We had 120 Marches across the country on the 30th of June
According to @MbalulaFikile that was a failure 🤣😭😭🇿🇦 I want him to DARE US that in 3months we can’t have DOUBLE that amount of Marches??? Dare us MBALULA🤷🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️
The days of we are not Angry enough are OVER ‼️‼️
Dear @MbalulaFikile
I told you guys that the issue here is not March and March but the fear of Jacob Zuma… Those who are close to Fikile Mbalula please can you tell him that we met with his leadership in Ethekwini when we had our first March they refused to be part of the March, now when March and March has grown to be this big from nothing suddenly he pulls out a picture of us having met with the MK?? Why not pull out a picture when we met with Action SA, IFP, DA, ,Afrika Mayibuye, ATM, Operation Dudula because we have met with ALOT of political parties and leaders, including ANC??
So the issue is having met with MK? How many times have we sent our grievances to the ANC and they Ignore March and March and then decided who they want to meet because they don’t have the surname Zuma? The ANC issued a statement when I was fired and said they welcome me being fired? Now you want to make it seem like this is political? The President of the Country is the President and we only wanted to meet him to address the immigration issue not because we wanted a photo op with him, so if he chooses to not see us that’s not a loss to us really! We organised those marches without the ANC
When we started March and March it was a joke to many of you! You Fikile even went on TV and asked who I am? Now after we organised a nation wide protest you are trying to make it seem as though we were doing things in silence or behind the peoples back to meet certain people? Everyone knows we have met several political parties and we have explained why!!! You failed with labelling us vigilantes, you failed with the tribalism, now you want to keep aligning us with MK so you can prove a point that this is not a genuine organisation? Goodluck with what you are trying to do Bhuti but please be honest when you are addressing issues!
@FaraiMazhindu U don’t know BEE, BEE was mere bribes paid to politicians not to transform the economy. BEE was introduced by white people, legislation came after and it failed to improve it.
@SneKhumaloSA But that's what they do. People forget they once accused JZ of owning a mansion in Dubai without any evidence. All so he and his clout gang can hog the news. Tomorrow they will say that we must unite as Africans. Diabolical!!!
There is this brand of South African political activism that claims to be pan-Africanist and anti-imperialist, but has little problem with invoking Roman-Dutch Law when things get rough.
This is when you will hear phrases like “our laws must be respected”, and you can immediately smell the cognitive dissonance kicking in.
You see, one would expect a self-confessed Pan-Africanist to have internalised the fact that Roman-Dutch Law & English Common Law which dictates contract law, criminal law, property rights, and commercial frameworks is *entirely* of European origin.
Roman-Dutch law arrived as an instrument of colonial governance and land dispossession. The 1652 VOC settlement and everything that followed encoded that law into the management of conquered territory. So, to then invoke it as “our law” as a pan-Africanist requires an extraordinary amount of selective forgetting.
But most importantly, a Pan-Africanist should at all material times be aware that while the 1996 Constitution recognises African Customary Law, this is only applicable to the extent that it doesn’t conflict with European-derived Law. He cannot pretend that “our laws” has anything to do with African Law.
The main issue here is that when a Pan-Africanist defaults to “our laws”, he is appealing to a system that displaced indigenous African legal traditions like lekgotla, indaba, ubuntu-based restorative justice and community-led dispute resolution in favour of individualistic, Western adversarial systems.
If one really thinks about it, ubuntu-based jurisprudence and customary law frameworks could reliably anchor a genuinely pan-Africanist legal vision. So, for any pan-Africanist to reach for Roman-Dutch precedent to make a political argument is a choice signifying poor ideological grounding.
There’s also this delusion that because the South African Constitution was adopted by a Black-majority assembly, then the legal system has been sufficiently baptised and can be passed off as genuinely African.
You often witness this cognitive dissonance the most during discussions about immigration or regional integration. Because as soon as complex, cross-border African issues arise, all that “I am an African before I am a South African” Pan-Africanism talk quickly dissolves into a stew of Westphalian Berlin Conference bureaucracy.
The retreat into “our laws say...” suddenly allows this brand of Pan-Africanist to outsource his ethical dilemma to the State. It allows him to maintain his phony radical posture while fighting to benefit from the exclusionary protections of a European-style nation-state.
It’s hilarious because “I personally believe in African solidarity, but the law is the law” is a sentence that should collapse under its own weight for any serious Pan-Africanist, yet it somehow circulates with surprising durability.
This is because when pan-Africanism is costless in rhetoric, it flows freely. But when it demands something concrete, like who has rights of movement and who can access resources across European-drawn borders, the colonial nation-state framework suddenly becomes a valid pillar of ideology😂
In the end, it’s impossible to advocate for the total liberation of African people while simultaneously deferring to a legal framework designed to enforce colonial property relations and state borders. But the political expediency is too strong, I guess.
There you GO‼️‼️ Let’s hear everyone say that they are African in Rwanda without papers , they are not going anywhere, that Rwanda is Xenophobic??? South Africa is going through ethnic cleansing and it’s not even a joke…
Elon Musk has posted 50 times about South Africa in just 7 days, and Zimbabweans are just as angry as he is.
This is because they both desperately need South Africa to allow Starlink in.
We all know that the Starlink constellation is the largest array of satellites in the world. However, even with all of those satellites, Starlink still needs to connect to internet data centres on the ground.
The satellites have to beam the data down to a ground station, which then sends the data across the internet using undersea cables.
This is where South Africa comes in as one of the most connected countries on the continent with seven of the major undersea cables landing in Cape Town and Durban. These are the cables connecting Africa’s internet directly to Europe, Asia and the Americas.
Because of this, Elon Musk wants to build a Starlink ground station in South Africa because it would ensure he gets fast, stable, high capacity routes straight into the global internet.
Beyond the cables, South Africa also has world-class data centres alongside Tier 3+ infrastructure, which means high uptime, power redundancy, cooling and security.
NAPAfrica, one of the largest internet exchange points on the continent is also in South Africa, with facilities in Cape Town, Durban, and Johannesburg.
So, it should be clear that Starlink in SA is not about selling satellite dishes to households. It’s about plugging into the continent’s internet backbone and using South Africa to build a solid launch pad for a robust infrastructure build.
Elon Musk can turn on Starlink in every single country on the continent, but without South Africa, he reaches a dead end and can never get his service to work properly on the continent.
This also explains why some Zimbabweans are livid about South Africa not letting Starlink in. The service will just not work well over there without South Africa’s participation.
OK, but if this is so important to Starlink why is Elon Musk stubbornly refusing to adhere to straightforward BEE requirements?
Well, as pointed above, South Africa’s value to Starlink is mostly as infrastructure backbone, not as a massive retail customer base.
We all know he won’t get any meaningful number of customers in SA. There’s simply no market for it.
Musk just wants to use South Africa to route through neighbouring countries, and to him, this is not worth giving up a 30% stake in South Africa’s operations.
For Musk, the BEE thing is just a strategic business decision. All that racism talk is just a smokescreen for a hard-nosed business choice.