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Odunayaw:
So kabe1 started this low grade arguments in 2025. Have we not moved passed such nonsense since the 2010s?

Faithful007:
This is a more comprehensive ranking that brings in other factors besides assets.

Faithful007:
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Faithful007:
Kabe1 is on a rare Peruvian product.

MiddleDimension:
Apart from entertainment, which I still doubt, I think he is not very correct on the others.

andrewza:
i was acctually shocked when i lookd in to South Africas Nastional budget compaired to other african countries. South africa makes a lot more cash than nigeria and it why the budget is massive compared to Nigeria.

kabe1:
1) The Entertainment industry is also the largest in Africa.

2) Nigeria's financial services sector, Banking, E-banking and E-commerce is also larger.

3) Nigeria's construction and Real estate sector are also larger.

Zelensky headed for state visit to South Africa in April, Ramaphosa’s Presidency confirms

Zelensky plays his RSVP card for a state visit to South Africa following the explosive meeting between the Ukrainian leader and US President Donald Trump at the White House last Friday. Ukraine has long-awaited an invitation for a state visit from South Africa.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will visit South Africa next month, the South African Presidency said on Thursday.

“President Zelensky will be visiting South Africa on the 10th of April,” said Presidency spokesperson Vincent Magwenya.

“The visit is a continuation of ongoing engagements held by President [Cyril] Ramaphosa with President Vladimir Putin and President Zelensky on an inclusive peace process that will provide a path to peace between Russia and Ukraine,” he added.

Ukraine has long-awaited an invitation for a state visit from SA.

On 20 January, Ukrainian officials said that Pretoria had invited Zelensky to visit South Africa. However, Magwenya told Daily Maverick at the time that although discussions had been held about a potential visit by Zelensky to SA, no formal invitation had yet been issued.
Ramaphosa and Zelensky later met on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland to discuss details of his potential visit to SA.

The announcement of a date for Zelensky’s state visit follows the explosive meeting between the Ukrainian leader and US President Donald Trump at the White House last Friday. Zelensky left the White House early following the confrontation with Trump and Vice President JD Vance, without signing the much-awaited deal between the US and Ukraine over the joint development of natural resources.

On Monday, the Trump administration temporarily suspended the delivery of all US military aid to Ukraine, affecting more than $1-billion in arms and ammunition in the pipeline, the New York Times reported.

Following the terse meeting, European leaders raced to salvage Ukraine’s fractured relationship with the US, with the UK and France leading the charge in formulating a plan among European nations for ending Russia’s war in Ukraine.

European leaders gathered at a special meeting in Brussels on Thursday to discuss how to bolster support for Ukraine as well as Europe’s own defences.

South Africa and Ukraine have had a complicated relationship since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. But Ramaphosa’s visits to Ukraine and Russia in 2023 at the head of an Africa peace mission, and Pretoria’s participation in Zelensky’s peace formula talks since July 2023, have eased relations somewhat. DM
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-03-06-zelensky-to-visit-south-africa-in-april-says-presidency/?dm_source=homepageify&dm_medium=card_link&dm_campaign=keep

Baller254:
Who wouldn't want their African president to do half of what musk and trump are doing? Just watch what the next 4 years will look like compared to the previous liberal insanity.

Baller254:
honestly though, If I was an American taxpayer, I would be smiling at the job trump and his team are doing, their spending bill on Ukraine and on many other matters just got lower

bidexiii:
Let me break your heart dude; you're far disconnected from reality and I must say also that you are being overwhelmed with emotions & facts.

Calling a "spade a spade"; Zelensky is a fool and arrogant simp. Don't be crowded with emotions bro, Russia is a super-power that wouldn't allow NATO close to her borders a decision Comedian Zelensky has brought on Ukrainians.
Let's sight a scenario; Would America allow Russia/China or a communist country near her border if there wouldn't be a WW3, A scenario i posted in this video link:

🚨🇪🇺 Geo-Political Scholar Jeffrey Sachs
Schools the EU Parliament on the reasons behind the Russia Ukraine Conflict.

Every-time Legacy Media or a Politician states the was is “unprovoked” is a complete lie.

This doesn’t even include some of the more grotesque activities… pic.twitter.com/Sh3Bck52VZ

— Concerned Citizen (@BGatesIsaPyscho) March 1, 2025

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[b][/b]Call Putin a dictator or a murderer, All European president both present and past are far worse, Western countries and NATO has blood on there hands too.

Big up's to President Trumph for saying no more funds for this thieves. Am not supporting Russia for selling Arms to Nigeria, and when was even the last time we struck any major procurement from them, the Uncle Sam sanctions was a setback for us.

If WWIII begins from this war its because an arrogant Zelensky and a devil called prime Minister Keir starmer and other EU president are pushing the fool to keep fighting I stead of coming to the negotiating table.

Trumph has seeing that if this war continues, EU countries would push super powers into a Nuclear war. An Awaiting accident Trumphs wants to avert, yet you sit on your table call him a bully/arrogant.

GreenandGold:
I'm referring to the Orange man, who's busy regurgitating Putin's points.

GreenandGold:
Just like how he regurgitates AfriForum+Solidarity+Elon talking points on South African affairs.

Fidha254:
So you do agree it's a sh!t show then.

JagabanBorgu:
South Africa is part of the Africa that is rejecting it solely because it's a "colonial relic".

The others you mentioned stopped using it ages ago, some didn't use it at all.


You don't read, your knowledge is so limited and you are here ranting, social media has a way of bringing us in touch with piss p00r IowIives who dóñ't know anything.

bidexiii:
Nope you should shut your rotten mouth. All what you wrote or claimed Russia broke was caused by the same United States, especially the Nuclear deal and the cease fire deal were all orchestrated and triggered by the United States. President Trumph has come to the fact that America as caused alot of proxy war, lavished tax payers money sponsoring uncessary wars and even indirectly funding terrorists groups through voluntary organizations like the USAID etc..

Ukraine citizens are only a scape goat and a arrogant dictator who think the world revolves all over his ass. JD Vance is telling Zelensky the honest truth wish "Mr arrogant" could not swallow, he comes to the United States to steal Task payers money has if its a chicken change.

Past American presidents and woke EU presidents have used Ukraine to paint Russia bad and Zelensky was the perfect tool they'll want to use. [/b]ALL THANKS TO PRESIDENT TRUMPH, WE WOULD HAVE BEEN INTO A WWIII OR A FAR WORSE WAR BETWEEN NUCLEAR NATIONS[b]

Here is a shot video about the genesis of the Russia-Ukraine war narrated by an American.

🚨🇪🇺 Geo-Political Scholar Jeffrey Sachs
Schools the EU Parliament on the reasons behind the Russia Ukraine Conflict.

Every-time Legacy Media or a Politician states the was is “unprovoked” is a complete lie.

This doesn’t even include some of the more grotesque activities… pic.twitter.com/Sh3Bck52VZ

— Concerned Citizen (@BGatesIsaPyscho) March 1, 2025

Again Russia has never broke any deal, be specific in the deals Russia broke and I'll prove to you that all was a trap that would later lead to future catastrophe, Past American president has lead Russia into signing deals that would be systematically broke by a third party leading to a conflict like what we have in Ukraine today.

AskiaHarem:
Donnie is off his medication again. Southes where y’all at? 😂

GreenandGold:
Damn, that looks like magma running down the mountain.

Lurker4Long:
Off-topic

GreenandGold, fire season has started...

According to SANParks, despite warnings that hiking trails in the area were closed as a result of the fire and that the public should avoid the area, people were encountered along the burnt trails on Monday morning.

SANParks advised that the hiking and running trails in Newlands, Devil’s Peak and Maclear’s Beacon remain closed until further notice for safety reasons.

“Rockfalls have occurred due to the fire and boardwalks have burnt, making the trails unsafe for hikers,” Louw said.

The public was urged to strictly adhere to these trail closures for their safety and to allow firefighting teams to complete their operations unhindered.

A mountain fire in Cape Town affecting the Newlands and Kirstenbosch area in Table Mountain National Park (TMNP) burnt ferociously from 3.40am on Sunday. About 50 hectares were burnt by Sunday afternoon — roughly half the size of the Cape Town CBD.

South African National Parks (SANParks) urged people to avoid the affected Newlands, Kirstenbosch and Rhodes Memorial areas. TMNP warned that trails in the Newlands and Kirstenbosch area were closed and that authorities continued to monitor the situation closely.

When the fire broke out, the TMNP cautioned that it was burning in an inaccessible area above the Lady Anne Barnard trail, with a possibility of the fire spreading to the Back Table.

At about 7am, firefighters had been battling the blaze for three hours in challenging terrain with ground crews unable to access water sources for vehicles and hoses. Aerial support had been called in to control the flames.

Fortunately, things turned around.

At about 2.30pm on Sunday, Lauren Howard-Clayton, TMNP Communications Manager for SANParks, said “Firefighters are continuing their battle against the flames in the Newlands area of Table Mountain National Park. Currently, 80 firefighters are on the scene, supported by three helicopters and a spotter.”

Howard-Clayton said one team had just been airlifted to the head off the fire on the Back Table near McClears Beacon.

She confirmed that about 50ha had burnt so far, which could be a significant area for a fire, especially in a windy mountainous terrain where flames could spread unpredictably.

The cause of the fire remains unclear.

While officials battled to get the Newlands blaze under control, multiple fires had been raging in the Cape Winelands District Municipality (CWDM), in the larger Western Cape over the weekend and the previous week – Witzenberg and Wellington had the most problematic fires with teams still battling to control some of the flames.

“The Cape Winelands District Municipality, together with resources from CapeNature and Witzenberg Municipality, have had a very challenging night fighting fires in difficult circumstances,” CWDM spokesperson Jo-Ann Otto said on Sunday morning.

On Wednesday last week, Otto said a fire that started on Oaklands farm above Wellington had been most problematic. Gale-force winds and high fuel loads provided by eucalyptus plantations and other vegetation caused the fire to spread very quickly. The fire travelled down to the Slangrivier Road which it jumped and moved into the Bo-Hermon area.

Otto said that through consistent backburning, teams were able to divert the fire from reaching horse stables and a protea plantation.

“Despite multiple crews, firefighting tankers, purpose-built Land Cruisers and the support of local farmers and agricultural workers, two sheds and a home have been destroyed. Two cottages high on the mountainside were evacuated; however, fire services were able to protect these structures,” Otto said.

On Sunday morning, Otto confirmed that in Wellington, the fire at Dunstone had been contained on Saturday night while the Rooshoek fire was reported to be contained by 2am on Sunday. Teams continue to monitor and mop up in that area.

“Teams from CWDM and CapeNature successfully drove the fire back into the plantation, where it could burn itself out.”

Otto said the fire at Oaklands had no active flames on Sunday morning, but the area was extremely hot, with a lot of smouldering coals and tree stumps. Teams were prepared for possible flare-ups.

🔥 Update on Newlands Fire 🔥

Firefighters are continuing their battle against the flames in the Newlands area of Table Mountain National Park. Currently, 80 firefighters are on the scene, supported by three helicopters and a spotter. pic.twitter.com/vSyM1RGnjj

— SANParks TMNP (@TableMountainNP) February 23, 2025

Fidha254:
The way Rwandan media is having unrestricted access to M23 captured territories

https://www.newtimes.co.rw/article/24237/news/africa/tshisekedis-vast-armoury-in-goma-and-plan-toinvaderwanda

Lurker4Long:

Ramaphosa invites isolated Zelenskiy for a state visit

Magwenya said Ramaphosa believed that there could be no credible peace process without Ukraine’s participation, and that it was not for other nations to dictate the terms of negotiated settlement.

“No peace can hold unless all parties are involved and they have to be involved equally in the process. That is the only way in which you can resolve a conflict in a manner that is long-lasting,” he said.

“All parties must have a seat around the table. We don’t believe that anybody who is involved in a conflict should be excluded in a process and we know this from our own experience, from when we negotiated our own political settlement that culminated in the constitutional democracy that we are so proud of.”

“The nitty-gritty details must be discussed by the actual parties that are involved in the conflict. There cannot be any external, dictatorial approach to how the parties resolve the conflict.”

Ramaphosa invites isolated Zelenskiy for a state visit

President Cyril Ramaphosa has invited President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to South Africa for a state visit and is hoping it will happen soon, his office said this week while the United States sidelined and insulted the Ukrainian leader.

“The president wants that visit to happen as soon as possible,” said Ramaphosa’s spokesperson, Vincent Magwenya.

The formal invitation was extended on 15 January, and followed meetings between Ramaphosa and Zelenskiy on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York in September and the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos in November.

No date has been agreed, Magwenya said, but Ramaphosa has asked diplomats to prioritise preparations for a visit.

Confirmation of the invitation came after the US began peace talks with Russia on the war in Ukraine on Tuesday and President Donald Trump signalled that he may abandon long-standing US military and financial support for Kyiv.

Ukraine was not invited to that meeting in Riyadh in Saudi Arabia, and Zelenskiy’s pleas for a meeting with Trump and some coordination prior to talks with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin were shunned.

This prompted apprehension not only in Ukraine but in Europe that the Trump administration was moving to foist a peace accord on Zelenskiy that favours Putin, a perception that firmed as the week wore on.

It was informed not only by Ukraine’s exclusion from the talks but by US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth’s remarks last week that Washington would not support Ukraine’s aspirations to join Nato and that a return to Ukraine’s borders before 2014, when Russia annexed Crimea, were “unrealistic”.

Trump, for his part, suggested that Russia may have a right to Ukrainian territory seized when Russia invaded the country on 24 February 2022 because “they fought for that land”.

After the meeting in Saudi Arabia, Trump said Ukraine had started the war, the biggest in Europe since World War II.

Zelenskiy responded to Trump’s revision of history by saying: “I would like to have more truth with the Trump team.” He added that the US president was living “in a web of disinformation”.

Trump then called Zelenskiy “a dictator” and on Wednesday threatened him in a social media post, saying he had “better move fast” to make peace or “he is not going to have a country left”.

Magwenya said Ramaphosa believed that there could be no credible peace process without Ukraine’s participation, and that it was not for other nations to dictate the terms of negotiated settlement.

“No peace can hold unless all parties are involved and they have to be involved equally in the process. That is the only way in which you can resolve a conflict in a manner that is long-lasting,” he said.

“All parties must have a seat around the table. We don’t believe that anybody who is involved in a conflict should be excluded in a process and we know this from our own experience, from when we negotiated our own political settlement that culminated in the constitutional democracy that we are so proud of.”

Magwenya said that where Ramaphosa could help to facilitate negotiations between Moscow and Kyiv, he would be “more than happy to do so”.

“But what we will not do as South Africa is to start dictating the terms,” he added.

“The nitty-gritty details must be discussed by the actual parties that are involved in the conflict. There cannot be any external, dictatorial approach to how the parties resolve the conflict.”

The falling out between Washington and Kyiv came as South Africa was preparing to host a meeting of foreign ministers of G20 nations in Johannesburg on Thursday.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is snubbing the meeting as part of the ongoing diplomatic row between Washington and Pretoria, but Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will attend.

Magwenya confirmed Ramaphosa was expecting a courtesy call from Lavrov, suggesting that he would brief the president on the talks in Riyadh, which were officially led by Rubio.

Leaders of major European countries on Monday held a hastily arranged summit in Paris, prompted by Trump’s rapprochement with Putin and decision to embark on negotiations on Russia’s war in Ukraine without including them.

Magwenya said it was imperative that Europe be given a seat at the negotiating table.

“We believe that all interested parties must be heard, and that includes Europe. A peace deal between Russia and Ukraine should not exclude any party. It should include the US, it should include Europe.”

Foreign diplomats in South Africa said they expected the US initiative on the war in Ukraine to be discussed on the sidelines of the G20 meeting.

The event is an opportunity for South Africa, which holds the year-long presidency of the G20, to shore up consensus around an agenda that focuses strongly on equitable development and sustainability — themes Rubio dismissed as proof of the host nation’s “anti-Americanism” — and to deepen alliances with European nations.

European diplomats last week expressed support for South Africa’s leadership of the world’s top forum for economic cooperation, with European Commission president Antonio Costa saying the EU was committed to deepening ties with South Africa, as a “reliable and predictable” partner.

Officials said while the government would not seek to isolate the US after Trump suspended all donor funding to South Africa, the tone adopted recently by Hegseth and US Deputy President JD Vance would not hurt its search for common ground with European partners.

At the 61st Munich Security Conference last Friday, Vance told European leaders to stop marginalising far-right parties, after his meeting with the ultra-nationalist Alternative for Germany (AfD), which has not been banned but kept out of ruling coalitions by the country’s so-called firewall against extremism.

Vance was rebuked by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who said his country would not take directions on how to run its democracy or accommodate a party that minimised Nazi crimes.

“A commitment to ‘never again’ is not reconcilable with support for the AfD,” Scholz said.

In his presidential order cutting off aid to South Africa, Trump reiterated his support for Afrikaners, who he says are a white minority group who face racial persecution under post-apartheid rule.
https://mg.co.za/politics/2025-02-20-ramaphosa-invites-isolated-zelenskiy-for-a-state-visit/

Odunayaw:
Tinfool as usual

ViceAdmirlAgain:
Newly unveiled APC's of the Namibian Military, looks like they are mounted with a RWS, anyone that can help ID them?