PSL footballers took us to the World Cup and took us out of our group into the knockout stage. A league in Africa.
Never let that go unsaid. We are doing something right 👏🏾
BREAKING NEWS:
South Africa become the first country to hold the Rugby World Cup and the ICC World Test Championship whilst qualifying for the Round of 32 of the FIFA World Cup at the same time
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One Malawian illegal immigrant who was wanted for child rape has been found in Durban, during the processing of immigrants before deportation. The South African family whom their child was raped by the illegal immigrant will finally get justice
Top 25 Friendliest Countries in the World 👫
1. 🇿🇦 South Africa
2. 🇬🇷 Greece
3. 🇭🇷 Croatia
4. 🇲🇽 Mexico
5. 🇸🇪 Sweden
6. 🇦🇺 Australia
7. 🇨🇦 Canada
8. 🇩🇪 Germany
9. 🇪🇪 Estonia
10. 🇧🇪 Belgium
11. 🇪🇸 Spain
12. 🇨🇿 Czech Republic
13. 🇮🇹 Italy
14. 🇯🇵 Japan
15. 🇺🇸 United States
16. 🇳🇱 Netherlands
17. 🇵🇹 Portugal
18. 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
19. 🇵🇱 Poland
20. 🇨🇭 Switzerland
21. 🇦🇹 Austria
22. 🇫🇷 France
23. 🇮🇪 Ireland
24. 🇭🇺 Hungary
25. 🇫🇮 Finland
Source: Remitly, as of last updated till 2024.
Africa's Best Universities
1. University of Cape Town 🇿🇦
2. University of Johannesburg 🇿🇦
3. Stellenbosch University 🇿🇦
4. University of Witwatersrand 🇿🇦
5. University of Pretoria 🇿🇦
6. Cairo University 🇪🇬
7. The American University in Cairo 🇪🇬
8. Ain Shams University in Cairo 🇪🇬
9. University of Kwazulu-Natal 🇿🇦
10. Université de Tunis El Manar 🇹🇳
11. Alexandria University 🇪🇬
Egypt Japan University of Science & Technology 🇪🇬
13. University of Ghana 🇬🇭
14. Rhodes University 🇿🇦
15. Addis Ababa University 🇪🇹
Future University in Egypt 🇪🇬
University of South Africa 🇿🇦
18. Al-Azhar University 🇪🇬
Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport 🇪🇬
Assiut University 🇪🇬
Source: QS World University Rankings 2027.
Being South African on Twitter is a fulltime job. The moment you open your eyes, you're already on national duty, defending the country against allegations, stereotypes, & random attacks from people who've never been here. Kubi! 🇿🇦😂
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.
LATEST:
In an about turn, IDAC says Lt.Gen Dumisane and Maj.Gen Nozipho Madondo have NOT been arrested.
IDAC ordered the two Crime Intellegence cops to report to the Brooklyn Police Station in Pretoria this afternoon after claiming they have warrants of arrests. They were told to bring “overnight bags.”
However, IDAC did not come to the station saying they were told by a “senior” not to execute the arrests.
KZN top cop, Lt.Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi also reported to the station after he was told to also report.
He told @eNCA “the war is on.”
@pule_jones
South Africa will eventually have to draw the line somewhere.
If African governments say they don’t have the resources to even repatriate their own citizens, then the real question is: what is their long-term plan for those people once they are back home?
If a state cannot fund transport for a few thousand people today, how does it expect to provide jobs, housing, healthcare, and basic services tomorrow so those same people don’t end up returning to South Africa out of necessity?
South Africa cannot indefinitely absorb the consequences of governance failures elsewhere in the name of ubuntu or regional solidarity. At some point responsibility has to sit where it belongs: with the governments of those countries.
We need to start being honest about how we have normalised bad leadership, incompetence and corruption on the African continent, and how South Africa has had to bear the brunt of poorly governed nations for decades now.
But at some point, South Africa will also have to stop playing the role of enabler.
EFF leader Julius Malema says Africans must not be distracted by internal conflicts such as xenophobia or disputes over spaza shops, but should instead remain united and focus on the bigger struggle of economic liberation through taking control of mines, banks, and other key industries, which he believes is the true path to redress and transformation.