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Re: The Only African Country Among Top 25 World Super Power by Yemike(m): 10:26pm On Sep 28, 2024
I can see a Professor schooling a drop out up there grin
Re: The Only African Country Among Top 25 World Super Power by WannaHowzit(m): 10:42pm On Sep 28, 2024
MadPolitician:
We are saying the same thing; you are in BRICS, because of your WHITE economy.
You are with Palestine, because you're a renowned political prima donna, desperately punching above your weight class..

If we look at it crutically, the black South African economy might be worse than that of Chad. Thats if we extricate the quantity and quality of industrial growth, orchestrated by white wealth from the whole mix. Result will be disastrous. What with most of you still living off government handouts and in government subsidised buildings.

BTW, I'm not against you guys down there. Said that much in my initial post. I just think that you black south Africans need a reality check. You all should get a grip and understand that you have not arrived yet.
So basically you're saying in the year 2300 everything good will still be because of whites in SA. Blacks contribute nothing. Ok, i get you.🇳🇬👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾

Keep wailing in your sleep. Rwanda, Botswana, Ethiopia are doing great without whites. Its only SA depending on whites. ENVY/ JEALOUSY 🇳🇬👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾😂😂😂😂
Re: The Only African Country Among Top 25 World Super Power by shotuns: 4:21am On Sep 29, 2024
As good as it sounds, what's the use if they don't have the veto power? permanent seat with no veto power is useless to me.




kettykin:
South Africa , Kenya and Egypt are likely to be among the permanent un security members, South Africa will get votes from Russia while Kenya will get votes from every country, Egypt is Arab and might not go very much.
Re: The Only African Country Among Top 25 World Super Power by KingCold: 5:46am On Sep 29, 2024
WannaHowzit:
So basically you're saying in the year 2300 everything good will still be because of whites in SA. Blacks contribute nothing. Ok, i get you.🇳🇬👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾

Keep wailing in your sleep. Rwanda, Botswana, Ethiopia are doing great without whites. Its only SA depending on whites. ENVY/ JEALOUSY 🇳🇬👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾😂😂😂😂
It's been 30+ years already since the advent of democracy and these people still attribute any significant move South Africa makes to the 6% of white people.. it's stupidity, it's envy is inferiority.
Re: The Only African Country Among Top 25 World Super Power by Ibrahimlagosian(m): 5:52am On Sep 29, 2024
Very flawed list,where am I seeing Russia?,India is ahead of Russia?.
What a joke grin
Re: The Only African Country Among Top 25 World Super Power by MadPolitician: 7:22am On Sep 29, 2024
At the height of your empty arrogance, you wrote:

KingCold:
And please stop projecting Nigeria like some Pan-African hero here. Your region was once called the "slave coast" for a reason..you sold your own to slavery boss, stop coming here to lie. The Zulus and the Khoi fought European invasion, you sold your own because you were coons then and coons even now. You also "rescued" no one, I don't recall seeing a Nigerian dying for our liberation, we know those we're indebted to, but you are not one of them. Sorry!
Let's do a quick historical analysis of NIGERIAS ROLE IN MAKING YOU


Nigeria’s Role in Ending Apartheid in South Afrika

In March 1960, 69 black people were massacred in Sharpeville, South Africa, by the white apartheid police. That same year, Nigeria successfully liberated itself from 160-year British occupation. The new Nigeria’s leaders’ reaction to the Sharpeville massacre has changed everything in South Africa from then on. Here is a letter Nigeria’s Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa sent to the African National Congress

Immediately after sending the letter, Sir Balewa lobbied for the effective expulsion of South Africa from the Commonwealth in 1961. Beyond political support, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was the first leader to provide a direct financial aid to the ANC from the early 1960s. At the height of the liberation movement in the 1970s, Nigeria alone provided $5-million annual subvention to the ANC and the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) annually.

In 1976, Nigeria set up the Southern Africa Relief Fund (SAFR) destined to bring relief to the victims of the apartheid regime in South Africa, provide educational opportunities to them and promote general welfare. The military administration of General Obasanjo contributed $3.7 million to the fund. Moreover, General Obasanjo made a personal donation of $3,000, while each member of his cabinet also made personal contributions of $1,500 each. All Nigeria’s civil servants and public officers made a 2% donation from their monthly salary to the SAFR. Students skipped their lunch to make donations, and just in 6 months, in June 1977, the popular contribution to the fund reached $10.5 million.

The donations to the SAFR were widely known in Nigeria as the “Mandela tax”. As a result of the fund’s work, a first group of 86 South African students arrived in Nigeria in 1976, following the disruption of the education system in South Africa. It happened after the massacre of 700 students by the white police while the former were protesting against the decision by the apartheid regime to change their education language to Afrikaans.

Hundreds of South African students have benefited from the fund’s activity having come to study in Nigeria for free. Beyond welcoming students and exiles, Nigeria had also welcomed many renowned South Africans like Thabo Mbeki (former South African president from 1999 to 2008). He had spent 7 years in Nigeria, from 1977 to 1984, before he left to the ANC headquarters in Lusaka, Zambia.


For South Africans, who could not travel abroad because the apartheid regime had withdrawn their passports, Nigeria’s government issued more than 300 passports. Along with fellow African countries Nigeria lobbied for the creation of the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid and chaired it for 30 years, longer than any other country. Between 1973 and 1978, Nigeria contributed $39,040 to the UN Educational and Training Programme for Southern Africa, a voluntary trust fund promoting education of the black South African elite.

As for trade, Nigeria had refused to sell oil to South Africa for decades in protest against the white minority rule. Nigeria had lost approximately $41 billion during that period. Above all, Nigeria was the only nation worldwide to set up the National Committee Against Apartheid (NACAP) as early as in 1960. The committee’s mission was to disseminate the evils of the apartheid regime to all Nigerians from primary schools to universities, in public media and in markets, through posters and billboards messages. The NACAP was also responsible for the coordination of Nigeria’s government and civil society joint anti-apartheid actions and advising of policy makers on anti-apartheid decisions.

For over three decades the NACAP had successfully built alliances with labor movement, student groups, progressive elements and other international grassroots organizations within Nigeria for effective anti-apartheid activities. In fact, until 1960s, the ANC fight against the apartheid regime in South Africa was yielding very small results. The whole world was quite indifferent to the suffering of the black South Africans. Moreover, western countries strongly supported the apartheid regime providing it with technologies, intelligence and favorable trade agreements. Things started changing dramatically only after African countries became independent in the 1960s.

Nigeria unequivocally took over leadership of the anti-apartheid movement worldwide. Despite the volatile nature of Nigeria’s politics and the passage of numerous military and civil leaders, Nigeria has never abandoned its unwavering commitment to the freedom of our brothers and sisters in South Africa. From 1960 to 1995, Nigeria has alone spent over $61 billion to support the end of apartheid, more than any other country in the world, according to the South African Institute of International Affairs.

The country has never let go of any opportunity to denounce apartheid, from the boycott of Olympic Games and Commonwealth Games to the nationalization of British Petroleum assets in 1979.

Unfortunately, our brothers and sisters in South Africa have not been grateful to Nigeria. When Mandela passed away in 2013, Nigeria’s president was not even given the opportunity to speak. At the same time, the representatives of the US and the UK, two countries supporting the apartheid regime, were in the spotlight. Nigerians still need visas to travel to South Africa, while the French, who used to back the apartheid regime, can just buy a ticket and go wherever they want.


Maybe, apartheid has not yet ended in South Africa.

READ MORE;

https://www.msingiafrikamagazine.com/2022/02/nigerias-role-in-ending-apartheid-in-south-afrika/


Attached is the letter from the office of the First Prime Minister of Nigeria, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, to your forefathers, promising them that their big brother Nigeria, will NEVER sit by and allow the whites(your new brothers) to swallow them.

Re: The Only African Country Among Top 25 World Super Power by babasolution: 7:23am On Sep 29, 2024
South Africa is a great African country, Nigeria just can't compare, the Zulus and other tribes in SA have always been great
Re: The Only African Country Among Top 25 World Super Power by MadPolitician: 7:32am On Sep 29, 2024
As for trade, Nigeria had refused to sell oil to South Africa for decades in protest against the white minority rule. Nigeria had lost approximately $41 billion during that period.
Nigeria unequivocally took over leadership of the anti-apartheid movement worldwide. Despite the volatile nature of Nigeria’s politics and the passage of numerous military and civil leaders, Nigeria has never abandoned its unwavering commitment to the freedom of our brothers and sisters in South Africa. From 1960 to 1995, Nigeria has alone spent over $61 billion to support the end of apartheid, more than any other country in the world, according to the South African Institute of International Affairs.
To put in a nutshell, Nigeria paid o er A HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS to buy ceaseless insults from black South African urchins like you.

To put the amount into some sort of context, 100 billion dollars would have paid for Nigerias power stations to be 3 times bigger than that of South Africa today!

We fed you! You Xenophobic mutants! Gave you scholarships! We provided passports and even nationalised foreign oil companies, just to force the hands of your "whie brothers", so they will stop feeding you to their pigs!

Think about that. You guys have never done anything close for any African country. Not for Lesotho nor Zimbabwe. All you do is to throw insults and taunts around. Which is even fair, because when you are in that time of the month, you turn your fellow black Africans into burning stakes all over Johannesburg, while crowning your white enslavers as the face of South African beury!

What you need is help not understanding..
Re: The Only African Country Among Top 25 World Super Power by Ritchiee: 7:39am On Sep 29, 2024
No Israel huh
USA pampers?
Re: The Only African Country Among Top 25 World Super Power by KingCold: 7:40am On Sep 29, 2024
MadPolitician:
In the height of your empty arrogance, you wrote:



Let's do a quick historical analysis of NIGERIAS ROLE IN MAKING YOU


Nigeria’s Role in Ending Apartheid in South Afrika

In March 1960, 69 black people were massacred in Sharpeville, South Africa, by the white apartheid police. That same year, Nigeria successfully liberated itself from 160-year British occupation. The new Nigeria’s leaders’ reaction to the Sharpeville massacre has changed everything in South Africa from then on. Here is a letter Nigeria’s Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa sent to the African National Congress

Immediately after sending the letter, Sir Balewa lobbied for the effective expulsion of South Africa from the Commonwealth in 1961. Beyond political support, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was the first leader to provide a direct financial aid to the ANC from the early 1960s. At the height of the liberation movement in the 1970s, Nigeria alone provided $5-million annual subvention to the ANC and the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) annually.

In 1976, Nigeria set up the Southern Africa Relief Fund (SAFR) destined to bring relief to the victims of the apartheid regime in South Africa, provide educational opportunities to them and promote general welfare. The military administration of General Obasanjo contributed $3.7 million to the fund. Moreover, General Obasanjo made a personal donation of $3,000, while each member of his cabinet also made personal contributions of $1,500 each. All Nigeria’s civil servants and public officers made a 2% donation from their monthly salary to the SAFR. Students skipped their lunch to make donations, and just in 6 months, in June 1977, the popular contribution to the fund reached $10.5 million.

The donations to the SAFR were widely known in Nigeria as the “Mandela tax”. As a result of the fund’s work, a first group of 86 South African students arrived in Nigeria in 1976, following the disruption of the education system in South Africa. It happened after the massacre of 700 students by the white police while the former were protesting against the decision by the apartheid regime to change their education language to Afrikaans.

Hundreds of South African students have benefited from the fund’s activity having come to study in Nigeria for free. Beyond welcoming students and exiles, Nigeria had also welcomed many renowned South Africans like Thabo Mbeki (former South African president from 1999 to 2008). He had spent 7 years in Nigeria, from 1977 to 1984, before he left to the ANC headquarters in Lusaka, Zambia.


For South Africans, who could not travel abroad because the apartheid regime had withdrawn their passports, Nigeria’s government issued more than 300 passports. Along with fellow African countries Nigeria lobbied for the creation of the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid and chaired it for 30 years, longer than any other country. Between 1973 and 1978, Nigeria contributed $39,040 to the UN Educational and Training Programme for Southern Africa, a voluntary trust fund promoting education of the black South African elite.

As for trade, Nigeria had refused to sell oil to South Africa for decades in protest against the white minority rule. Nigeria had lost approximately $41 billion during that period. Above all, Nigeria was the only nation worldwide to set up the National Committee Against Apartheid (NACAP) as early as in 1960. The committee’s mission was to disseminate the evils of the apartheid regime to all Nigerians from primary schools to universities, in public media and in markets, through posters and billboards messages. The NACAP was also responsible for the coordination of Nigeria’s government and civil society joint anti-apartheid actions and advising of policy makers on anti-apartheid decisions.

For over three decades the NACAP had successfully built alliances with labor movement, student groups, progressive elements and other international grassroots organizations within Nigeria for effective anti-apartheid activities. In fact, until 1960s, the ANC fight against the apartheid regime in South Africa was yielding very small results. The whole world was quite indifferent to the suffering of the black South Africans. Moreover, western countries strongly supported the apartheid regime providing it with technologies, intelligence and favorable trade agreements. Things started changing dramatically only after African countries became independent in the 1960s.

Nigeria unequivocally took over leadership of the anti-apartheid movement worldwide. Despite the volatile nature of Nigeria’s politics and the passage of numerous military and civil leaders, Nigeria has never abandoned its unwavering commitment to the freedom of our brothers and sisters in South Africa. From 1960 to 1995, Nigeria has alone spent over $61 billion to support the end of apartheid, more than any other country in the world, according to the South African Institute of International Affairs.

The country has never let go of any opportunity to denounce apartheid, from the boycott of Olympic Games and Commonwealth Games to the nationalization of British Petroleum assets in 1979.

Unfortunately, our brothers and sisters in South Africa have not been grateful to Nigeria. When Mandela passed away in 2013, Nigeria’s president was not even given the opportunity to speak. At the same time, the representatives of the US and the UK, two countries supporting the apartheid regime, were in the spotlight. Nigerians still need visas to travel to South Africa, while the French, who used to back the apartheid regime, can just buy a ticket and go wherever they want.


Maybe, apartheid has not yet ended in South Africa.

READ MORE;

https://www.msingiafrikamagazine.com/2022/02/nigerias-role-in-ending-apartheid-in-south-afrika/


Attached is the letter from the office of the First Prime Minister of Nigeria, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, to your forefathers, promising them that their big brother Nigeria, will NEVER sit by and allow the whites(your new brothers) to swallow them.

Re: The Only African Country Among Top 25 World Super Power by Sepukku: 3:11pm On Sep 30, 2024
WannaHowzit:
So basically you're saying in the year 2300 everything good will still be because of whites in SA. Blacks contribute nothing. Ok, i get you.🇳🇬👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾

Keep wailing in your sleep. Rwanda, Botswana, Ethiopia are doing great without whites. Its only SA depending on whites. ENVY/ JEALOUSY 🇳🇬👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾😂😂😂😂
Do you own the means of production?
Re: The Only African Country Among Top 25 World Super Power by Sepukku: 3:13pm On Sep 30, 2024
babasolution:
South Africa is a great African country, Nigeria just can't compare, the Zulus and other tribes in SA have always been great
Zulu's are very xenophobic compared to other ethnic groups in South Africa.
Re: The Only African Country Among Top 25 World Super Power by WannaHowzit(m): 3:25pm On Sep 30, 2024
Sepukku:
Do you own the means of production?
Black ownership of the economy is equivalent to the GDP of Kenya which is also a major economy in Africa (after 30 years of freedom). Do the calculations as to how i arrived at this figure since you're an encyclopedia on SA affairs.
Re: The Only African Country Among Top 25 World Super Power by Sepukku: 3:29pm On Sep 30, 2024
WannaHowzit:
Black ownership of the economy is equivalent to the GDP of Kenya which is also a major economy in Africa (after 30 years of freedom). Do the calculations as to how i arrived at this figure since you're an encyclopedia on SA affairs.
Red herring fallacy.

You did not answer the question.
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