One thing I love about our national anthem is how it exposes the way non-black South Africans have complete disdain for vernac. Like you never bothered learning how to pronounce the words? Damn 😂😂
Anyways, the CIA created this SA vs Africans war btw to delegitimise SA's stance against Israel at the ICC. SA took the bait very well so Uumbwa to them still🙏
Nothing is more fake middle class intellectualism than making an 'agency' argument to cover up foreign governments and right-wing white billionaires using billionaire-owned social media to manipulate black people into fighting each other 🥱
You know, it gets to a point 😭 I feel bad for them. The stadium keeps booing them. Bambi when your child misbehaves, you discipline them in the house; you don’t send them to get beaten by the neighbour 😭😭😭
........ In our local language here, we say; "NYINA AMARA AFA AKWEITSE HO"/ Even when one's intestines are pouring out and he is dying, owner will die while his hands are holding on to them...
Africa must support BAFANA-BAFANA TONIGHT!
This is serious. But, what happened on Arise News this morning reflects what is going on elsewhere.
If social media, for instance, is anything to go by, the anti-South African sentiment building across the continent is reaching alarming levels and must be addressed.
Many Africans appear to be supporting Mexico against South Africa in tonight’s World Cup opener. On the surface it is only football. In reality, it reflects something much deeper.
Sport is often the clearest expression of public sentiment. When Africans find themselves cheering for a non-African nation against an African one, it suggests that the wounds caused by repeated attacks on fellow Africans in South Africa remain raw and deepening.
If anyone doubts this, they should read the reactions to Julius Malema’s calls for Africans to rally behind Bafana Bafana. The comments are an absolute nightmare. Instead of solidarity, there is anger, resentment and painful reminders of xenophobic attacks. The sentiment is: “It’s the job of South Africans to support their team. We won’t steal their jobs.”
That should alarm every Pan-Africanist. This is not just bad for South Africa. It is bad for Africa.
The African Union and regional leaders cannot treat this as a series of isolated incidents. It goes to the heart of Pan-Africanism and the idea that an African should feel at home anywhere in Africa.
A borderless and prosperous Africa cannot be built on resentment, suspicion and Afrophobia. The lesson from tonight, I suspect, is not that Africans are against South Africa. It is that many Africans are deeply hurt.
And, unless that hurt is confronted, the greatest casualty may not be football, but the Pan-African dream itself.
there are pretty standard qualifications i would expect a mid-level employee to have... you are telling me that is the highest our ministers have had since prof suruma?
Again, my Pan-Africanism is economic integration. Free movement of trades.
If your Pan-Africanism isn't economic liberation, count me off! We don't love ourselves enough, and that's absolutely fine, but we can do business and grow together. That's what Europe did. We can do it.
@TimKalyegira To be fair, talking about how the Aryan race isn't responsible for the suffering of black folk would be more interesting for a billionaire before "money". What if he talks about it and awakens a class consciousness.....
Culture wars are safer
people like to frame Donald Trump as some sort of aberration and deviation from the enlightened project of whiteness but that's what it is, that is what whiteness produces, that is what you uphold with your behavior and consent.
We ready talk about white colonization of leftist spaces yet?
A lot of people have finally begun to see Hasan Piker for the fraud he is. But the reality Hasan is merely a symptom of a dangerous disease plaguing leftist spaces and leftist discourse for longer than I can remember.
Acknowledging how problematic Hasan is (finally) is cool, but we need to ask ourselves how the hell the left keeps falling for the “Hasan Pikers” of the world if we’re going to make sure stop looking like Wild E Coyote chasing the roadrunner. Which requires us having a very difficult conversation people have been (imo) purposely ignoring.