Former @globalshapers. @MailandGuardian: Top 200 Young South Africans 🇿🇦

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We are here to leave places better than we’ve found them, and futures wider than we’ve inherited. 𝘕𝘨𝘪𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘭𝘢 𝘶𝘬𝘶𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘺𝘢 𝘶𝘮𝘬𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘰 𝘸𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘢.
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Let me also make something clear @dranthoniaeddo. Most South Africans have absolutely no problem with fellow Africans coming to South Africa legally, contributing to society, building businesses, raising families, creating jobs and thriving alongside us. In fact, many of us celebrate those success stories because we understand that Africa’s progress is interconnected. What concerns many South Africans is not African migration itself but the absence of a properly managed immigration system. No country can sustain large-scale illegal immigration indefinitely without creating pressure on public services, housing, healthcare, education, employment and social cohesion. If these challenges are ignored for too long, they risk creating far greater instability and conflict in the future. Part of solving this problem also requires South Africans to hold our own @GovernmentZA accountable. We need a lawful and transparent immigration system that processes applications properly, distinguishes between legal and illegal entry, protects genuine asylum seekers, and enforces the law consistently and fairly. Most importantly, violence is not the answer. The overwhelming majority of South Africans reject violence, intimidation and attacks against foreign nationals. While frustrations around immigration may be widely shared, criminality and vigilantism are not acceptable responses. So when discussing this issue, please do not judge an entire nation by the actions of a small minority. South Africans, like any people, are not defined by their worst actors. We can support lawful immigration, demand better governance and reject violence all at the same time.
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This is so sad and desperate of you, @dranthoniaeddo. For someone who regularly comments on South Africa, it’s remarkable how little energy is directed towards holding leaders accountable in your own country. South Africans do not have delusion and depression. What we do have is the courage to openly confront our social problems rather than pretend they don’t exist. A country acknowledging its challenges is not a sign of weakness but a sign of self-awareness. The irony is that many of the same South Africans you mock have spent decades welcoming fellow Africans, including Nigerians, often carrying burdens created by governance failures elsewhere on the continent. Perhaps if more of Africa’s brightest minds invested as much effort in fixing their own countries as they do in ridiculing South Africans, fewer people would feel compelled to leave home in search of opportunities and stability elsewhere. Mocking an entire nation may get engagement but building one might actually leave a legacy. Think about it.
Every time I am grateful I don’t have delusion and depression in my DNA ! It’s so hard being a South African!
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There’s levels to the game. Goodnight. 🇿🇦
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Simthembile Sibhayi retweeted
Is Foster a professional
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These hydration breaks are breaking our momentum.
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I hope the message in the changing room is “just enjoy yourself”. You always play better with an attitude of having fun.
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Bafethu! @BafanaBafana 🇿🇦
World Cup starts tomorrow! 🏆
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South Africa 🇿🇦
tell me who's winning the World Cup i will bookmark
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Simthembile Sibhayi retweeted
This is clear discrimination and political interference in sport. No team should be made to compete under conditions no other country would ever accept. FIFA has a lot to answer for.
Iran’s World Cup squad has been notified they must enter and leave US soil on the same day of their matches played in America, says Tehran’s ambassador to Mexico. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/x8ky2u
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Gone gone! 🇿🇦
Mbekezeli Mbokazi is Gone!
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Anything you have to beg for loses some of its sincerity. What comes from a genuine heart is given freely.
What's something you should never have to beg for?
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Right, a “glitch” you say.
FIFA has confirmed a website glitch has left dozens of fans getting free tickets for the World Cup 2026 trib.al/U2SelD8
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Simthembile Sibhayi retweeted
Is Gen Z Killing the Art of Waiting?
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Nobody claps for a man while he is building. His family doubts him, and friends disappear. Then one day, the results speak, and everyone acts like they believed in him. Crazy life.
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Guys, whichever players are picked to go, support them and let's get behind the team.
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I stood facing this man in a hall full of hundreds for a live debate. Im classic Errol style, he completely collapses when you confront him with facts. He attempts to walk back his points or find an acceptable path to make the same racist argument, void of facts. It's a real pity that @OxfordUnion has never aired that debate over a year later. The world deserves to see the facts for themselves.
"Mandela, you know, killed many people with the things that he and his group did, you know, women and children." - Errol Musk Is Elon Musk a white nationalist? We asked his father Watch the full episode here: youtu.be/VPcPubE7vH8
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Watching the farewell tributes to Pep Guardiola reminded me how certain coaches don’t just win trophies, they define eras and permanently shift perceptions. For the current cohort of black South African coaches, @TheRealPitso is that figure.
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Without Pitso’s success, particularly beyond South Africa’s borders, I genuinely don’t think black South African coaches would command the same respect, opportunities or salaries they do today.
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He helped prove that elite football intelligence could come from our townships and our football culture too. An entire generation of talented young black coaches are employable beyond SA today because one man refused to accept the ceiling that existed before him.
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