paniki:


Why are you gloating about a Chinese company? You were also bragging about GOtv which is a MultiChoice offering that, oddly enough, is not available to South Africans.

I don't know the subscriber numbers, but I think the best thing to do is to go through the Naspers annual report. http://www.naspers.com/

paniki:

It's a good thing that you can read but I think that your biggest difficulty is in the reading comprehension department. Here's a poem to help your reading comprehension:
"Oho!" said the pot to the kettle;
"You are dirty and ugly and black!
Sure no one would think you were metal,
Except when you're given a crack."
"Not so! not so!" kettle said to the pot;
"'Tis your own dirty image you see;
For I am so clean – without blemish or blot –
That your blackness is mirrored in me."
Maxwell's Elementary Grammar, 1904.
Check that... Elementary Grammar.

HumbledbYGrace:
Ok we thank God for people like you on Nairaland, Nairaland english personal tutor since.....pls remind me.

iterator25:
arguing out of point.. posts the stats lets see.. stop farting with your brain

paniki:


Reading comprehension is not limited to written English. See what I mean?

paniki:

I haven't bothered to read the Naspers anuual report, I was just leading you in what I think is the right direction. It could even turn out that you are right with your nuumbers.

morpheus24:


Nah!

I am kind of tired of Paniki's apologist replies, He's been on it for years now.

morpheus24:

Please don't speak for me, I do not "HATE" my fellow country men. They get a scolding from me when I see what "some" of them do IN SA out of desperation. I would challenge you to find any where I have mentioned or insinuated this.
Xenophobia and hatred of other Africans, especially Nigerians (obviously because of their large numbers) is a title reserved for South Africans no matter how hard you try to play the apologist in feeble attempts to rationalize your country men's attitudes. I do not do the same when it comes to mischievous Nigerians in SA . I call them out all the time.

paniki:


Quoted below should qualify as a classic post by an apologist.

morpheus24:



You have to show where I have shown hatred for Igbos or have thrown support for unscrupulous activities committed by the bad eggs in their mists.

On the contrary Paniki is always explaining why his poor country men behave the way they do to African migrants. Broken record!

iterator25:

again, dstv's subscriber base in Nigeria is over 1 million [even babies know this]
http://m.allafrica.com/stories/201208270494.html/

if you care to know, startimes [late comers in the game] [starsaat in SA] in Nigeria has over 1,3 million subscribers
m.allafrica.com/stories/201306260617.html/

iterator25:
you failed to convince everyone reading here that Nigeria has 800000 dstv subscribers .. even your source says SA has 4.5million subscribers .. provide a credible source for it and your middle class source.. else, STFU

paniki:


Woolworths and other South African franchise stores that survive in Lesotho must be doing so by fluke. Or perhaps you just posted and absent-minded comment.

HumbledbYGrace:
And you know why we isolated ourselves and ended up being locked up from the land and forced to use passports? Because we couldn't stand the Boers so for peace sake we had to accept their terms and use passports but doesn't mean that we aren't South Africans.

Hahaha...I love the way you lie. Talking as if you had a choice after you were defeated and pushed you into the Maluti mountains and forced to stay there tot vandag. You're not South Africans. You're BaSotho from the mountain Kingdom of Lesotho. Finish and klaar!

So they feed us right? You make me laugh!!!

Yes we do and its becoming a bit much now. A nation of hardworkers depending on lazy people for practically everything is no laughing matter. But, mahlabisa dihlong

The water they use, especially Joburg city, where is it coming from

From our numerous rivers, streams, dams and lakes. Ke Joburg fela e sebedisang metsi from Lesotho dams - dams which we are investing billions of rands to help construct.

The cities you mention that were build and the gold who actually sweat there Who were the workers in the mines

Paid workers from the entire SADC region with South Africans as the major labour force.

I can insult South Africans the way I want, atleast I know I belong here by birth, by land and whatever rubbish you might wanna add. . Its called constructive criticism, its not meant to destroy but to build up.

Of course you can, but only behind your keyboard and the anonymity of the interweb. By birth; maybe. By land; NEVER! Insults are never constructive.

14:


The 4.5m subscribers number was for 2013, in 2014 it is 5m.
Dont feel so important to DStv, They still make 80% of their revenue in SA

14:


Do your research and leave unreliable vanguard.
Where is the proof for startimes, which does not even come close to DStv subscribers number in Nigeria.

morpheus24:
^^^^

See Tribalism.

A Motswana claims basotho people are not "South African" but Boers are considered South African. One people have lived within this area for centuries and pretty much speak a different dialect from tswanas. The others can trace ancestry to europe

When I say the Motswana is from Botswana and not South African, I am accused

I rest my case.


Eissh!

paniki:


A self-identified foreigner disses SA, South Africans retaliate and you choose to call this tribalism. You might get away with claiming xenophobia which is justified in this case. And I think Tumisang is Sotho judging by her many posts in SeSotho on that other thread.

You might be tempted to bring out the apologist tag, but please note that this post as with all others seek to only expose bad reasoning.


leave ds empty chest beating ignorant people the proof is visible in their own country we can go on n on but South african constition including d president himself whether he likes it or not he has to deliver n provide for South Africans,as many flaws as we may hv in our country im proud for being a south african n i wish other african countries realise dt dez no excuse for a president to improve the lives of people dt what they vote for n not a slave money worship master

iterator25:
lmao! you sound so dumb and pathetic.. my point is simple, Nigeria's middle class trumps SA .. why would I feel important to dstv when we have Consat, daarSAT.. etc [owned by nigerians] ?..

paniki:


A self-identified foreigner disses SA, South Africans retaliate and you choose to call this tribalism. You might get away with claiming [s]xenophobia which is justified in this case[/s]. And I think Tumisang is Sotho judging by his many posts in SeSotho on that other thread.

You might be tempted to bring out the apologist tag, but please note that this post as with all others seek to only expose bad reasoning.

Tumisang:

...and proud!!
Let the numpty from the other side of the equator continue to wallow in his own ignorance.
I'm talking nationality while he mutters about linguistic similarities. TF?

paniki:

A self-identified foreigner disses SA, South Africans retaliate and you choose to call this tribalism. You might get away with claiming xenophobia which is justified in this case. And I think Tumisang is Sotho judging by her many posts in SeSotho on that other thread.
You might be tempted to bring out the apologist tag, but please note that this post as with all others seek to only expose bad reasoning.

BluIvy:


Please SA people don't argue with this fooool he is a troll. He never has a decent argument he always shows how crass he is and always says things with no facts to support his argument. He is a waste of time

morpheus24:


Ok, Morpheus retracts his "tribalism" statement and accepts Paniki's interpretation_ Xenophobia as in fear of a "foreigner" who is pretty much of the same tribe as you but lives a couple of miles away

Ya'll some Weirdo's down South I tell you!

paniki:


I don't think anyone fears HumbledbYGrace. Maybe the xenophobia point was not so smart, I take it back.

morpheus24:


An Igbo man who grew up in Gabon is dissing an Igbo man who grew up in Cameroon, better still a Joburg Zulu dissing a KZN Zulu.

Senseless!

panafrican:
You do not freaking go to somebody's country and cultivate the STUPID idea that this person is lazy.You all get out of south Africa then and go back to your countries show how hard- working you are.
This way of doing things is the same twisted way immigrants from Burkina Faso, Mali and Guinea -Conakry rewarded the people of Cote d'Ivoire who welcomed them for more than 50 years.

panafrican:
You do not freaking go to somebody's country and cultivate the STUPID idea that this person is lazy.You all get out of south Africa then and go back to your countries show how hard- working you are.
This way of doing things is the same twisted way immigrants from Burkina Faso, Mali and Guinea -Conakry rewarded the people of Cote d'Ivoire who welcomed them for more than 50 years.