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morpheus24:It is 100% about Morpheus's heartbreak in South Africa. Which heartbreak finds expression on Nairaland. |
morpheus24:What, would you rather we watch your youtubbie thingies instead? You could always allow the OP to continue with his topic. Just a thought. Not everyone here is looking to vomit their bitterness all over the thread. |
morpheus24:Like how you are reminded of the hurt and heartbreak you found in South Africa whenever a post is made about the country? Wonderful. |
morpheus24:Which is exactly why your post was mute. Welcome to "logic". |
morpheus24:Also confess how angry you are that you failed to find acceptance in South Africa. You are a reject. |
morpheus24:They remain a prime example of a good Nigerian immigrant, whether you like it or not. The are also outnumbered by the uneducated Igbos in Hillbrow, whether you like it or not. Two facts that you can't deny. Meaning your post is mute, like everything else that you have posted. |
morpheus24:The only NGO you are involved in is the "No Good Organisation". |
morpheus24:You are deranged if you think that I will sit here and watch YouTube videos. No amount of deranged behaviour will change the fact that Nigerians are nothing but hustlers in the main. Even OP confirms it with his story. You have zero to do with South Africa's labour issues. Zero. Your corner is where the drugs are, that's it. The Omotoso's have given us a taste of what Nigerians can be like but the uneducated Igbos outnumber the good ones by far. You are one of the undesirable ones and this hurts you like hell. You can't deal with it and have become consumed by the pain. You can't even help yourself. |
morpheus24:Of course you don't care about the labour issues. That is exactly my point. Nigerians aren't working people. They are hustling people. So the xenophobic attacks and "take-our-jobs" story has nothing to do with Nigeria. It is a SADC issue that Nigeria has no business talking about. Nigerians are only about drugs, pimping and scams. The way South Africa views Nigerians has zero to do with the way South Africa views a Mozambican. So, yes - you don't care about labour issues. Mozambicans and Zimbabweans do. All that you as a Nigerian care about is how you can stay in South Africa so you can escape the ravaged infrastructure and such in Nigeria. You care about how you can milk the system and suck the life out of it like you have done in Nigeria. You care only about how you can continue being viewed as an oga both in Nigeria and in SA. If you are treated like filth, you are hurt and bitter. You, my friend, are hurt and are bitter. There is only one solution for you - fix Nigeria. Do that and be happy. But you can't. You cannot fix it and will not fix it. Your people will forever be one of the biggest immigrant groups in a lot of countries. Again, South Africa rejected you Morpheus. They hurt you. They viewed you with scorn and contempt. Now you hate South Africans as a result. It's as simple as that. |
morpheus24:With all of that said, it remains Nigerians that are desperate to be in South Africa. Not the other way round. Even this thread proves it. Hell, even the hurt in your heart at having been rejected by South Africa proves it. The Omotoso family will forever remain a prime example of what a good Nigerian immigrant is. But sadly, they are only 0.0001% of the pie. The rest are junk and are undesirables. |
morpheus24:You are clueless. You also failed to make it in South Africa and to get the respect you so crave. You clearly were treated like filth and are now unhappy. You think South Africans were meant to sit and wait for you to make your appearance, so that they could shower you with love. You have to work for that love. You have to integrate yourself. That's how immigration works, worlwide. I have lived in other countries. They embraced me because I embraced them, along with their problems and shortcomings. I learned their history, culture, languages and ways. I did not sit in some dungeon selling drugs and hoping to be loved. I became one with them. Anyway, Nigerians specifically are not part of South Africa's formal labour space. Only a few outliers are. Nigerians are hustlers in the main. The most affected people with the xenophobia attacks are SADC people. The drug lords of Nigeria were in Hillbrow and Point Road where they sit in their filth. South Africa has a long history of drawing labour from the SADC region. It follows then that unscrupulous employers will take advantage of the situation and hire cheap labour. Even South Africans that are hired as scab labour present problems, which sometimes ends in extreme violence. Labour rights go hand-in-hand with democratic rights because apartheid was an economic system that relied on cheap labour. Standing in the way of labour rights and decent pay is reversing the gains that have been made by the labour movement. When the liberation movements were banned, it was the labour movement that fought apartheid. SADC people are part of that story, but even they cannot be expected to fully grasp the complexities. The interaction between SADC countries and South Africans has zero to do with Nigeria. Nigerians are hated for one thing and one thing only- drugs and pimping. Jobs have nothing to do with Nigerians. Nigerians have no iota of South Africaness in them and they have no hope in hell of assimilation. They have cut themselves slums in Hillbrow and then they are hurt if they are seen as outsiders. You have zero to do with the labour issues and you aren't interested in that anyway because all you uneducated Igbo guys are in South Africa for is to escape the failure that is Nigeria and to drug and love-vendor. Finish. Don't tell me about exceptions and outliers. |
morpheus24:I can give a long list of countries where Nigerians are listed as drug dealers, pimps and scammers. This is not just in South Africa. Most of these parasites are uneducated Igbos who live Nigeria and who export their rubbish to other countries. You can jump up and down until you are blue in the face, but these facts will not change: 1. Nigerians sell drugs and are pimps. 2. Nigerians sit in social enclaves and have failed to integrate themselves. 3. You are one of those failed immigrants who are on the fringes of South African society. 4. Nigerians are in South Africa for one thing - their own financial benefit and cannot be looked upon for any contribution, barring a few outliers. 5. Nigerians are desperate enough to want to do anything for papers and money. 6. Nigerians are prepared to marry women they don't love for papers. 7. Nigerias are prepared to flock into the drug trade - en masse - for money. 8. Nigerians like you know zero about South Africa notwithstanding their having been in South Africa for years. 9. You cannot expect hosts to embrace you if you cannot do what is required to understand the hosts. 10. Because South Africa has rejected you, you remain bitter. You are a failed immigrant, but Akin Omotoso, for example is not. He has integrated. He is an outlier - him and the few others like him. |
justwise:You say that as if it's definitive. The situation is complex and summarising it in one line is lunacy. There was definitely a scab labour issue as well, which contributed to the violence. So, the jobs and immigration status issue is intertwined. Also labour related violence is not a new thing in South Africa. Marikana being an example. Fact is foreigners are driven only by their own individual desires for progress. They don't care about any other interest - historical or otherwise. Their failure to study South African society is to their own peril. http://www.afp.com/en/news/safrica-strike-season-looms-after-attacks-migrant-workers "President Jacob Zuma himself has blamed last month's xenophobic unrest on an u[b]nnamed employer in the eastern city of Durban who replaced South African workers with migrants.[/b] In the weeks that followed, at least seven people were killed as mobs hunted down migrants from Zimbabwe, Mozambique and other African countries, forcing hundreds of terrified families to abandon their homes and seek safety in camps. The attacks "were sparked off by the conduct of an employer who fired South African workers who had gone on strike and employed workers from outside the country," Zuma said. "Cosatu has observed employers under-employing migrant workers -- especially in the farming, retail and hospitality sectors. South Africa is complex and only a handful immigrants have grasped it. Typically, SADC immigrants are closer to the pulse. Nigerians have no hope in hell of understanding South Africa nor do they have a desire to contribute. They are in it for themselves. Hence the type of activities they are involved in. |
morpheus24:There's only ONE EXCUSE that's fact and it's about Nigerians: They sell drugs and they are pimps. Not "foreigners", but Nigerians. Everything else is irrelevant. End of story. Even this thread is full of typical Nigerian thinking like "does marrying a South African woman help me get papers". That alone tell you what we are dealing with - people that would do anything for money, even if it means marrying a woman they don't love. This also tells us how much a failure Nigeria is - for young men to be so desperate that they consider marrying a woman just for papers. You are a failed immigrant, my friend. South Africa burned you and you can't get over it. You know nothing about South Africa even if you have lived in it. You failed to integrate and now you think South Africans owe you something. As an immigrant, it was up to you to do the work that would help you integrate. But you failed to and you ended up on the fringes of South African society. Now, you are bitter. |
MduZA:MduZA, this dude is a failed immigrant. Maybe he was deported along with the yellow fever crowd that was deported from South Africa some years ago. He is bitter. |
PAINGAIN:Most Nigerians in South Africa are unskilled Igbos who have no choice but to engage in the drug trade. It's an undeniable fact. |
justwise:Not necessarily, but I will tell you this: ALL of those attacked come from mismanaged African countries. |
LeSudAfricaine:I agree with you, LeSudAfricaine. Many foreigners stay in secluded social "enclaves" in South Africa and you find that they do not understand the country even after years of having been there. If you do not do your homework so that you can integrate yourself into the country, you will continue being seen as a foreigner. Part of the integration process is understanding the history and social fabric of the place. Anyone who denies that Hillbrow is a slum has not even begun to understand the country. The definition of a slum is as follows: "A squalid and overcrowded urban street or district inhabited by very poor people." _ That is Hillbrow, no matter how you look at it. And then saying that a township is another name for a slum is something that an uninformed foreigner would say. Where do townships come from, historically? Why were they created? Read up on that and you are on your way to speaking knowledgeably about South Africa. There are slums IN Alexandra but Alexandra itself is not a slum. It is a township. In the same way that there are slums in Johannesburg, but Johannesburg is a city. I will not go into a story about what a township is because this is not the point I want to make. The point I want to make is that you cannot expect hosts to embrace you. You need to embrace the hosts. That way, you will be one with them. Being ignorant about them will not help you. |
LeSudAfricaine:Just a slight correction. Bedfordview is east of Johannesburg. It's on the East Rand. And Nigerians who want to have an easier time in South Africa would do well to actually study and understand the history and values of the country, because it is possible to stay in South Africa for years and to be a perpetual outsider. Lots of misinformed posts here, some from Nigerians in South Africa. If you do not do your homework and make sure you understand your hosts, you cannot expect them to embrace you. On that topic, you could start by understanding what South Africans mean when they talk about "the Rand". The "East Rand". "The West Rand". "Witwaters-rand". "Rand Water". "Ten Rand". What does all that mean? Where does it come from? What makes South Africa tick? Etc. If you are only trying to learn about the country based on what you can suck out of it, for yourself, you will be rejected. |
xwolverine:Anyone can sign up on a blog and say they are the Colonel; and then go on to state things. This carries zero weight. As the news article I have posted shows, the ageing gentlemen took credit for the work and they have been quoted accordingly. |
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/nigeria/11596210/South-African-mercenaries-secret-war-on-Boko-Haram.html South African mercenaries' secret war on Boko Haram Mercenaries from South Africa have proved quietly decisive in helping the Nigerian military turn around its campaign against Boko Haram, writes Colin Freeman in Abuja With their roots in South Africa apartheid-era security forces, they do not fit the standard image of an army of liberation. But after just three months on the ground, a squad of grizzled, ageing white mercenaries have helped to end Boko Haram's six-long year reign of terror in northern Nigeria. Run by Colonel Eeben Barlow, a former commander in the South African Defence Force, the group of bush warfare experts were recruited in top secrecy in January to train an elite strike group within Nigeria's disorganised, demoralised army. Some of the guns-for-hire cut their teeth in South Africa's border wars 30 years ago. But their formidable fighting skills – backed by their own helicopter pilots flying combat missions – have proved decisive in helping the military turn around its campaign against Boko Haram in its north-eastern strongholds. The Islamists have now fled many of the towns they once controlled, leading to the freeing of hundreds of girls and women last week who were used by Boko Haram as slaves and bush wives. The role of Col Barlow's firm in turning around one of the most vicious African insurgencies of modern times has been kept largely quiet by Nigeria's outgoing president, Goodluck Jonathan, who lost elections six weeks ago to ex-general Muhammadu Buhari. But last week, Col Barlow discussed his company's role in a seminar at the Royal Danish Defence College, and in a separate interview with a Sofrep.com, a special forces website, he described in detail the "aggressive" strike force that was created to push Boko Haram onto the back foot. “The campaign gathered good momentum and wrested much of the initiative from the enemy,” said Col Barlow, 62. “It was not uncommon for the strike force to be met by thousands of cheering locals once the enemy had been driven from an area.” He added: “Yes, many of us are no longer 20-year-olds. But with our age has come a knowledge of conflicts and wars in Africa that our younger generation employees have yet to learn, and a steady hand when things get rough.” During apartheid, Col Barlow served with the South African Defence Force, a mainly white military unit that defended the regime against insurrection and fought border wars in neighbouring Angola and what is now Namibia. In 1989, as apartheid was beginning to crumble, he co-founded Executive Outcomes, a private military company made up of many ex-members of South Africa's security forces. One of the first modern "private armies", in 1995 it successfully helped the government of Sierra Leone defend itself against the rebels of the Revolutionary United Front, notorious for chopping off the arms of their enemies. Another co-founder of Executive Outcomes, which dissolved in 2000, was Simon Mann, the Old Etonian later jailed in Equatorial Guinea over his attempts to plot a coup there. Col Barlow's new company is known as STTEP, which stands for Specialized Tasks, Training, Equipment and Protection. It is thought to have sent around 100 men to Nigeria, including black troopers who previously served in elite South African units. Others even fought as communist guerrillas against the South African Defence Force. It is not known how much the Nigerian military has paid for STTEP's services. But the fact that the Nigerian government felt it necessary to bring them in raises questions about the level of help that it was receiving from the British and US militaries, who offered mentoring packages in the wake of Boko Haram's kidnapping last year of more than 200 schoolgirls from the north-eastern town of Chibok. Describing Boko Haram as "a bunch of armed thugs who have used religion as the glue to hold their followers", Col Barlow said the initial plan was for his men to train up a team to help free the schoolgirls. However, as Boko Haram continued to run amok across northern Nigeria, massacring hundreds at a time in village raids, the plan turned to schooling Nigeria's largely traditional army in “unconventional mobile warfare”. Read more... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/nigeria/11596210/South-African-mercenaries-secret-war-on-Boko-Haram.html
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Thiza:It WILL happen. Noway will it be abandoned. |
Nigeria borrows money to pay government salaries Africa's biggest economy faces "revenue challenges" that have affected expenditure, finance minister says. Eighty percent of the Nigerian government revenue come from oil exports [Reuters] Africa's richest economy is borrowing money to pay salaries as it struggles through a "difficult cash crunch" brought on by halved oil prices, Nigeria's finance minister revealed. The news comes as Nigeria prepares to welcome a new government at the end of this month and the country's naira currency remains in a slump, hovering between 180 and 220 to the US dollar. It was trading at 160 a few months ago. Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala tried to be upbeat in a speech on Tuesday after lawmakers approved the 2015 budget - revised three times because of slashed oil prices that provide 80 percent of revenue for the government of Africa's biggest petroleum producer. She said "revenue challenges" had prohibited the release of any funds for capital expenditure this year but that food prices and single-digit inflation remained quite stable. And she said the economy still was on course to grow 4.8 percent this year. "We have front-loaded the borrowing program to manage the cash crunch," Okonjo-Iweala told lawmakers. "Out of the 882 billon naira budgetary provision for borrowing, the government has borrowed 473 billion naira to meet up with recurrent expenditure, including salaries and overheads." That is bad news for the incoming government of President-elect Muhammadu Buhari, who takes over on May 29 from incumbent Goodluck Jonathan. Buhari acknowledges that constricted revenue and endemic corruption threaten his will to deliver on development and reconstruction of areas devastated by a nearly 6-year-old rebel uprising in the northeast. He says his fight against corruption should produce the money needed to bring change to a country where oil proceeds benefit a small clique while the majority of the 170 million people in Africa's most populous nation live hand to mouth. Critics blame the financial crisis in part on the most expensive election ever held in Nigeria, though no one knows how much politicians from both sides spent during their campaigns. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/05/150506055148505.html |
youmour:Beef is when I see you... guaranteed to be in ICU. |
http://www.marinelog.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=9075:veecraft-building-two-oilfield-security-vessels-for-nigeria&Itemid=229 APRIL 24, 2015 —South African shipyard Veecraft Marine is building two Incat Crowther designed, aluminum hulled commercial oilfield security vessels for UTM Dredging Ltd. a privately held Nigerian company. According to Incat Crowther there are also future orders pending for what it describes as "a customized vessel design suited to meet the needs of an expanding and demanding oilfield security industry." The 35 m monohull vessels will each have three Caterpillar C32 ACERT engines, each producing 1,450hp at 2,300 rpm to give the propeller driven vessels a maximum speed of 29 knots. Electrical power is supplied by two Caterpillar C4.4 generators and maneuverability is enhanced by a Hydro Armor Type 800 bow thruster.
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lekkie073:Feel free to post a link PROVING that we are talking about the same thing. |
AugustineAgain: AugustineAgain:First of all, Nigerian soldiers have to pay for their own kits. |
agaugust:How does this post change the fact that Chad did and does a lot of the heavy lifting. That Chad has embarrassed Nigeria. That Chad is deemed to be the best military in the region. That Nigeria is ask but absent. How does this change the fact that the Nigerian military is clearly pathetic? |
EVarn:But you can't do better than "mortally wounded". That's what you are. Shamed and cut up. I mean, your country can't even run an election. How pathetic can a nation get. You haven't "built" the biggest economy. You just had babies. Lots of them - and the babies need to eat. You are mere consumers. 15 bodies and counting already. Don't worry, if it gets worse, we will be right there to save you. The election itself is thanks to us. Everyone know it ---. http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/03/27/nigeria-boko-haram-south-africa-jonathan/ Nigeria’s Election: Brought To You By These Hired Guns Heading into a pivotal vote, the government of Nigeria is pulling out all the stops in its war on Boko Haram. That means turning to mercenaries. |
EVarn:I also would be mortally wounded if I were Nigerian. So shamed by your inability to build a functioning society. The product of Nigeria's society is clearly messed up, looking at your response here. And like I said, if you mess up these elections, like you mess up everything, South Africa will come and save you. We are already worried that you couldn't complete a simple election in one day like a capable country. You had to go an extend it because of "delay". Useless. I understand why you are defensive when wished good luck. |
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