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[Leyla Hamed @leylahamed]

Recently, FIFA suspended Nepal’s football federation over government interference. Several federations have faced sanctions for the same reason.

Now we learn the White House made a direct call to FIFA asking Infantino to review Balogun’s red card.

FIFA insists the decision was handled by an independent disciplinary panel and could not be influenced externally.

But how is a direct call from a government to FIFA over a player’s suspension not, at the very least, political interference?

[Hassan Mafi ‏ @thatdayin1992]

"America promoted freedom and equality abroad"

[Books Behind Borders @MHTruthUltra]

Dropping a bomb somewhere in the world every 20 minutes for 8 years straight.

[Toolz @ToolzTD]

The ref is letting them get away with their hooliganism though. Watch him book France players for less than that.

[⚡️🇧🇼 @Priceless_MCI]

Paraguay are not even looking for the ball. They want the person who has the ball😭

[Phumzile Van Damme @zilevandamme]

So. We have confirmation that Starlink is a client of Resolve. This means that the former Leader of the DA, facilitated a meeting with a prospective “tender” applicant which resulted in the Minister beginning changing rules to fit the requirements of said “bidder.”

That, my dears is corruption.

[Tumisho Masha @TumishoMasha]

Thank you to every South African defending our country and doing it with peace, principles and dignity #30June #Sovereign #Peace #southafrica

[Lerato @_BellaM_]

South Africa has one of the highest reported violent crime rates globally, yet this level of security deployment is rarely seen in everyday communities where crime is most severe. The scale of policing, intelligence coordination and private security mobilization being prepared for the 30th of June raises a serious question about priorities.

Ordinary South Africans continue to live with daily exposure to violent crime, while comparable urgency and capacity are not consistently applied to long term crime prevention and community safety.

This contrast leads to an uncomfortable but necessary question about political will.

[Adémọ́lá. @OgbeniDemola]

We don’t have Presidents in Africa. We have supervisors of slave plantations.

[Richard @ricwe123]

President Putin's message to the German government and the German people:

"We have no desire to attack you.
Why would we?
Those days are long behind us.
Anyone who is thinking clearly can see that.

First:
Your national debt already stands at €2.5 trillion, and no serious economist seems to know how it will ever be repaid.
Now you want to borrow another €1 trillion to build up your military against us.
Do you expect the Russian people to shoulder those debts?
Absolutely not.

Second:
Millions of migrants now live in your country, costing tens of billions of euros each year.
Why should the Russian people bear any responsibility for that?

Third:
A sizeable portion of your population believes that riding bicycles and eating insects can change the climate.
Perhaps such thinking could be corrected, but doing so would come at a cost as well.

Fourth:
Your education system was once admired around the world.
Today, in many German classrooms, meaningful teaching has become difficult because German is no longer widely spoken.

Fifth:
Your infrastructure is crumbling, and you are struggling to keep up with the repairs.

Sixth:
Your railways were once a source of national pride and an example to the world.
Today, your trains are notorious for delays and declining reliability.

Seventh:
We no longer depend on your renowned engineers.
The sanctions taught us how to manage without them.
And if we ever need outside expertise, we can turn to China, where it is not only less expensive but often more competitive.

Eighth:
You lack the natural resources and energy reserves that would make your country strategically attractive to conquer.
Why would we take on problems that otherwise would not concern us? Realistically, even if you invited us in, surrendered, and waved white flags, we still would not come"

[Alfred ‘The Great’ II @d_black_messiah]

Let me educate you slowly, so nothing is lost in translation.

You said Europe was rich before colonisation. Rich by what standard? The same Europe that was crawling through the Dark Ages? Illiterate, plague-ridden, eating off dirt floors, while Timbuktu was running a university that enrolled 25,000 students?

Let’s talk about what ���rich” means.

While Europe was in intellectual darkness, the Moors (Africans and Arabs from North Africa), crossed into Iberia in 711 AD and civilised them. They brought algebra, astronomy, medicine, architecture, philosophy. The University of Al-Qarawiyyin in Morocco, founded in 859 AD, is the oldest continuously operating university on earth. Not Oxford, not Cambridge, but Africa!

When European scholars wanted to learn, they went to Cordoba, a city the Moors built, where the library held 400,000 volumes at a time when the largest library in Christian Europe had maybe 400 books.

Four hundred books!

The Greeks you love to quote, Pythagoras, Thales, Solon, Plato, all travelled to Egypt to study. Herodotus documented it, Diodorus Siculus documented it, even Aristotle acknowledged it. The mystery schools of Egypt were the intellectual foundation of what Europe later called “Western civilisation.” Greece didn’t invent wisdom, they imported it from us.

And before any of that,

Mali Empire, Songhai Empire, Great Zimbabwe, Kush, Axum, Carthage, the Kingdom of Benin, whose bronze casting in the 13th century was so precise that when Europeans first saw the Benin Bronzes, they refused to believe Africans made them. They invented a mythical lost civilisation to explain it. Because the alternative, that we were brilliant, broke their entire narrative.

Now here is what your argument conveniently omits.

When Europe arrived, they didn’t meet savages. They met civilisations. So they did what colonisers do, they destroyed the evidence.

The Great Library of Mali in Timbuktu, Sankore University, housed between 700,000 and 1 million manuscripts covering mathematics, astronomy, medicine, law, and theology. French colonial forces and subsequent chaos burned, looted, and scattered what centuries had built. Scholars are still recovering manuscripts from the sand.

The Benin Bronzes (3,000 to 5,000 masterworks) were seized by British forces in the Punitive Expedition of 1897. Stolen, carted to London, sold to museums across Europe. Some are only now being returned, 130 years later, after the world shamed them enough.

The Alexandria Library? Burned.

Carthage? Rome didn’t just defeat it. They salted the earth, they wanted no memory of it.

The Museum of Cairo, Nubian sites, burial monuments… looted systematically, catalogued in European museums, repackaged as their discovery of our heritage.

And Timbuktu’s Ahmad Baba Institute, one of the greatest repositories of African intellectual heritage, the jihadists who attacked it in 2012 were themselves downstream of the chaos that colonial border-drawing and resource extraction created.

This is not clout chasing , this is accounting.

A man burns your house down, takes your furniture, and then mocks you for being homeless. That is not a victimhood mindset.

You want us to “fix our shithole countries”? We are. But let’s be honest about who broke them. The Berlin Conference of 1884, where Europeans sat in a room and divided a continent they did not own, splitting ethnic groups, merging enemies, designing dysfunction… that was not ancient history. The grandparents of people alive today were born into that world.

[Musa Ronalds @MusaaRonalds]

Let me educate you not with anger, but with truth. You assume South Africans lack exposure. You assume we believe other African countries are poor and undeveloped. That is not the case. We know the reality. We know Nigeria has oil. We know Ghana has gold. We know Kenya has tech. We know Botswana has diamonds. We know Zambia has copper. We know Zimbabwe has platinum and lithium. We know the DRC sits on $24 trillion in minerals. We know Africa is rich.

But here is what you do not understand, wealth beneath the ground does not translate to prosperity above it. You can have all the minerals in the world but if your leaders steal, your constitutions hostile towards humans rights, if your institutions are corrupt, if your people are divided by tribe, if your healthcare collapses, if your schools crumble, if your youth flee then you are poor. Not in resources. In governance. In accountability. In dignity.

We do not look down on Africa. We look at the mirror Africa refuses to face. We see our own flaws corruption, unemployment, crime and we fight them. We protest. We vote. We demand better. That is what makes us different. We do not run. We stay. We build. We hold our leaders accountable, even when it hurts.

You say we lack exposure. But we see you. We see your leaders flying overseas to get treated, some in our country to get medical treatment, while your children starve. We see your ports exporting raw minerals while your people have no jobs. We are not blind. We are not ignorant. We are honest.

The difference between South Africa and many other African countries is not wealth. It is the willingness to confront failure. We own ours. You run from yours. That is not a lack of exposure. That is a lack of accountability. And until you fix that, no mineral, no resource, no tweet will save you. Go home. Fix your house. Then talk to us about exposure.

[Shaun King @shaunking]

The government of Lebanon just filed a formal complaint with the United Nations because Israel sprayed tens of thousands of pounds of poisonous cancer causing chemicals all over Lebanese farm lands.

If you still think this has ANYTHING to do with Hezbollah you're stupid.

[Musa Ronalds @MusaaRonalds]

Let me be direct, you sit comfortably in the UK, sipping tea, while your people at home choke under dictatorship and incompetent leadership. You are a useless African. Yes, I said it. Because you have the platform, the education, the diaspora privilege and you use it to lobby for South Africa to absorb your failures, rather than to demand accountability from your own presidents.

African countries are sitting on trillions in minerals cobalt, gold, lithium, oil. Enough wealth to build hospitals, schools, and railways. Yet your leaders fly private jets, park millions in Dubai, and you say nothing. You march for Palestine, you tweet for BLM, but when your own head of state steals the national budget, you are silent. That is not solidarity. That is cowardice dressed as activism.

And now you come to South Africa, demanding we open our borders, our schools, our clinics while your own governments deport their own citizens without a whisper. You expect us to be a continent's charity while you refuse to be your own country's conscience.

Let me ask you🤔 how do you let another man enter your home illegally, abuse your wife, terrorise your children and you watch? That is what you are asking South Africans to do. To stand aside while criminal syndicates, illegal foreigners, and economic migrants overrun our communities, and we are supposed to smile? Nonsense.

We are not your safety net. We are not your escape plan. We are a sovereign nation with our own poor, our own unemployed youth, our own collapsing infrastructure. We have every right to secure our borders without your permission, without your approval, and without your performative outrage.

People should Go home. Fix their own houses. Hold their own leaders accountable. Stop demanding that South Africa pay for your leaders' failures. That is not pan-Africanism. That is parasitism. And we are done hosting it. Nonsense!!!!!!

[Toolz @ToolzTD]

Brazil desperately needed a striker like João Pedro for this game. A striker who is more mobile, who can drop and link up with Vini and Raphina. But hey, politics won.
#2026WC

[Toolz @ToolzTD]

So far, it looks like Lucas Paqueta has made a bet on this match. WTF is he doing out there?! 🤣🤣🤣
#2026WC

[Covie @covie_93]

A FIFA referee has spent more time in federal custody for being Somali than anybody on epstein's list who raped kids.

[!Nxau-X 🇿🇦 @MasiloPaul]

First time I hear a repatriated Ghanaian stating it like it is in South Africa🇿🇦, the truth about illegal foreigners doing weird and very bad things in SA.
Sir I respect you, remember that❤️

[Murray Rothbard @MurraySuggests]

The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.

The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.

Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.

If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

[GhanaBoy Ni3🇬🇭 @ghanaboynie]

Many African countries like Mali 🇲🇱, Senegal 🇸🇳, Chad 🇹🇩, Cape Verde 🇨🇻, Morocco 🇲🇦, Tunisia 🇹🇳, Algeria 🇩🇿, Burkina Faso 🇧🇫, Ivory Coast 🇨🇮, Mauritania 🇲🇷, Niger 🇳🇪, Guinea 🇬🇳, Togo 🇹🇬, Benin 🇧🇯, Gabon ����🇦, Cameroon 🇨🇲, Egypt 🇪🇬 and many others have not made South Africa’s 🇿🇦 immigration enforcement their main concern.

Every sovereign nation has the right to protect its borders, enforce its immigration laws, and deal with illegal immigration according to its national interests.

The loudest accusations of “xenophobia” often come from those who know thousands of their citizens may be undocumented in South Africa 🇿🇦, turning a legal immigration debate into an emotional political issue.

Africa needs honest conversations about migration, documentation, jobs, crime, economic pressure, and not propaganda, insults, or division against ordinary South Africans 🇿🇦. 🤝🌍

#SouthAfrica #Africa #Migration #IllegalImmigration #AfricanUnity #BorderSecurity #Xenophobia #SA #Africa

[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

Zimbabwe recently became the first African nation to export locally-processed lithium.

However, many Zimbabweans would either have not heard about this or dismiss it as a nothingburger because they have been conditioned by Western liberal thought to believe their one and main problem is "corruption" and that all focus should be shifted to “cleaning the country”.

For context of how big of a deal this is, what Zimbabwe is doing is widely accepted by historians and economists alike as the primary way to develop a country by moving up the value-added ladder and export finished goods, not raw just materials.

By moving from exporting raw ore to processed lithium, Zimbabwe is attempting to break the “resource curse” which has kept many a developing nation from capturing more of the value chain.

The people obsessed with fighting corruption are effectively saying that industrialisation doesn’t matter unless the politics is perfect. But the thing is, historically, no nation, from the US in the 19th century to China in the 20th, waited “to fix corruption” before building an industrial base. They built the base, which then created the economic stability which reduced instances of corruption.

If you wait for the “corruption” to end before you start processing your own minerals, you might find that even if by some miracle you were able to eliminate all malfeasance, there might be no minerals left to process and you’re just left with the standard neoliberal talking points.

Some will say they can walk and chew by focusing on corruption *and* industrialisation. But this misses something extremely crucial about how a country’s capacity to act is a finite resource, and that when a developing nation is told it must reach “Scandinavian levels” of transparency before it can pursue ambitious industrial policy, it often results in institutional paralysis.

This is because “fighting corruption” means using up resources on adding layers of bureaucracy, audits, and oversight committees which slows down decision-making, exhausts human capital by funneling the best minds towards compliance, auditing and accounting, instead of science and engineering.

Because they’re inundated with neloliberal thought patterns, many developing nations fall into the trap of believing the myth that “clean” government leads to development. In reality, history usually shows the opposite, that it’s industrialisation that creates the conditions for a cleaner government. This may sound counterintuitive, but there are examples all over the place.

For instance, the 19th-century US was so corrupt that the wealthiest among them were commonly known as Robber Barons who bought politicians by the dozen. Yet the country built the world’s most powerful industrial base during that exact period.

Similarly, all the way in the Far East, South Korea and Taiwan had serious cronyism during their rapid growth phases. But they prioritised industrialisation, and the middle class that emerged from that growth eventually demanded better governance.

And, of course, China, which is holding Zimbabwe’s hand through the lithium refining, lifted 800 million people out of poverty while navigating massive corruption scandals, but they focused on building the factories first.

This may offend many people’s sensibilities, but from a cold, economic perspective, a “corrupt” state that successfully builds a lithium refinery is still far more productive than a “clean” state that remains a raw-material backyard for the West.

As Professor Grieve Chelwa showed in his 2024 paper on the weaponisation of corruption, “anti-corruption” is often used as a tool to hollow out the state. If the state is labelled as inherently “corrupt”, the only “moral” solution offered is to outsource everything to the private sector or foreign NGOs. This effectively prevents the state from ever developing the muscles it needs to lead a national development strategy.

In the case of Zimbabwe’s lithium plant, an “industrialiaation-first” approach treats development as a survival imperative. It acknowledges that while corruption is a disease that needs a cure, you don’t stop a starving man from eating just because his hands aren’t perfectly clean.

So, for Africans, the beginning of wisdom is understanding that the push for “transparency” is used by foreign actors specifically to prevent African states from forming the kind of State-led development that allowed them to rise so quickly.

No country in the Global North became wealthy by being honest first. They became wealthy by protecting their industries and moving up the value chain which raised the capacity to be honest.

By processing lithium locally, Zimbabwe is attempting to jump from the raw material rung to the industrial rung. It is a messy, complicated process, and yes, money will likely be lost to corruption. But as Prof Chelwa shows in his paper, the greatest corruption is the neocolonial structure that tells Africa it isn’t “ready” to own its own value chain.