@davido Haibo. African Union ga e gona? Do we need western governments to preside over our affairs? I understand the sensitivity of elections across Africa, but surely governments like ours 🇿🇦, Botswana etc can assist. Unless I'm out of touch.
Big changes on the cards for salary negotiations in South Africa – BusinessTech https://t.co/wjegKQM9fO
A draft bill to consider commenting on in our masses.
Open Letter to CIC , @Julius_S_Malema ✊🏾🙏
Commander Malema,
Leadership is a heavy coat. The closer you stand to the fire of a people’s hopes, the more you feel the burn. Your sentence, whatever its shape, is part of that weight. Wear it, but do not let it bend your spine. The spirit that brought you here cannot be jailed, adjourned, or silenced. If it dies, it will not be because of a courtroom or a critic. It will be because you let it. Millions of people carry your spirit, they believe in you and their actions have proven to love you.
Remember Thomas Sankara. He was 33 when he took Burkina Faso and renamed not just a country, but its purpose. He told his people to stand upright, to refuse debt that enslaved them, to plant trees and dignity in the same soil. He was murdered at 37. But the idea of Sankara outlived the bullets. Why? Because he understood that a leader’s job is not to be safe. It is to be useful, even when it costs.
Remember Kwame Nkrumah, who faced exile and died far from the Ghana he birthed. Remember Patrice Lumumba, who was given 60 days as prime minister before the world decided he was too dangerous to live. Remember Steve Biko, who wrote that the most potent weapon is the mind of the oppressed, and paid for that sentence with his life at 30. None of them were permitted to finish. Yet all of them are still speaking through us!
Your sentence, then, is not the end of the book. It is a paragraph. The question is whether the next chapter is written by you, or about you.
The weight of a leader will be great. It must be. If it feels light, you are not carrying enough of your people’s burdens. But weight is not the same as defeat. Sankara rode a bicycle to cabinet meetings because he believed leaders should not eat while the people starve. Nyerere retired to a village and taught by example. They carried the weight without letting it crush the spirit. That is the test.
So take stock, not pity. Discipline the anger. Sharpen the vision. Africa does not need another martyr right now. It needs builders who can take a blow, stand, and keep laying brick. Speak for the landless, yes. But also show them the plan for when the land is theirs. Chant in parliament, yes. But also govern in the mind, with numbers, with ethics, with detail. The people will forgive a leader who stumbles. They will not follow a leader who has no road.
This is not flattery. You will be attacked, betrayed, misquoted, and tempted. I can say this because I know! I have sat in a court room and I know the coldness the soul fights. But we do not fight the system with our words alone, we fight with our spirit! Some days the sentence will feel like a noose. On those days, remember: Sankara had four years. Lumumba had two months. Biko never got to govern at all. You are still here. Use the breath.
The spirit must live on!
🙏✊🏾
@akreana_ Literally me. I loved milk soo much and took it after every meal. My family did their best to make it available. I also ate a lot of margarine. Today, I don't drink milk or eat any milk products. I vomit
Do the same with Nigeria. South Africa has no business giving Nigerians a 90 day visitor VISA. They use it to settle illegally in SA & establish all kinds of criminal syndicates. There is no single benefit of having scores of Nigerian men in SA. Withdraw their 90 day VISA🚮🚮
The Department of Home Affairs has withdrawn South Africa’s 90-day visa exemption for Palestinian ordinary passport holders, following investigations that found the provision was being deliberately abused by Israeli-linked actors involved in “voluntary emigration” efforts for Gaza residents. https://t.co/RA7dsPRH3e
#GovZAUpdates @HomeAffairsSA
🛑 BREAKING NEWS:
Witness D at the Madlanga Commission has been shot dead.
He was gunned down
outside his Gauld Street home in Brakpan on the East Rand in full view of his wife and children.
Witness D, testified at the commission in
November.
He claimed that Julius Mkwanazi (deputy EMPD chief) ordered him to dump the body of a suspect in a dam.
Witness D called me on Wednesday requesting an interview on @eNCA
He said he was happy to reveal his identify saying he was probably going to shot over coming days.
He called me shortly after this post on X. He confirmed that he was the one that closed the holes being used by “Zama Zamas.”
In addition....critical SA🇿🇦 exports to the USA remain exempted from the tariffs. Products such as copper, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, lumber articles, certain critical minerals, stainless steel scrap & energy products will NOT be subjected to the 30% tariffs.
URGENT HELP NEEDED! 🙏🏽 My daughter, Thobile, passed away in the USA & I'm struggling to repatriate her remains to SA. Any contribution would bring her home with dignity. Please help me bring my shining star home 🌟💔 https://t.co/zzwf1RV0Nz #BringThobileHome#RepatriationHelp
Hi @MojaLoveTv here is a pitch for a docuseries “Still We Carry the Wounds”. It uncovers untold apartheid atrocities through families still living with the trauma. Like Ufelani it uses reenactments to bring buried stories to life. We can’t heal without truth.