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.
This address by President Cyril Ramaphosa is making me very angry 😡. Why can’t he implement laws that prevent illegal immigration like Tanzania❓Our only hope as South Africans is to go ALL out and March on the 30th of JUNE ✊🏾and to VOTE out this indecisive government.
Whoever is advising the President is doing him a very HUGE disservice ‼️
The President needs to go back to the drawing board and understand how most of the things he is suggesting won’t even work! He needs to practically take time and go to home affairs, BMA, the border, refugee centres etc and understand the problem before he can even try and provide solutions. The President needs to take time and UNDERSTAND the problem or he will always fall short.
I’m disappointed that he continues to think this is a political and tribal issue…
So let’s get this straight Minister.
Thousands of foreign nationals are appearing in our courts, but when Parliament asks how many were granted bail and then disappeared, the answer is: "We don't keep that information."
When asked how many are in the country legally versus illegally: "We don't know that either."
If the @DOJCD_ZA cannot track foreign nationals who enter the criminal justice system, then who exactly is keeping score?
#ATMInParliament
The south African government has collided with the globalists to undermine and delude native South Africans, South Africans have all the education required to drive this country forward but have been invaded by cheap labour from failed states.
First, Ghana has been pursuing resource nationalism and indigenisation policies for years now, long before any recent xenophobia spike in South Africa and Engineers & Planners, the beneficiary company, has prior political connections in Ghana that predate this episode.
The idea of a “tragic own goal by xenophobes” is a bit off base considering that *if* Ghana is acting in retaliation, the harm will fall on Gold Fields shareholders, not on any xenophobic groups in South Africa.
Then saying America is “publicly cheering on Ghana and Nigeria” but then not holding those countries accountable for *their* role in carrying out imperial bidding is again, off. Calling for “an adult in the room” to resolve the situation offers no actionable analysis. Why is Ghana not adulting in the room instead of lashing out? They’re the ones with the grievance, and as you note that the SA state is watching and doing nothing. So, what are the Ghanaians and Nigerians doing outside being water carriers for the Empire, as you suggest?
Basically, you are invoking American influence and then you decline to examine what it means for those two countries’ accountability. It’s almost as if this is not a genuine argument.
Then there’s old the trope of framing South Africans as welfare recipients. Typical continental disrespect and disdain for South Africans. No surprises there.
This rhetoric is common in a pan-Africanist commentary directed at South Africa, treating Black South Africans as either ungrateful or ignorant, while extending more generosity of interpretation to every other party on the continent.
Somehow you lead with an economic argument about corporate profits and diplomatic relations, and yet for some reason ordinary South Africans as uneducated grant recipients take centre stage as if that’s who’s leading anti-immigrant sentiment in the country. But, then again, that’s that typical continental condescension.