capital, real estate, stocks, and business ownership stayed exactly where they were.

And because wealth compounds via interest and investments much faster than wages grow, the starting line of the new democracy was so skewed that the markets naturally made the rich richer, regardless of the change in political leadership.

Today, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange’s top 100 companies are still ~87% White-owned in terms of executive control and beneficial equity. Transformation policies, which, by the way were designed by the White elite, have created a small Black elite, but the aggregate wealth distribution remains frozen because ownership concentration drives inequality. After a all, wealth begets wealth via dividends and buybacks, while wages, even well-paid ones, cannot catch up to capital’s compound growth.

Anyway, the point is that South Africa’s historical economic inequality was by design and when we say it continues to be actively maintained to this day, this is not a conspiracy theory. It may seem that way because the design’s final trick makes the outcomes look like “the economy” doing what it does, so the original sin of dispossession fades from view.

[Adémọ́lá. @OgbeniDemola]

Jesus did not die for me. Patrice Lumumba. Thomas Sankara. Steve Biko. Kwame Nkrumah. These are the people that died for me to be free.

[Kim Heller @kimheller3]

🔺🔺The People’s Professor 🔺🔺

👉🏽 Dr Lwazi Lushaba is one of the finest “uncaptured minds” in South Africa

👉🏽 I was so privileged to be on a panel with him on slavery, apartheid and colonialism

💥💥 What a brilliant intellectual and a humble man 💥💥

[Kentah Gwanjez @GWANJEZ]

King Leopold II, hacked off the wrists of Congolese men for failing to bring the quantity of Ivory and rubber he wants per day. Despite this horrible crime, Belgium named streets and built statues to honor him. In theory, each right hand proved a killing. In practice, soldiers sometimes “cheated” by simply cutting off the hand and leaving the victim to live or die. More than a few survivors later said that they had lived through a massacre by acting dead, not moving even when their hands were severed, and waiting till the soldiers left before seeking help. In some instances a soldier could shorten his service term by bringing more hands than the other soldiers, which led to widespread mutilations and dismemberment.

[Adémọ́lá. @OgbeniDemola]

Africans never believed in capitalism. Africans believed in community, in Ubuntu—I am because you are.

[African @ali_naka]

EFF will outlive all of us 🤌🏿

[History ZAR @HistorySAZAR]

"South Africa is a rich industrialised country with a capability of producing her own nuclear bomb. In this country of 22 million people, the lives of the 15 million Black, 2 million Coloureds, and 600 000 Indians, are totally controlled by a White miniority of under 4 million. The Whites alone have the vote, and the Whites alone control the government and the law, industry and the arm forces. From this solid base of supremacy, White South Africans enjoy the highest standard of living in the world."

[ADAM @adamemedia1]

🚨 🇮🇱 THIS IS MASSIVE

An ISRAELI CYBER FIRM just got exposed for running a GLOBAL ELECTION INTERFERENCE OPERATION across five countries, simultaneously.

Read that again.

The moment journalists called BlackCore for comment, the company DELETED ITS ENTIRE INTERNET PRESENCE

This is what a ROGUE STATE does when it can’t win the argument.

[More details in the replies 👇🏼 ]

[Kim Heller @kimheller3]

EFF STATEMENT ON CYRIL RAMAPHOSA'S
URGENT
APPLICATION TO HALT THE IMPEACHMENT PROCESS

“The obvious question South Africans must ask is, what is President Ramaphosa hiding from? If he has nothing to fear, why has he consistently fought every attempt to subject him to constitutional accountability? Instead of welcoming an opportunity to clear his name before the impeachment committee, he has chosen to wage an endless legal battle against the very process designed to establish the truth.
Rather than resign and allow Parliament to perform its constitutional responsibilities without interference, President Ramaphosa has elected to fight the impeachment process at every turn. This is entirely inconsistent with the values of accountability, openness and constitutional governance that he claims to uphold”

For full statement 👉🏽 @EFFSouthAfrica

[NtsikiMazwaiMedia @ntsikimazwai]

LEVELS

[𝐓𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐩𝐡𝐨 𝐋𝐞𝐭𝐥𝐚𝐥𝐨 @MtsheposSA]

The EFF has stood by many South Africans in their legal battles, from the victims of Marikana, Bonginkosi Nkhanyile, Mcebo Dlamin, Fifi Cooper and many others.

Yet, some of those who once benefited from the support we gave them are today spitting in our faces.

[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

FIFA’s statement on Africa’s best referee: “​FIFA is not involved in host country immigration processes, including visa adjudications... a host government ultimately determines who receives a visa and who is admitted into their country”.

[Mr Ayee🔴🟢⚫️🪓🇿🇦🇿🇦 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦💯 @AyeeNdeM]

BREAKING NEWS:

@ferialhaffajee '' EFF’s Julius Malema provided political protection for Feroz Khan, Madlanga Commission investigator reveals''

@Julius_S_Malema ''You are not growing up shem, wa pala. What protection and for what?''

She disappeared without a trace 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Thank you Julius Malema! Fighters Lets continue with our election programmes and leave idiots to be idiots!

Dankoo! CiC