₦airaland Forum

IronGalaxy:
ouch. 😬

The thread invited us to share great designs, what's his problem? He's triggered by SA awesomeness.

2RightHands1Coc:
What is SA version of Nairaland?

Multichoice.

What's your version of Multichoice?

The Hector Peterson Museum has become one of Soweto's biggest tourist attractions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3bEMK2z6HU?si=zbeOWkZjKFXu4A74

YOUTH DAY🇿🇦 & INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE AFRICAN CHILD🌍

The day of 16 June 1976 began peacefully in Soweto. Student leaders at high schools across the sprawling Johannesburg township, to which the apartheid regime had exiled hundreds of thousands of black South Africans, took charge of the morning assemblies. They led their fellow students into the streets and began to march toward Orlando stadium.

The students were protesting against the government’s imposition of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction. Their teachers barely spoke the white minority language and the students did not want to learn the oppressor’s language. They were tired of the intentionally substandard Bantu education, tired of being second-class citizens.

By the end of the day, dozens would be dead.

The mood of the young protesters started off joyous, people who marched that winter day remembered. They sang struggle anthems, including Senzeni Na?, which asks in Xhosa: “What have we done [to deserve this]?”

“Our worst-case scenario, of course, was that they were going to throw cans and cans of teargas at us,” said Sibongile Mkhabela, then an 18-year-old pupil at Naledi high school and one of the march organisers.

As the children moved east, more schools joined. By the time the first group reached Orlando West, where Nelson Mandela had lived before he was imprisoned on Robben Island, the students numbered in their thousands.

They faced a wall of police. The police had a loudhailer, said Oupa Moloto, then a 19-year-old pupil at Morris Isaacson high school. But none of the students could hear what was being said.

Accounts of what happened next differ. Some say a white police officer threw a teargas canister into the crowd. Moloto remembered police dogs being released to attack marchers. “Now, women students were panicking and then we took stones to retaliate,” he said. “And then the firing started.”

Moloto thought it was fireworks at first. Then he saw that a boy next to him had been shot: “I was surprised when I saw this bleeding, that these guys are really shooting.”

He did not know what happened to the boy in the pandemonium that followed. “Helicopters were hovering over, shooting teargas from up in the sky. Students were panicking, running in different directions,” Moloto said.

Among the first to die were 15-year-old Hastings Ndlovu and 12-year-old Hector Pieterson. The photograph taken by the local journalist Sam Nzima of Mbuyisa Makhubo carrying Hector’s limp, bloodied body, Hector’s sister Antoinette running beside them, face twisted in anguish, became the day’s defining image.

The number of people killed that day, which became known as the Soweto uprising, has never been definitively confirmed. The official figure was 23, but some estimates put the death toll at more than 200, according to South African History Online, a respected resource.

The unrest spread to other townships. Government institutions were looted and burned. The police continued to fire. A regime report in 1980 concluded that 575 people died in the months after the start of the uprising. “By the end of 1976, the entire apartheid system was on trial,” said Mkhabela, who now runs an NGO.

The uprising created a new generation of anti-apartheid activists, reviving a struggle that had faltered after Mandela and other African National Congress leaders were given life sentences in 1964. Thousands of students fled South Africa to join uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the ANC in exile.

This baddie has been ranked amongst the best 🇿🇦🔥🔥🔥

BennyDGreat:
The reason you take this position is because you aren't the artist affected. Someone's livelihood has been negatively affected and you don't care. That's insensitive.

Our lives and livelihoods are also affected by rampant crime. Also, for decades we fought for living wages (like most upper middle income countries) and undocumented migrants undermine that by accepting slave wages.

BennyDGreat:
The reason you take this position is because you aren't the artist affected. Someone's livelihood has been negatively affected and you don't care. That's insensitive.

If illegal migration is to be handled, let the government do it, not harassing and attacking people.

I actually agree, and so do most South Africans. The SA govt is equally to blame for the frustrations - and the pressure has been boiling for decades. The govt is only finally taking action because the country is revolting. It's a complex situation.

MORE BUSES EXPECTED IN DURBAN TO REPATRIATE MALAWIAN NATIONALS


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnmktkIe54A?si=33Mcs_OVgicbFZd2

ALL MALAWIANS VERIED SO FAR FOUND TO BE IN SA ILLEGALLY

The first 1140 Malawian nationals processed at a repatriation site in Durban were found to be in the country illegally, Deputy Home Affairs Minister Njabulo Nzuza said on Sunday, as authorities stepped up efforts to return thousands of foreign nationals to Malawi.

"Of those that have been verified, they are all illegal," Nzuza said.

The verification process is continuing and officials are conducting biometric checks against government databases to determine whether any of those being processed are linked to criminal matters.

Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber said 2745 repatriations had been carried out since President Cyril Ramaphosa's address on migration and illegal immigration on 7 June, although he cautioned that the figure continued to change as processing and removals continued.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbmncJIYcIw?si=TRj1Kreh6Fv2nIog

The South African government will require more than 1,000 buses to facilitate the repatriation over 7,000 Malawian nationals currently stranded in Sherwood, Durban, chairperson of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Migration (IMC) Mmamoloko Kubayi announced on Sunday.

The repatriation effort follows escalating protests demanding illegal immigrants leave the country by June 30.

The recent spate of unrest, driven by civic groups like March and March and others, has propelled the government into action.

At a Sunday media briefing in Pretoria, Kubayi said the repatriation process for the estimated 7,000 Malawians in Sherwood Park must be expedited, highlighting that their numbers have surged recently.

"We are committed to ensuring the safe return of our citizens. Our transport requirements have drastically increased, and more than 1,000 buses are essential to facilitate this effort efficiently," Kubayi stated.

Regarding the Malawian citizens at Sherwood, Kubayi revealed that the Malawian government has commissioned eight buses that will start moving their citizens today. To expedite the repatriation process, the South African government will support the effort with 10 additional buses for the deportation of some Malawian nationals.

"So far, 980 Malawians have been deported from Lindela on 10 June as part of a crackdown. Going forward, the re-establishment of a court at Lindela will ensure that deportation from Lindela centre will be expedited," she added.

During her address, Kubayi also unveiled alarming statistics surrounding illegal immigration, with law enforcement agencies having made over 40,000 arrests since the beginning of the year. This includes an impressive tally of 7,400 arrests in the past month alone, all in relation to violations of the Immigration Act.

"There is a belief that the government is wilfully ignoring illegal immigration; however, this is far from the truth," Kubayi asserted.

"Our operational efforts have not only been ongoing but also intensifying across various regions. For example, in recent weeks alone, 143 arrests have been made for not only illegal entry but also for inciting violence during the protests."

TheStoriesOfMan:
Really? Is that what you have to say?

I expected more strong propaganda. Guy you fall my hand oooo.

We're done explaining ourselves. We're finally cleaning house after decades of backing down to blackmail from countries that won't accept they're flooding more successful countries due to their own mismanagement.

UK brexited and they're doing better than ever before. There are better trading partners outside of Africa.

Sunshine34:
No problem, dey your dey and I dey my dey, but una go cry blood soon, believe me.

We won't be blackmailed into accepting illegal migrants and criminals. We've had enough. Do your worst.

TheStoriesOfMan:
Randdigital, over to you.

It's not the first time. Rather they be cancelled than SA continue being a hub for illegal migration and criminality.

Propagandists hard at work -these are probably Sunday street views when most businesses are closed. SA is the most industrialised country in Africa - why would it run out of businesses?

Those few businesses in relation that were run by illegal migrants will be replaced by businesses that pay tax and don't hire slave labour (which are also Illegal migrants).

Goo0dHardDick:
SA can leave Africa continent too. Two insane countries. SA must go berk to their kwatry and protect their jabs!

Have Save Johnny back from Sort of Free Car, in G Source name 🙏🏾

Mcslize:
They are taking our jobs. They are taking our women.

South Africa is going to have chronic shortage of skilled workers in the next 1 year trust me.

Rand.Digital come and carry your people.

Why would workers protest and not the employers? Where's the video, where's the source? Fake news. And you're all buying it😂😂😂

Same thing happened yesterday - they said Bafana Bafana captain was in tears for lack of African support. Caption said video but it was not posted 🚮🗑️

Where's the video? Fake news

Why would the workers protest and not the employers. Sometimes Nigerians fall for anything and everything.

Omoawoke:
When you have no sensible response,

This is the best you come with

So I’m supposed to feel bad by what you posted ?? Lmao.

This South African blacks 🤣🤣🤣

If you want to learn banter, come to the school of banter and learn work….

Go bek to your kentry you xenophobic head 🤣


Poverty capital of the universe 😭😭😭😭

Look at the time... 🇳🇬💩💩💩

Omoawoke:
So how many. Nigerians are in your country?

And if I want to come to your South Africa, I will migrate there and there’s nothing you or any of your fathers father can do about it..

But moving to South Africa is a complete waste for me…

I don’t care!

Have a save johnny from Sort of Free Car, in G Source name 🙏🏾

erniok:
Not even up to a thousand and you guys make noise as though you have millions of illegal Nigerians living in your midst.

You understand only 1000 Nigerians agreed to repatriate, right? Not that there are 1000 Nigerians in SA. Simple logic.

dequir:
And the Indians have now become your masters. What a coincidence.

And you've been sent back to your papa land.

Kushites:
Don't mind the thoughtless people.
Indians nko?

In South Africa there are over 3 million Indians. If India is heaven, what are they doing there? And no one ever tells them to go back and fix their country..

It's just black self hate at work in South Africa.

The traumatic effects of Apartheid.

Apartheid actually STILL exists there.

They just put lipstick on a pig.

You don't even know history but you have a loud mouth. Indians were brought to SA as indentured labour during the colonial era to work on the sugar farms.

So many Nigerians in one single prison in Ethiopia alone - imagine South Africa or India You guys need serious national moral orientation.

sleeknaija:
My own question is, is it a vice versa thing? Can South Africans allow such in their own cyberspace? I mean as a Nigerian can you have freedom of expression on a platform owned by South Africans in South Africa?

You guys are allergic to counter narratives. You were very happy to read that the Bafana Bafana captain "was in tears" over lack of African support even though that article didn't even provide video proof.

IronGalaxy:
This guy wasnt xenophobic.. the overuse of this word has distorted its meaning

Even SA media across the spectrum has stopped using the term in favour of "anti illegal migration".

Most Nigerians hate on you when you stop them from commiting crime. Then they will call you lazy and ugly 😂😂😂

Julibet:
https://www.news24.com/southafrica/crime-and-courts/two-arrested-for-murder-during-deadly-anti-immigrant-violence-in-mossel-bay-20260609-0949

See your fellow Xenophobic brothers and sisters hailing the killing of a Uber driver - https://x.com/i/status/2065413904998572504

https://www.ewn.co.za/2026/06/02/mossel-bay-murder-not-linked-to-anti-immigration-protests-say-western-cape-police#google_vignette

The Bolt issue was a hijacking, not xenophobic attack.

Julibet:
So the solution to illegal migration is to kill them?

Give us the death toll. It doesn't exist.

Flangelo12:
Don't worry about that.

They just don't want your business.

Surely, you understand that.

Fine with us. Shoprite closed business across Africa and it's doing better now with expansion across SA. There are plenty other markets. Question is whether you African countries have alternatives? To this day Nigeria still doesn't have a viable replacement for Shoprite - shops and shelves are laying idle 😂😂😂

Kushites:
TELL ALL YOUR SOUTH AFRICAN COMPANIES THROUGHOUT AFRICA TO START PACKING THEIR BAGS AND BAGGAGES, AND GETTING OUT.

THIS IS JUST THE START.

Like you have other options 💩💩💩 Who has since replaced Shoprite? Your shops and shelves are laying empty since we left 😂😂😂🇿🇦🏆

Kushites:
SHUT UP!

WHO ASKED YOU?

Don't their papas have houses? Go home 🇳🇬🇬🇭

Over half of 1000 Nigerians repatriated from SA were illegal.

They should rather protest against entering other people's countries illegally.