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[Andile Lungisa @mrlungisa]

A rugby coach who does not take Springboks to finals gets fired by South African Rugby Union.
A cricket coach who does not take the Proteas to the finals gets fired by Cricket South Africa.
A soccer coach who loses against Canada gets celebrated by South Africans. We lack standards.

[Mteto Nyati @mteton]

With some groups predicting violence on the back of the call for illegal immigrants to leave South Africa, I find myself reflecting on a moment from our past that feels eerily familiar.

In 1994, just before our first democratic election, certain voices in our society predicted that black South Africans would riot, loot and seize properties the moment apartheid ended. Some quietly stockpiled food and essentials, bracing for what they feared would be chaos and retribution.

Yet the black majority - together with all South Africans of goodwill - chose a different path. We pursued a negotiated settlement through CODESA. We built the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. We chose justice with mercy rather than vengeance. The world witnessed not an explosion of savagery, but one of the most remarkable peaceful transitions in modern history.

Today, I hear echoes of that same pessimistic script: predictions that black South Africans will inevitably turn violent against illegal immigrants.

But why do we so readily make this giant leap in abstraction?

The organisers of the planned marches have repeatedly emphasised their commitment to peaceful action. More importantly, the overwhelming majority of South Africans - especially black South Africans who endured the full weight of apartheid - have consistently chosen peace, negotiation and nation building over retribution. We are not a radical people. We love this country. We are resilient, welcoming, and deeply invested in its future.

Genuine concerns about illegal immigration are real: the pressures it places on jobs, housing, healthcare and safety in communities already under strain. These challenges deserve honest, effective responses rooted in the rule of law and our constitutional values - not scapegoating or fear mongering.

What they do not deserve is to be used as proof that black South Africans are inherently savage or prone to barbarism. That narrative reveals far more about the assumptions still held by some than it does about who we truly are.

What will it take for us to finally see one another clearly - beyond stereotypes, beyond fear, beyond the easy stories we tell ourselves about each other?

It starts with recognising our shared humanity, our shared love for this land, and our shared responsibility to build a South Africa that works for all who call it home.

We are stronger together. 🇿🇦
#ProudlySA #StrongerTogether #Ubuntu

[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

South Africa needs to grow some balls and fix this.

No serious country allows mini countries inside it.

[Proletariat_Lu @sirlu]

@FabrizioRomano Come on, what kind of a question is this? South Africa 🇿🇦, obviously 🙄

[Frank ⭐⭐👆 @Thee3nthusiasts]

We were never losing that game. This game was won in the tunnel👏 What a song 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦

[Tinashe @baba_nyenyedzi]

SA’s illegal immigration crisis is partly an economic policy failure and partly strategic misdirection by its corporates. 25 years ago, SA was awash with capital. Instead of investing into Africa, much of that capital went further afield into Europe. African risk was higher, yes, but deeper investment would have created opportunity across the region and somewhat reduced migration pressure. It would also have given Pretoria more political will to push reform in neighbouring countries.

What do you think?

[Gumede @Sqini55]

What Julius Malema has built with the EFF is massive. A whole generation of intellectuals, graduates & thinkers rocking red berets with pride. No other leader in South Africa is leading at this level at his age

[Dr. Gumani Tshimomola @TshimomolaGK]

We have to conclude that this is one of the key reasons why @Treasury_RSA does not support the @EFFSouthAfrica Insourcing Bill.

How does North West spend more than R400 million on consultants, while the Western Cape spends only R42 million?

Municipalities are spending R1.6 billion on consultants, yet a department of government openly defies the @PresidencyZA. National Treasury is effectively saying it disagrees with President @CyrilRamaphosa on insourcing and the urgent need to build internal state capacity.

[Gen Jean-Jacques Dessalines @MxolisiBob]

ANC is not capable of governing South Africa, the British and Boers created a system which the ANC has never developed any counter mechanism to dismantle it hence they are now employing apartheid tactics.

They cannot build anything and always begging for a seat at the White man's table and call it "transformation"

For over 100 years these idiots did not even develop a concept of building a simple settlement where Natives can thrive

[Msunu ka Johann Rupert @ZizinjaAbelungu]

"My name is Sihle Lonzi, a Member of Parliament, deployed by the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF)"

🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[AB de Villiers @ABdeVilliers17]

Big win for Bafana Bafana last night to get through to the Round of 32! ⚽️ 🇿🇦

South Africa are now 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, as my friends at FanCode told me this morning. 🥳

[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

South Africa has a critical shortage of STEM graduates. Apparently. Except South Africa does train excellent engineers.

The problem is that the country’s highly financialised economy steals them and now the best analytical minds are busy optimising credit card default algorithms for wealthy banksters, just like mafia bookkeepers, instead of running megafactories.

[Aldrin Sampear @AldrinSampear]

The Lies

They accuse us of being genocidal
They accuse us of being xenophobic
Our victories are their worst nightmares
And still we sing Nkos’ Sikelela iAfrica
A prayer by RSA for the African continent
We are a loving people
We are a resilient nation
Our glass is always half-full

I’m proud to be South African 🇿🇦

[Bafana Bafana @BafanaBafana]

Bafana Bafana enter the history books as they progress to the next round of the FIFA World Cup for the first time ever thanks to a Thapelo Maseko goal in the 2nd half

#BafanaPride #BafanaBafana #FIFAWorldCup

[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

Helen Zille went to Singapore to learn how that country became so successful. She came back and immediately tweeted that colonialism was not that bad and that South Africa (and Africa broadly) needed to follow Singapore’s example.

Zille didn’t mention that in Singapore, 80% of the population lives in houses built by the government, that the government builds housing so the people can live in them for cheap.

Helen Zille didn’t get much into how in Singapore, the government tells you which ethnicities are going to live next to each other and will mandate you to live next to a different ethnicity so that there’s no religious or ethnic tension.

This is not voluntary. A Chinese person may be forced to live alongside a Malay person and vice versa, regardless of whether he wants to. Quotas determine what proportion of each block must be Chinese, Malay, Indian, etc. It is a social engineering by government decree.
Not sure if Zille has the temerity to force a bunch of White people to go occupy some areas in Mitchell’s Plain.

Another thing that happens in Singapore, which I’m sure Zille cannot wait to implement is that you pay an additional tax for buying a second house, which can be up to 65% taxes if you want to buy more than one house. You can’t buy more than two houses, the government does not allow that. This is designed explicitly to suppress property speculation and concentration of ownership.

And then there’s a whole thing with the tax rate on a car being up to 300% in Singapore. If you applied that tax system in South Africa, a brand new, base spec Volkswagen Polo would cost over R2.57 Million! That’s not a typo or exaggeration.

I don’t know what Zille learned in Singapore, but she hasn’t been pushing for anything like this.

Oh, and there’s also the part where Singapore implemented one of the most comprehensive land expropriation programmes in modern history (https://t.co/dmEAHnb8H2)

Zille’s Democratic Alliance opposes land expropriation, racial quotas, state intervention in housing and property markets, and punitive taxation. Yet Singapore’s success she so greatly admires rests substantially on all of those things, implemented more aggressively than anything the ANC has ever actually done.

[Nandi Madida 🇿🇦 @Nandi_Madida]

The Cradle of human kind! #NoDNAjustRSA 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦 #proudlysouthafrican

[吴鹏 Wu Peng @AmbWuPeng]

Out of respect and diplomatic protocol, we don’t make comments on South Africa’s relations with other countries. Likewise, we oppose envoys of other countries publicly commenting on relations between China and South Africa.

[Redi Tlhabi @RediTlhabi]

Which South Africans? You are a senator who pays attention to random social media commentary? What is the OFFICIAL position of the government of South Africa and what is the status quo? Do you know why SA's Health Minister had downplayed the US's PEPFAR withdrawal ANNOUNCEMENT?

Let me educate you. Motsoaledi is chilled because South Africa funds the majority its HIV/AIDS response itself. 74 -80% comes from SA. 17-21% from PEPFAR and 2-7% from Global Fund and other donors.

Meanwhile, Nigeria's government consistently spends well below the 15% of national budgets that AU countries committed to. You have poorly equipped hospitals and clinics, your system operates intermittently with devastating consequences for the poor. You are a popular case study at many global convenings that I moderate.

You have poor sanitation and have the highest malaria burden in the world. Never mind HIV/AIDS. You had poor federal -state coordination for Covid19. I know. I moderated a WHO-AFRICA Summit on this in 2022, in Togo. Your officials and experts were pouring their hearts out.

So shut your trap. Senator.

[Mbhazima Shilowa @Enghumbhini]

Time to call on manana Khensani to ask the president to extend the period of the Madlanga Commission. Godongwane must find the money from the contingency fund. They must go after every named crook in the criminal justice system.

[Sinawo Thambo @Sinawo_Thambo]

A neutral observer would read this headline and sit up from their Chair.

Let me save you the trouble. It’s bullet points (drawn from Pauli Van Wyk’s failed book), of matters Julius Malema has either been cleared of, acquitted for or is currently appealing.

It’s a long essay expanding on Donald Trump’s frustrated plea known as “Why don’t you arrest this man?”