forgiveness: Did you offer them free education as you were offered freely here?
They may not be many but yes! some are using NSFAS oh and not to mention those who are still at primary and high school level that receive our basic free education.
So my guy whatever insignificant contribution you think you are owed for,we have given 100 folds more than you did for us.
XhosaNostra: Wena, I just read something that makes me wonder if this chaos is not in fact manufactured after all, by the powers that be. Did you read about the giant locusts that just showed up in East Africa? Something is fishy. Either that or the end is neigh.
2020, what a dramatic year!
Well they have been saying the same thing about AIDS and other incurable deases for years.What I heard about this Covid-19 is that it was manufactured by the Chinese to recuperate their ailing economy.Everything should be taken with a grain of salt.
But locusts have been eating crops in the fields for ages,there's even a biblical account on that and there were no scientific labs in ancient Egypt lol.
XhosaNostra: Well, it all started under his tenure lol. Sometimes I wish I could turn back the hands of time. I miss how things used to be. Obviously not the violence, but SA as we knew it.
Hai I guess using iron fist to rule isn't always bad.Mandela was a kind man,and with that came pros & corns.
chrisooblog: there are many ways to fight a system not just militarily. We know how we contributed financially politically and diplomatically. You're free to say we didn't help out in any way that's your opinion but history will be kind to us and other African countries who did their part
LOL surely history will exonerate us from whatever doubt we have about your contribution.Okay nobody ever said Nigeria wasn't among the countries that offered support.The only gripe with have with you is the overexaggeration and you trying to hog all the spotlight.
At the moment there are students from across Africa in top South African universities.Should we take credit when they finally graduate and help their countries to rise above economic instabilities since we offered them education?...if not then why do you think YOU should take credit for few South Africans who schooled in Nigeria? Let's apply logic to it and see if it makes sense..deal?
Dude, it's almost like it happened overnight. One night we went to bed & the next morning we woke up to a whole new existence filled with unfamiliar faces. I blame Tata
But Mandela didn't invite anyone.They deliberately distorted his message just so they can enter.
they are the once financing Pandemics around the world just to come out with vaccines from companies they own
Just keep safe my guy and stay away from conspiracy theories.Why do people like you always stay thinking there's a bogeyman conspiring to harm your existence?
XhosaNostra: Lol, they'll start with the whataboutism. Mandela & co. may have gone to other countries to seek refuge, but most of us didn't. I think that's the important part many need to understand. Most South Africans don't feel that kinship with others because well, we've never been to your country. Never set eyes on any of these people until they came here. I like to retell the story of how surprised we were when Somalis 1st came to the E.C. We were like deers in headlights, wondering who they were & where they came from. Even their scent was unfamiliar, we had to wash whatever we bought from them
They need to go and make the makeshift beds besides the tombstones of those who were exiled in their countries and stop annoying the rest of us with their constant nagging for acceptance.It pisses me off when they think we owe them a royalty gesture just because some of our struggle heroes sought refuge in their in their countries.
Lol true.They always raised our eyebrows when we laid our eyes on them.
vaxx1: Yes human survival first ..... my concern are just with who don't have enough for themselves . I mean basic needs. some people highly depend on daily wages . I wonder how they will survived? I doubt goverment can sustain it for long without getting broke financially.
Well I heard the like of billionaire,Rupert will be doling out millions to support such small businesses.I don't know how that is to be carried out but it's a commendable gesture.
IronGalaxy: Our people at that time were very fashionable , if you look at the likes of Dolly Rathebe, Lette Mbulu, Hugh Masekela etc you would swear they were African Americans of that time, our uncles and aunts also dressed to the nines, that was the culture.. we required no clothing, we were never short of clothing, most definitely not from Nigeria
If we went begging for clothes from them they probably would have wrapped us in those Indian curtains of theirs and left us to suffocate to death
XhosaNostra: I'd have to agree with the last part. I guess we've been doing our own thing for far too long, forming bonds is not coming easy peasy lemon squeezy
Wisdom will begin when idiots accept that melanin is not a prerequisite for any form of integration.
vaxx1: Can you give us update about how south africa is intending to handle the lockdown and managed the economy during this epidemic.
You guys have locked down your country , what is going to happen to the less privileged people. there is a debate to also introduce this in Ghana but i personally prefer curfew instead.
We gonna be confined in our homes for 21 one days,possibly more if this shìt persists.Economy will take a huge blow obviously but that should be the least of our concern right now...HUMAN LIVES FIRST .When this is over business will run again but the dead won't rise from their graves,right?
XhosaNostra: The bolded never gets old. It makes me chuckle every time I hear it. E funny die Many bad things happened under Apartheid, but starvation & brokenness was never part of our experience because there were more jobs than were people, unlike now. We lived comfortably & used to be shocked watching skeletal humans on TV, from other parts of Africa. In fact, for some odd reason, it almost felt like we didn't share the same continent with the rest of them because South Africans don't know famine. We never experienced it.
EXACTLY!... Even during that time I'm sure too many Africans would have hopped on the ship for South African citizenship if opportunity presented itself.The bolded still feels the same to this day tbh lol
TMKsouth: Even SA's Covid crisis is not a deterrent. Hence the new fence along Zimbabwe border.
True.We need the Berlin Wall tbh.The fence only stretches for 20 km which in my opinion is not enough...it's a step in the right direction nonetheless.
Baliv254: tanzanians always brag to us in their forum how they saved you from apartheid and how they saved many other African countries
they deserve recognition for also giving you a national anthem
Them and Nigerians have a bizarre sense of humour
Grab a bowl of popcorns and enjoy....
Did you know that during Apartheid Nigeria sent it's military to South Africa to fight against the nuclear armed SADF? I know it's hard to reconcile how a military that can't contains bare-foot bandits like Boko Haram and Fulanis herdsmen single-handedly defeated the most powerful army at the time to free black South Africans.Hard to fathom,but believe it - they lifted the attention from Biafra civil war that was happening in their backyard at that time and dedicated their time to fighting an army with the oldest airforce in the world .Sounds like a fable out of Dr Seuss's remarkable catalogue I know...
The end? no no no! Just when we thought Nigeria could not extend her act of benevolence further than she already had...the Nigerian government thought that sending their soldiers with hi-tech military equipment wasn't enough to get helpless black South Africans out of the tight grip of Apartheid.The Nigerian government being the altruistic government that it was decided to deposit $60 billion into some mysterious ANC bank account to help South Africans with food,education and travel documents,even though this money could not be traced,South Africans benefitted greatly from it.
Kazikazi: But funny enough, you have a Khoi language on your coins! But you can't allow the same language to be sung loud on your antherm? And you bring excuse of all khoisans have adopted Afrikaans? Its funny to see a real owner of a land being excluded from forming a national antherm.Truth be told,all you Zulus,Boers,and a cultureless colored man should vacate that land a give a Khoisan his land,that will be good for a humble,harmless khoi man to hunt freely from cape to Limpopo.
Kazikazi: So those khoisans who went to protest to your president were stupid? Are u trying to say a khoi man he no longer have a language? FYI, a khoi man is a real south African. The rest of you are just invaders. Your antherm should be sung in khoi mans language with all those clicking sounds. But you decided to leave the real south African man out of your antherm,you went ahead and stole a TZ national antherm which we registered it in UN long long time ago.
Kazikazi: Where is a khoisan in that antherm? At least you should have given a khoi man a chance to put few lines of his clicking sounds! You know,that could have been a coolest antherm ever
quote author=Kazikazi post=87717529]There is no need for u to have a head just chopped it off.You can't think.
FYI.. Swahili is a mixture of all African languages found in east Africa with some foreign languages like Arab,Portuguese, Indian,English,dutch,Italian,etc. So if u use Swahili,that means you have included everyone including a hadza and masais.
But SA is strange. You have one antherm which is sung in each paragraph by a different language found in SA,But a khoi man isn't represented.A real citizen isn't there[/quote]There's an old saying...better to keep your mouth shut and let everybody think you are stupid than open it and prove them right.
Just be honest.You never picked up a book your entire life.
XhosaNostra: I forgot to add Paul Ndlovu of Famba Moyeni & Tsakane fame. I grew up hearing that he died & was a ghost/zombie in the streets of Soweto So every time I heard his songs, I'd get an uneasy feeling I still don't listen to his music at night lol.
XhosaNostra: Oh, I love this song! It was one of my father's favourites. He'd play these kind of songs on Sunday mornings while polishing his work boots aka amariff
Anyway, I find it interesting that most people associate this kind of music with their uncles. Every comment on YT is about an uncle, especially one that is no longer alive.
Yeah with a huge Tempest boom box? It was a must have for every household back in the day.
True! thank God the one that got us into Lazarus is still alive and healthy.
And if it weren't for the mighty Tanzania Apartheid would have lasted until 2000? ...I recall you said that.I'm not reading those 1000+ words links,wena just tell me what you did.