₦airaland Forum

mikeapollo:
You forgot that South Africa was nothing near ''richest country in Africa'' during apartheid? The economy expanded only after apartheid was over and SA companies had the opportunity to expand into other African countries; and they started repatriating profits back home every year to improve the local economy.
Companies like MTN, SA Breweries, Nampak, RMB, ABSA, etc. are making profits in other African countries and repatriating back to SA. Yet you discriminate against these fellow blacks but cannot do anything about white immigrants. Shameful inferiority complex

Its a lie that SA was 'nowhere near biggest economy" during apartheid - it was the apex and most industrialised for a long time until economic sanctions.

Yes, SA companies expanded into the continent during black rule but SA's top 5 trading partners are outside of Africa.

We don't suffer from inferiority complex - there have been decades of reconcilation and development programmes in SA to mend racial divides. So, sorry for you you're not seeing cracks and hate between blacks and whites on SA - we know that would give you great pleasure in West Africa.

LegonHills:
W It is a shame that South Africa is going down but people like you can't see it. Your economy is not growing, your officials are corrupt. very corrupt and you are talking abou croynism and nepotism in Ghana?

It's like you've been living under a rock for the past 10 years and this is a new revelation to you and are anticipating dooms day. Too late baba. 😂😂😂

We've been talking about state of SA for a decade and we South Africans rescued it through protests against the current and past government.

Things are now on the up, there's some modest economic growth (biggest economy in Africa once again) and people are being probed and arrested for corruption.

So, whats wrong with alerting Ghana that they're entering the danger zone of corruption and cronyism?

edogu:
Every government has the right to act and protect the interest of her people. I believe that is what the Ghanaian government is doing.

Some evidence suggests it's about cronyism and nepotism in Ghana, and nothing to do with its citizens because Ghana has overacted over the situation in SA in order to divert attention from the scandal at home.

Video this analysis from SA media. https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSXBMCCnW/

https://www.nairaland.com/8709823/ghanas-anti-sa-campaign-nepotism-gold

INTEGRITYA1:
What about the videos of those businessess that your people are chasing other Africans away from?

It's all over internet.

While there's some of this happening, most of the videos on social media are from 2015 and 2019 waves of violence - deliberately intended to create a frenzy.

This round has been relatively peacefully and there isn't even an official death toll from the police, civil society , ngos, human rights commission, etc - which shows it's peaceful nature.

IronGalaxy:
Very much true.. even those deported from South Africa spread misformation as soon they touch down in West Africa..

To save face. They'd been telling everyone they were developing SA all along and yet had to wait for repatriation flights coz they couldn't afford a ticket to return home. So they claim their businesses were looted and destroyed.

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSXDNabK5/

SA slams deliberate misinformation campaign from West Africa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-_wEB5xYeI?si=1Dj-yDOOS9BRSyuO

South Africa has accused Ghana and Nigeria of mounting a sustained campaign to isolate South Africa from the rest of Africa under the guise of criticising xenophobic attacks on its citizens.

“This campaign has sought to create an impression that South Africa is now a pariah state, which must be referred to international courts,” President Ramaphosa’s spokesperson Vincent Magwenya said at a media briefing in Pretoria on Wednesday this week.

“This is despite numerous official government communications condemning acts of vigilantism against foreign nationals, asserting the state’s primary role to enforce immigration laws and the commitment to the supremacy of our Constitution,” he said.

“More concerning has been the peddling of false information by a diplomatic representative of a country that has become central to this campaign. Even ordinary diplomatic exchanges over meetings have been deliberately misrepresented to create an impression that South Africa is being isolated.”

In answer to questions, Magwenya later made it clear that the campaign was being “primarily driven by Ghana and to a lesser extent Nigeria”.

PUBLIC CRITICISM

Diplomats and other officials of those countries have publicly criticised Pretoria, including accusations that it failed to properly investigate the alleged murders of some of their citizens in South Africa during anti-immigrant protests and unrest.

He also appeared to be referring specifically to the postponement of a South Africa-Ghana Binational Commission meeting in Ghana, which a Ghanaian government spokesperson said was because of attacks on Ghanaians, but which Pretoria insisted was because of a clash of schedules.

Magwenya said the campaign was “faltering” as South Africa was not isolated and remained “firmly engaged with our African continent and the rest of the world”.

He mentioned Ramaphosa’s recent engagements to demonstrate this point, including his meeting last Friday in Paris with French President Emmanuel Macron; his co-chairing of the Leaders Group meeting of the High-Level Steering Committee on Education alongside the Director-General of Unesco; and his attendance at the Transforming Education Summit +4.

Ramaphosa's recent international engagements

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-cw-UDFkyk?si=vPfcx1zA3XvWJCD3

Magwenya also cited Ramaphosa’s meetings or other conversations this year with African leaders, including Botswana President Duma Boko, the other leaders of Southern African Customs Union (SACU) countries, Kenyan President William Ruto and the presidents of Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of Congo, which South Africa was helping to fight an Ebola outbreak.

“This is a South Africa that is engaged with the African continent and that can never be isolated”, he said, adding that “the view that South Africa’s voice of authority is waning is quite far from the truth as well as the reality.”

Magwenya said Pretoria had expressed its concerns directly to the Ghanaian High Commissioner Benjamin Quashie about spreading fake news about South Africa.

He said the high commissioner “needs to put in an effort in verifying the information he puts out and to do so via the authorities…”

Magwenya said there was no evidence that Ghanaians were disproportionately affected by the recent wave of anti-illegal migration protests in South Africa.

“There was an incident involving one citizen, and it was not a fatal incident.

“And so it’s surprising why we are continuously experiencing this anti-diplomatic and unconstructive posture coming from some in Ghana.”

Magwenya said there were political leaders in Ghana’s parliament who recognised the challenge South Africa was facing and who were not happy at the posture of the Ghanaian high commissioner and foreign minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa.

Magwenya was also asked if South Africa was expecting reprisals from countries such as Nigeria and Ghana as some leaders of those countries, particularly lawmakers, had said that the assets of South African businesses in those countries should be nationalised to punish the country.

“There is no reason whatsoever that Ghana, for example, will opt for the nationalisation of South African company assets,” he replied, though asserting that if Pretoria received any official information, it would respond.

He said the economic and trade relationship between the two countries was mutually beneficial and that, for example, “the majority, if not all, of the employees of SA’s cellphone company MTN in Ghana were Ghanaians.

Appropriating SA company assets in any country would be counterproductive. “It would signal that those countries are now closed for trade and business.”

GOLDFIELDS MINING & ISRAELI INFLUENCE

Magwenya did not refer to the South Africa-based mining company Goldfields. In April, Ghana failed to renew its lease on its Damang gold mine and transferred it to Engineers & Planners, a Ghanaian mining firm founded and led by Ibrahim Mahama, President John Mahama’s brother.

Goldfields and the Ghanaian government are now negotiating the renewal of Goldfields’s lease on the more lucrative Tarkwa gold mine, with concerns being raised that it could go the same way as Damang.

Magwenya was also asked if the government believed Israel might be behind the campaign to isolate South Africa.

“I can’t talk to that except it is on record by some authorities in Israel that South Africa must be punished,” he replied. “We anticipated that there will be some form of reprisal coming from not only Israel, but some countries that are allied to Israel against South Africa for the action we’ve taken in taking Israel, or referring Israel in its genocidal behaviour against Palestinians, to the International Court of Justice.”

SADC SUMMIT

Magwenya said he did not know if a discussion about illegal migration would be on the agenda of the summit of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) which South Africa would host in August. However, he added that it should be part of the discussions, for example in meetings with other leaders on the sidelines of the summit.

These discussions should be constructive and should acknowledge the challenge SA faces. “Let’s not scream at each other, let’s not point fingers,” he said.

AFRICAN UNION

Ghana has asked the African Union to add the question of xenophobia in South Africa to the agenda of the African Union’s mid-term summit, which will be held in Egypt in October, preceded by a meeting of the AU foreign ministers in July in Addis Ababa.

But Magwenya said, “As far as we know, there’s no issue on the AU agenda on the so-called xenophobia, even though there is no xenophobia. That’s our information.”

He was also asked when Ramaphosa would despatch the team of envoys to African countries to explain SA’s position on the xenophobia issue. Ramaphosa announced this initiative last month as one of the five pillars of his strategy to deal with illegal migration.

Magwenya replied that “ that process is under way. We’re just finalising an administrative process that is necessary before the envoys are despatched.”

He said Ramaphosa had already been in touch with several of his counterparts. The diplomatic effort was already under way and was not entirely dependent on despatching the envoys.

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kiddaz:
I heard your people have started complaining bitterly about keeping and managing the foreign businesses that they took over forcefully through your Operation Dudula

I guess y'all should just do what you are good at, sitting on your lazy asses and wait for government grants and freebies to feed on. This is only a tip of the iceberg

You believe that propaganda? Wishful thinking 🇳🇬💩💩💩

U think 60 million South Africans can't run their own economic affairs? The richest country in Africa🇿🇦

LegonHills:
South Africans wants to eat their cake and have it? You don't want foreigners in your country, but you want their resources?

Trade, not aid (immigration).

Anyway, Nwabali is back in SA so who's xenophobic now .

mikeapollo:
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Ghana is the owner of their gold and give it to whoever they want, It is not your business.
Go extract the gold in your country South Africa. International trade and migration can only go together. You cannot enjoy the benefits of one and deny the other

If Ghanaian citizens and opposition parties accept nepotism in such critical sectors of the economy it will explain why they've turned into refugees. You included.

Social media reactions...

VIDEO: https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSXBMCCnW/

"We need to have a very uncomfortable conversation about Ghana. Right now, Accra is leading a furious diplomatic campaign to paint South Africa as a continental pariah. A diplomatic row is brewing between Accra and South Africa after claims of xenophobic violence. But if you look behind the moral outrage at xenophobia in South Africa, the truth is starting to unravel.

Yes, we have deep, painful issues with the anti-migrant sentiment in South Africa that our country and our government must fix. But Accra has weaponised the recent xenophobia wave, and to be honest, they have been using official channels to perpetuate misinformation.

First, it was labeling a tragic extortion shooting in Cape Town as a xenophobic assassination, which was not the case. They even twisted a routine summit schedule to claim that they snubbed President Cyril Ramaphosa from visiting Ghana because of the xenophobic wave, and that's not true.

So why the sudden hostility? The answer isn't in our streets. It's in Ghana's lucrative goldfields.

Accra recently shocked the mining sector by refusing to renew the lease of a South African company, goldfields, at its Tamang mine, a site that the South African company has run since the 90s, and now they've given it to a local firm run by the president's own brother.

By painting South Africa as a moral pariah linked to the anti-migrant crisis, Accra manufactures the political capital it needs to legitimize their moves, which is basically resource nationalism, and the asset stripping of a South African company.

So here's the thing: Ghana is growing at a roaring 6.4% per quarter. They want to be the undisputed powerhouse of West Africa, and to do that, they are flexing their muscle against the continent's economic giant, South Africa.

This is why Dirco (Foreign Affairs) Minister Ronald Lamola cannot treat this with passive diplomacy. We must summon the High Commissioner and demand answers. We cannot allow our national shame to weaponize by regional rivals for something beyond our understanding. It's time to call out the Accra agenda. It's a scramble for economic power that's disguised as moral outrage." - Qaanitah Hunter, News24

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JaceBlaze:
I used to think it was just a joke,turns out he really lives in France and only visits Nigeria when he feels like it.

How do you then have an independent foreign policy when you're over-reliant on the West - even live there? No wonder there's a tendency to white worship.

Dodgy stats. Joburg population is around 7M, not 12. And it's not bigger than Cairo - which is not listed.

Kobojunkie:
What was a Ghanian traditional king doing, supposedly living in South Africa?

President Tinubu🇳🇬 lives in France😏

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0yk5WYLnYg?si=2f7JXI3pXSJVf-j6

Ya-Na Abukari II, the traditional king of Dagbon in northern Ghana, has died in South Africa after a short illness, according to media reports.

He became king after a long-running succession dispute that led to deadly violence in 2002 and later promoted reconciliation and reforms.

Traditional rulers remain highly influential in Ghana, helping settle disputes, preserve culture, and support local development. The Dagbon King’s death must now set in motion the choosing of a new king in the coming months.

Meanwhile, this comes against the backdrop of strained relations between Pretoria and Accra following anti-undocumented migration violence in parts of South Africa.

Ghana has publicly condemned attacks on foreign nationals and called for accountability following the killing of a Ghanaian citizen in Cape Town. South African authorities have maintained that the killing was linked to alleged extortion-related criminality and not xenophobia.

IronGalaxy:
She's the same "journalist" that interviewed Jacinta, she knows nothing about Journalism this one.. she came to SA with an agenda

I saw the TikTok videos a couple of weeks ago. Let me drop it here for the benefit of others.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhaISUtYoFo?si=cziaNNf6cNQChX2-

Factoryfitted:
This line in your first paragraph [b]proceeded to attempt to run the show[/b]is the actual Genesis of the fallout with Nigerians. The source of the hate towards ALL Nigerians. The perception/belief that Nigerians, wherever, tend to "run the show". Nigerians are born bold. They are industrious in whatever they set out to do, good or bad.

We have very bold journalists and personalities ourselves, which is why we are no walkover by either you, Trump or Netanyahu - incase you haven't noticed.

I don't know how we'd be left to "envy" you in that regard unless your intention is to be envied. Similar behaviour during a government press conference in France or Singapore (by an outsider in particular) would be met with a similar reaction. Keep painting your country in a bad light. Shalom.

As for the drug dens statements, Kubayi is indeed sugarcoating it - everyone in SA including Nigerians know what's up with Nigerians and shady business.

seppuku:
The journalist addressed the inciting statement made by a minister about " showing us drug dens" and the response from the minister was "behave" yourself when you ask questions.

No, Minister Kubayi addressed the issue of Minister Ntshavheni in detail. But your journalist proceeded to attempt to run the show.

KUBAYI'S RESPONSE TO DRUG DENS STATEMENT

"The Minister is not going to issue an apology because sitting here as the chair of the Inter-ministerial Committee, I have listened to her, and we can debate, we can argue that the South African minister has done something wrong. The appropriate channel is for that to be done through Dirco, through the diplomatic channels, and that shall be responded within those channels.

"I do not think it's appropriate for a confrontation at this point. Minister Ntshavheni never said all Nigerians are drug dealers in the statement. Never. There's nowhere were she says that.

"She spoke about drug dens, and my explanation is that if you listen to the marchers, you listen to the South Africans. That's what they have given us as feedback to say, ministers, please, go to Hillbrow, go to Sunnyside. We do have this challenge of drug dens that are there. It is South Africans who are saying to us some of them are run by Nigerians, and Minister Ntshavheni was explaining the feedback that we have received from South Africans.

"Not that it is the belief that Nigerians, all Nigerians that are here, are drug dealing. That's not what she said, and I don't think a demand for an apology from her is warranted, nor is it appropriate. Thank you."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrMHVzIw9iQ?si=d9RhUil-UYxy4Cxe

South Africa's Minister of Justice, Mmamoloko Kubayi, called on a Nigerian journalist to refrain from being disruptive in a media briefing on Sunday.

The interaction happened during a question and answer session at a Inter-Ministerial Committee on Migration (IMC) briefing.

The journalist called for Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni to apologise for rejecting Nigeria's demands to compensate citizens who fled protests against undocumented migrants in South Africa.

Ntshavheni also asked the Nigierian government to identify "drug dens" in South Africa so that the state could "clean up" the country.

"We are going to appreciate to be told where the drug dens are," Ntshaveni said.

Kubayi said Ntshavehni doesn’t need to issue any apology. The journalist continued to interrupt Kubayi.

KUBAYI REPRIMANDS THE JOURNALIST

"What is going to help us first is respect for each other, respect for the office that we occupy, because we are ministers of the state. I don't think there's any South African journalist or any South African citizen that will disrespect your sitting minister or a government official. It's not done, and it must never be done. So I thought I should literally say that."

"I am going to appeal to you to respect me as a Minister of the Republic of South Africa."

"How we conduct our media briefings is that we open the round, everybody asks, then answers. Please don't be disruptive to our media briefing. There is procedure that the chair does. No, no, no. They will call for the hand when I'm done."

"Please, you are here to interact with us, please. We are appealing to you. So, the chair of the session will call another round of questions, where you can take your more questions. We are currently answering. Now, when you disrupt us while we are answering your question, it's not helpful at all."

During the reprimand a security official approaches the journalist with hand gestures signalling she should leave the room. Following their interaction the journalist appears rattled and sits to listen to the remainder of the Minister's briefing.

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This video is more sad now look at Jayden Adams he wasn't even celebrating with the team ... 💔 pic.twitter.com/0YGVlwTrif

— Bonke (@Buntu_Bokweni) July 11, 2026

Jayden Adams appeared sad and alone in a video that has recently resurfaced following his shock death on Saturday, 11 July. In the clip, the Bafana Bafana players were surrounded by teammates celebrating their win over South Korea in the FIFA World Cup group stages.

The victory secured their historical advancement into the Round of 32.

Police are investigating an inquest into the circumstances of his death, which is believed to be a suicide.

Adams was remembered in a minute of silence, which took place before England and Norway’s semi-final match later that day.

Teared up watching this moving moment of silence for Jayden Adams today during the FIFA World Cup match between England and Norway. Over 65,000 fans in the stadium and millions watching around the world. Gone too soon at 25 years old. MHSRIP🙏🏾 pic.twitter.com/6F95qAwRh5

— Felicia Mabuza-Suttle (@Feliciamabuza) July 12, 2026

JAYDEN ADAMS CUTS A SAD FIGURE IN VIDEO

In the wake of Jayden Smith’s death, a clip of him amongst his Bafana teammates has resurfaced.

In the clip, the South African players celebrate their much-needed win over South Korea in their changeroom, on 25 June. The victory secured their place in the FIFA World Cup Round of 32, a first for South Africa.

Players sang and danced in joy, while others filmed the happy occasion. However, Adams was seen seated and appearing sombre.

The celebration took place a few days after Adams’s grandmother Marianna died in South Africa. It also occurred just two days before she was laid to rest, which Adams missed due to him performing his international duties.

In a post-match interview, Jayden paid tribute to his grandmother, stating, “My legs were playing, but my heart was in heaven with her.

“She’s the reason I’m here… Wearing the green and gold meant everything to her.”

LordBiden:
Randdigital come and carry your sister.

Is she my sister or your white teethless idol? Are you no longer a white worshipper?

brain54:
Camera shot in motion indeed.... that's a 49 years old man. Compare him to the twenty something year old South Africa. I never heard of ugliness caused by camera shot before... an ugly person is an ugly person camera angle or not.
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Punch made the whole article about looks when they chose the first quote to be about SA vs Nigerian men. Go wail to them.

Yes, camera angle of someone in motion and sweating can distort their looks.

Even at 49 Nkosinathi Sisibi will still be FINER than your returnee Mr Lover 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

brain54:
Is that guy not way better looking than this guy?

👆🏾👆🏾👆🏾That's a camera shot of a player in motion.

👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾This is wannabe Mr Lover pulling his best moves to attract Sort of Free Car women🗑️😂😂😂

IronGalaxy:
"I was a businessman in South Africa, I left my investments behind"..who are these people fooling?

Right? 🗑️🚮🚮🚮

SA govt has already set the record straight that they're free to sell their assets on the free market. Let's see what's their official paperwork says about their "businesses" if they even exist at all.

Many drug dens yet to be discovered IG my friend. 🤧🤧🤧

"I was attacked by gun-wielding South Africans. They said their anger stemmed from the fact that we Nigerians were always with their women".

😂😂😂 Is Punch a tabloid? Perpetuating stereotypes of the irresistible Nigerian - top of the article.

Give us a break guys, the lies and propaganda are too much. Look at Oga for goodness sake👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾🥱🥱🥱

VIDEO: https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSXLa23V1/

A Zimbabwean woman went viral online after sharing a heartfelt message of thanks to South Africa for the decades it spent hosting millions of foreign nationals, both documented and undocumented.

TikToker @swinky04 shared the video on 7 July 2027, and it quickly struck a chord across the continent.

"But honestly speaking, sometimes we must be thankful. South Africa has been good to us all as foreigners, both legal and illegal. It's not easy to carry that heavy population of illegal immigrants. Let's be grateful and thankful for the decades that is it has carried us all. We have been working, receiving our wages, salaries. Let's be also grateful when they strike. Let us not blame them. Sometimes they want also what's good for them. So, on behalf of foreigners, I'm saying we are grateful for the decades that you have carried us. The population is too much now; it's over. Like I don't, I, I don't know how can I put it, but it's too much. I think the shoulders are heavy. The population is too much now. So, guys, if you are here illegally. Don't wait to be chased away. Go home and make your papers right. Like everything will be fair enough to everyone. Thank you. But honestly speaking, sometimes we must be thankful. South Africa has been good to us all."

Kobojunkie:
So, South Africans are, in your assessment, unable to source these goods for themselves? Did you know that there are black South Africans in pretty much all countries of the West and beyond? Yes, there are black South Africans in China, in South America, and also in the Middle East.

The more I read posts by Nigerians, the more I get the sense that many of you think all black South Africans are helpless creatures who need your help in fending for themselves and enjoying freedom in their own country and elsewhere. Where does this mentality really come from?

All these people talking down on black South Africans were attracted to + live in black SA areas - far more developed than their home countries, that's why they don't wanna return even if you held a gun to their heads.

So, to say and believe black SA will be nothing without African migrants is wishful thinking. Africans are actually the ones jealous of black South Africans.

franvincoop:
@Randdigital

Was Adams ferking his grandma? cuz I don't understand how he missed his grandma cookie so much that he had to follow her to Valhalla in less than a month. Or is there something you have not told us.

Or did he OD?
But now that Nigerians have gone berk to der kontri, who is now selling the drugs he OD'ed with? Indians?

franvin- poop, we showed you guys compassion when your Bolt driver was killed in SA. I shall deal with una tomorrow once my tears have dried.

Thanks to all Nairalanders who grieve with us today🙏🏾

Solsix:
What are we supposed don with this info?

Get inspired. One day you won't pass your neighbor no more 🤧🤧🤧

He's soiling himself. If you take out my supreme leader, isn't there an expectation I'll wish to take out yours as well? US and Israel 🚮🗑️🗑️🗑️