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𝒶 𝒷𝓊𝑔 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓂𝑜𝓇𝓅𝒽𝑒𝒹 𝒾𝓃𝓉𝑜 𝒶 𝒻𝑒𝒶𝓉𝓊𝓇𝑒. |~ @ManUtd

[¡n @ngonie_debug]

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[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

I remember reporting almost two weeks ago about Zimbabweans camped outside the Zimbabwean Consulate in Cape Town. What I do not understand is this: these people have made it clear that they want to return home. We all know they did not plan for these circumstances. They have been stripped of their livelihoods and, in many cases, no longer have the financial means to get back to Zimbabwe.

What stops the President from instructing the Minister of Finance and the relevant ministries to organise buses to transport our people from Cape Town back home?
What stops the government from allowing them to cross the border with their personal goods and belongings without charging customs duty, given that this is clearly a humanitarian crisis?

This is not a complicated policy issue. It is a basic act of leadership and compassion.

What I struggle to understand about the Zimbabwean government is that you see men in expensive suits and women in elegant dresses, yet they fail to think in such simple, practical terms.
At times like these, a government should be seen doing what governments are meant to do, protecting and assisting its citizens.

South African media have reported on the plight of these Zimbabweans almost every day. The situation is neither hidden nor unknown. Yet there has been no meaningful humanitarian response from Harare.

The government and its supporters will no doubt come up with all sorts of excuses. But this really is straightforward. Send buses. Bring your people home. Waive customs duties on their personal belongings. They have been forced into this situation by the climate of xenophobia and Afrophobia they have experienced in South Africa.

A government’s responsibility is not to make excuses. It is to act.

[¡n @ngonie_debug]

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[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

If you really want to know a politician’s real character, test him when there is a pending election. Floyd’s argument is a big disappointment because he was characterised to be a great intellectual. Organic intellectuals are not opportunistic.
The problem with his argument is that it is built on a false and silly comparison.

The number of South Africans who went into exile is not the relevant issue in Thabo Mbeki’s point. The relevant issue is that African countries, including Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Tanzania, Mozambique, Angola and others, provided sanctuary, training camps, diplomatic support and, in many cases, paid a heavy price for supporting the anti-apartheid struggle.

Gratitude is therefore not measured by the number of people who crossed borders. It is measured by the solidarity shown during a difficult period in history. Any average intellectual would know this, and not argue with it, unless they are mentally bankrupt.

Floyd is conflating two separate issues. One can acknowledge the historical support that South Africa received from other African nations while also arguing for the enforcement of immigration laws, the two are not mutually exclusive. Respecting history does not require a country to abandon border controls.

The figure that he mentioned of three million “undocumented” immigrants is frequently thrown around opportunistically in political debates, yet estimates of undocumented migration are often contested and vary widely depending on the source. Serious policy discussions should be based on evidence rather than political slogans and cheap political rhetoric.

Most importantly, gratitude is not a transaction, never was, never will be. When African countries supported South African liberation movements, they were supporting the fight against apartheid because it was morally right, not because they expected a permanent immigration arrangement decades later.

Likewise, modern immigration policy should be determined by current realities, economic needs and the rule of law, not by historical score-settling, so introducing a silly argument of 60k versus 3 million people is cheap politicking.

The weakness of Floyd’s argument is that he presents a choice between gratitude and immigration control when, in reality, a mature society can practise both at the same time. His take is disappointingly shallow, opportunistic and very cheap! Mbeki’s point was never meant to be transactional. It was one of many points made in a broader debate and was never intended to suggest that South Africa should turn a blind eye to illegal immigration because of what other African countries did during the liberation struggle.

His argument was about historical memory, solidarity and gratitude, not about abandoning the rule of law.
The mistake is to reduce a nuanced historical argument into a simplistic transactional exchange that was never being proposed in the first place.

[¡n @ngonie_debug]

@Shadaya_Knight Dude that is someone’s mother. Chill.

[CooperBaggs 💰🍞 @edgaralandough]

According to Feng Shui, the mess in your home isn't random.

It's a reflection of where energy may be stuck in your life.

Bedroom clutter =

[arthur fleck @brunfocused]

2nd year uni this girl left me for an older guy, I tried to get closure. Her friends sat me down to explain how because we were the same age it wouldn’t work she should be with someone older, more established(💵) 👍🏾 now I’m stable, internet says I should date people my age?? 😂

[Thuthukile Zuma @Thuthu_Zuma]

No African is illegal in Africa. If you believe that an African can be illegal in Africa then you are not a revolutionary. We must reject the notion of an illegal foreigner. Africans can be undocumented but they cannot be illegal.

[Kashyap Sriram @kashyap286]

Firstly, Ethiopia is under US sanctions while Vietnam is not. And speaking of former French colonies, Haiti was the first to get independence (1804) and is still one of the poorest countries in the world because of the debt they had to take on to gain independence (it took them until 1947 to fully repay it!). Whereas, New Caledonia is still a French colony and is neither rich nor poor.

"If colonialism were the answer to why Africa is poor..."

This line completely ignores the European powers' (and US) post-colonial control over Africa. Patrice Lumumba, the first democratically elected leader of the DRC, was tortured and killed by Belgium and the US for being a nationalist. His body was dissolved in acid so he wouldn't become a martyr. His legacy is largely unknown even within the continent. Several other such "lessons" were meted out. Google Thomas Sankara (Burkina Faso) and Sylvanus Olympio (Togo).

Once you set the example, you gain obedience. The VietCong, on the other hand, didn't surrender even though 3 million Vietnamese died during the war, and several thousand more continue to die to this day (!) from Agent Orange exposure.

As for former French colonies in Africa, France still controls their currency and holds their central bank reserves in France. As Rothschild purportedly said, "permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws."

Third, the borders in Africa were drawn in such a way that conflict was inevitable. At the Berlin Conference in 1884-85, the European powers simply carved up the continent by drawing straight line borders. African leaders were conspicuous only by their absence at this historic event which shaped the next century. This is why Cameroon, a French-speaking country, has a minority English-speaking territory, ensuring it remains destabilized. Likewise for West Asia/the Middle East, where the Sykes-Picot legacy lives on.

@magattew conflates formal colonial rule with colonial control. Vietnam managed to fully kick out both France and the US, reunified the North and the South, and kept its sovereignty. All African leaders who attempted the same have been systematically eliminated (see Muammar Gaddafi, Libya's divisive leader, for a recent example), ensuring Africa forever bears the open wounds of its colonial legacy.

But Ms. Wade is right on one thing: Vietnam owes its prosperity to overcoming colonial rule. Maybe Africa can become prosperous if Africans do the same.

[Rocktor, PhD @Mavumavu91]

This comment is 100% AI generated.

It’s embarrassing that you didn’t even bother engaging it before you posted. You think someone laying out their positionality before they layout their research framework is problematic. I have junior undergrads with more critical thinking.

[Mbuyiseni Ndlozi @MbuyiseniNdlozi]

For the sake of your children, who each morning must wake up and go to school, stop insulting education.

Somehow you have grown accustomed to insulting education as a way to make your arguments. Very tragic culture I must say!

There is no pride in being an ignorant people!

You can perfectly disagree with anyone without insulting education.

Why would you want to breed an education hating nation?

Unless of course, you are working with those who have benefited for centuries out of keeping Africans ignorant!

#MakingEducationFashionable

[CigarBaba @CigarBaba777]

Throwback of Jewish Israeli-Canadian Rapper Drake discussing his deep disdain for Black culture amongst his day-one White friends at a Kosher Deli restaurant 👀😳

[Makhadzi @MakhadziSA]

My lovely South African, I would like to clarify that iam not a politian ... and I might not stated my mind in a good manner because of English sometimes is a problem to me .
But iam really sorry for those who were affected by my previous post .

I made my previous post because I was worried about most of the videos we see online , that when you speaking venda mostly they get to doubt that you are a SA citizen .

And what transpired my post was the recent video that my Zulu brother , was asking my Venda brother ID , for me that was sensetive .

You can imagine in your country someone ask you ID because you look certain way and your language is not familiar with others that they know.

As we all looking foward for the 30th i was really worried about others who are working in Gauteng who doesn't know English , but they only know their language which is thivenda .

Because by the videos we see online, it shows that our brother from other tribes are not really familiar with our language, and when we speak mostly from the videos I have watched , is like venda is a foreign language hence the endup asking ID .

My stress is from those who are stl ignorant to be exposed of how we speak us as venda people.

how are going to deal with this whole situation on the 30th ?

We must go around with ids or what cz allready video's online when they attach foreigners there's allways a venda or Tsonga person involved being asked to prove their identity .

Iam so sorry once again to all my people who were offended . We learn everyday . Next time I will keep quiet until I find a good way to approach any situation .

[cj @wsgadIibs]

them fatass fingers built like mozarella sticks

[Lyn🦋 @_ayandamay]

Drake makes music for nggas that sigh until you ask them what’s wrong?

[Purple💜💜 @Luella7335433]

This beef will last to the end of time.

[Jacob B. @JacobB198]

Whole album dedicated to Kendrick 😂 One man shouldn't have that much power over you

[Tau e Tshehadi @D_Molatoli]

I grew up in Thokoza in the East Rand. Katlehong, Thokoza and Vosloorus were called Kathorus. I grew up during the time when violence between the IFP and the ANC erupted. Zulu people aligned to the IFP from the hostel on the main road, Khumalo street, were fighting with Self Defense Units aligned to the ANC based in the township. It is believed the hostel dwellers were sponsored with arms by the apartheid police, and would often be accompanied by Army caspers when they went into the township to attack. They would attack indiscrimately, hacking families with spears and pangas, breaking windows, burning houses etc. Chris Hani and them were involved in providing arms to the SDF's to defend themselves against the apartheid sponsored IFP.

Fortunately for my family, this happened immediately after my father, who was a priest in Thokoza, had just lost my mother and his closest friend, a Taxi owner Ntate Sanie, who was shot in his presence just a month after my mom. The family in the Free State insisted he leaves Gauteng and come back home because it was no longer safe. I was at UCT at the time, and never went back to Thokoza.

Families of friends that I went to High School with were killed, others displaced. It was a dirty war. In Soweto, where my boyfriend then lived in Senaone, it was the same conflict. Zulus from Merafe hostel attacked townships of Phiri, Mapetla, Chiawelo etc.

Kids that were born in the 90's and 2000's do not know what it was like when there were scenes of communities fearful that the Zulus will come and kill anyone who did not speak isiZulu. You are Xhosa, Mosotho, Kendall, Shangaan, anything they came across that didn't speak Zulu would be hacked to death. In KZN it became Zulu against Zulu, with IFP vs ANC, which the boers called "Black on Black violence", knowing very well they were the sponsors of this conflict.

It took a very long time for peace to prevail between these two parties and for communities to heal. Many families remain with scars and trauma from that period. The same way that political killings have continued during election time, which led to the establishment of the PKTT.

I have no problem with Zulu pride. Some of us can speak and write isiZulu fluently, and love the language and culture. What I have anxiety about, it's mobilization of society under the "Hlangana Zulu" banner. The notion that "Zulu people will fix this country" by dealing with foreign nationals because of their supposed bravery. I'm not sure if that is where it will end. However, in the absence of Government leadership and State Intelligence on the foreign nationals crisis, people are resorting to Zulu Hlangana leadership. What can we say.

[A.VICTOR @Lifeof_AG01]

Shoutout to black people who love black people.

[Farida Bemba Nabourema @Farida_N]

Xenophobia is a direct indicator of social decay. In every African country where you see populations turning violently against foreign nationals, what you are actually seeing is a population that is drowning financially, struggling to find work, struggling to eat, watching their living conditions deteriorate with no credible explanation from the people responsible for governing them.

The foreigner becomes the easy explanation and excuse for a failing state.
What makes it particularly revealing is who they target. They never target the foreign corporations extracting resources at below-market prices. Not the foreign financial institutions whose conditionalities have gutted public spending for decades, not the foreign governments whose diplomatic protection keeps predatory local elites in power election after election. Those actors are too distant and too legally armoured, living behind gates in neighbourhoods that the angry and the desperate cannot reach. So they go after the ones they can reach: the street vendor from a neighbouring country, the migrant worker who is every bit as broke and as desperate and as abandoned by power as they are.

The poor man’s oldest and most reliable mistake is to see his enemy in his fellow poor person. It requires a macroscopic reading of how power actually operates to understand that the Malawian vendor and the South African unemployed youth are not each other’s problem. They are both products of the same system of extraction, the same manufactured scarcity, the same political class that needs them fighting each other precisely so they never turn around and face the right direction.

Xenophobia is never a spontaneous eruption of hatred. It is what manufactured poverty looks like when it finally needs somewhere to go.

[¡n @ngonie_debug]

@Lukhanyo_19 @Lukhanyo_19 let us build it. WhatsApp, first, then monthly meet-ups, nothing hectic and scale up if the need is genuine.