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Zehdbe:
who gives a ff*** about south africa

Just checking... Coz it feels like I'm living in the future 🇿🇦🏆

Are there self checkouts at KFC and McDonald's in 🇳🇬 or you still pay at the til? 🫤🫤🫤

(IronGalaxy Seppuku check this out - troll's gonna run) 😁😁😁

South Africa has stood its ground and said it will not compromise on Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) policies despite external pressure and demands from the United States of America (US).

Pretoria has been warned that its continued political stance may jeopardise South Africa's African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) agreement, which is up for review in November.

Speaking exclusively to the Sunday Tribune, Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni stated that the US demand to scrap B-BBEE policies is a demand to maintain apartheid's outcomes, which South Africa will not accept.

These remarks come after the US reaffirmed its core demands on South Africa amid escalating diplomatic friction, insisting that South Africa formally respond to outstanding policy concerns following a series of sharp exchanges and a recent diplomatic reprimand.

This comes hot on the heels of South Africa’s decision to issue a third démarche (call to explain himself) to US Ambassador Leo Brent Bozell III over alleged undiplomatic conduct.

This followed Bozell’s public use of media platforms to pressure South Africa into conforming to five distinct Trump administration demands.

The contentious issues included scrapping Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) requirements, rolling back the Expropriation Act (land reform policies), condemning the “Kill the Boer” chant, prioritising farm murders, and halting perceived interference with Afrikaner US refugee processing.

He openly criticised President Cyril Ramaphosa for failing to meaningfully address Washington’s core domestic policy demands.

Bozell added that this response sent a clear message that the South African government does not want a constructive relationship with the US.

The ambassador also argued that South Africa’s race-based regulatory environment, specifically its B-BBEE policies, is a severe bottleneck actively blocking billions of dollars in new American investments.

In response, the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (Dirco) strongly rejected the accusations and summoned Bozell for a formal reprimand over his public “media blitz”.

South African diplomats argued that the country's economic transformation and land reform laws are necessary to rectify the historical legacies of apartheid and must be respected under South African sovereignty.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOuBEw1mhjA?si=ngac2EtgXNhS0WLH

A new upmarket Checkers store in Johannesburg is introducing Xpress smart trolleys as the retailer expands its technology offering to South African shoppers.

Shopping on Eastway opened on 1 October 2026, and is positioned towards Midstream’s higher-income market, with a dedicated sushi bar, wine section and wellness area.

One of the most exciting features of the new store is its Xpress smart trolleys, which are expected to be rolled out within the next few days.

The Xpress Trolley was developed by the ShopriteX innovation team and allows customers to scan and pack products while shopping, track their spending and pay without visiting a traditional till.

The technology was first tested with Shoprite employees at Checkers Hyper Brackenfell in Cape Town from mid-August.

Ten trolleys are now being made available at that store, with another 10 at Checkers Constantia (also in Cape Town). The Shopping on Eastway store will be the first in the Gauteng province to feature the technology.

The Xpress Trolley features a screen that guides customers through the shopping experience.

Shoppers start by scanning their Xtra Savings card below the screen. They then place the supplied shopping bags in the trolley and scan each product before putting it inside.

The screen displays a running total, product information and personalised promotions. It can also show shoppers where products are located inside the store, which means they don’t have to search through different sections.

Once shopping is complete, customers move to a dedicated checkout lane and pay directly from the trolley using the bank card linked to their Checkers Sixty60 profile.

They then collect a printed till slip and leave through the checkout gate without visiting a conventional till point. A concierge is available to assist where required.

Neil Schreuder, Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer at the Shoprite Group, said the technology is intended to give customers greater control over the shopping process.

“This pilot allows us to reimagine the in-store journey using technology for a more frictionless shopping experience.”

He added that the technology could also benefit Checkers Sixty60 by helping in-store shoppers complete orders more quickly and accurately.

“The Xpress Trolley enhances convenience, improves speed, and keeps customers in control from the moment they enter the store to the moment they leave.”

The trolleys are part of Shoprite’s broader strategy to connect its physical stores with its digital services.

Checkers is part of the Shoprite Group.

seppuku:
You and I know those parties will constitute the coalition that will be merged into the ANC or DA to govern.

The powers that control SA will not allow a metropolis like Johannesburg to fall into the hands of illiterate right wing so called patriots.

Watch the space.

They did it in Pretoria (the capital city) so why not Joburg? You just anxious coz Joburg is jam-packed with undocumented migrants and you fear a repeat of June 30.

Google our mayor Dr Nasiphi Moya and her incredible performance in Pretoria - not an "illerate right wing so-called patriotic". Better than 99% of mayors or governors in Nigeria 🇿🇦🏆🏆🏆

seppuku:
Yes a different political party every week. Meanwhile the DA remains intact while a bunch of you keep printing new colored shirts to sell to your constituents.

Shame!

We thank DA for giving us ActionSA, Herman Mashaba and Xolani Khumalo 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 Clean sweep in Joburg, Pretoria and Ekurhuleni come 4 Nov 💚💚💚

IronGalaxy JaceBlaze Seppuku come check this out 🇬🇳 3 - 🥚🇳🇬

seppuku:
A TV vigilante turns politician and you believe he has any sense to lead a people. Look at Gayton and tell me you want that sort of person in politics.

You people are an emotional bunch walahi!

By bunch you mean what exactly? We have hundreds of political parties with differing ideologies.

What's the ideological difference between Tinubu, Atiku and Obi other than tribalism?

You are the ones who deserve to be called a bunch 🇳🇬💩💩💩

3weeksblocking:
Wait is it not this thing that was wearing SAP uniform to hunt Nigerians and plant drugs in their homes ?

The one and only. Been giving Nigerian drug dealers and their sympathisers sleepless nights.

Dalohad:
Xolani Khumalo should be declared wanted by other African countries for killing Africans in SA.

Anyday he/she steps out of SA, he/she becomes fair game..

He's one of the leading mayoral candidates in November's elections.

Been fighting Nigerian drug dealers for years - that's why he will probably win.

Dalohad:
How I wish it was a black southie that was captured by the NDLEA.

I will personally pay warders and boys in Kirikiri or Kuje prisons to make sure he never sleeps for a day.

They'll flog him 24 lashes everyday for the rest of his miserable incarceration.

Keep dreaming, only drug mules and crackheads go to Nigeria.

Fred2020:
Take your 0.5% growth rate and go gloat somewhere else. Africa has moved on you guys need to grow up over there.

Unfortunately your 4% will be enjoyed on London and Paris properties instead of powering your papa house 🇳🇬🥲🥲🥲

Fred2020:
Nigeria has big problems nparticularly with Buhari but SAs are bigger, which is why Nigeria can grow 4%+ notwithstanding last year with a repeat this year while SA was on 1% on course for another 1%.

Keep consoling yourself with a lost crown inherited from the white masters of SA, 9 months already into the year you are still saying IMF data may be wrong. I think they have been overly optimistic about the state of SA economy given what is reported even by SA media

Look who's talking about past glory, self proclaimed Giant of Japa and Poverty.

Keep consoling yourself by crediting evey little success in SA to whites, it's in your Nigerian DNA to be oyinbo worshippers. One would swear you were the ones who experienced apartheid.

⬇️ Wail louder so Tinubu can hear you all the way on vacation in Bali ⬇️

Fred2020:
South Africa isn't seen as Africa's benchmark even for Nigeria, with its numerous problem. It's the continent's laggard, in steady decline, and on course to fall well behind Africa's largest economies within the next decade.

As I said before, it's repeating Nigeria's mistake. Africa is the world's largest untapped market, with huge unmet demand for goods and services.

Decades ago, South Africa's outward-looking mindset let it capture that opportunity through companies like MTN and Shoprite. It has likely lost that market for good by turning inward. China, Russia and India won't fill the gap. The data below shows how badly things are going for South Africa, and its short-sighted nationalism may well be the final nail in the coffin.

There are many large development projects happening across Africa in energy, oil & gas, financial markets, extractive industry....SA is no where to be found, neither as the beneficiary or as the project manager.

These IMF/World Bank predictions aren't cast in stone and countries can change governments and policy.

What happened to all of Nigeria's glowing future economic indicators during the Ngozi years while she was busy cooking the books? Look where you are now with Baba Tinubooo on an indefinite vacation in France.

South African diplomats in Nigeria helped bring a three-year-old boy back to his family in Johannesburg after his mother was arrested for an alleged drug offence.

The boy’s 38-year-old mother from Brakpan was arrested in July 2026 at Abuja airport after Nigerian authorities found 5.75 kg of heroin in her luggage. She had travelled from Doha with her son. She was later sentenced to a long prison term, reportedly 25 years, leaving the young boy stranded in Nigeria.

South African diplomatic staff decided to help. They collected money among themselves (25,000 rands / $1,500) to pay for the child’s flight home.

A South African diplomat, Jerry Sibanyoni, travelled with the boy from Abuja to Lagos and then to Johannesburg. The child arrived at OR Tambo International Airport on Saturday, 26 September, where he was reunited with his grandfather.

Fred2020:
Who cares , how has Ramaphosa being in SA help the case, on BBC Africa the trending news is how almost 30 women have been raped and killed in SA.

Keeping checking which African leader is away or at home.

Inherited Africa most largest and most advance economy from partheid government, swandering it away like the prodigal son

Who's got almost a record $500B GDP at the moment 🇿🇦🏆 and who's languishing at $350B? 🇳🇬💩 Ramaphosa is doing a fantastic job⭐. French Tinubooo 💩💩💩

Giant of Africa 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦

Fred2020:
SA is become a hell hole, thankfully other Africans are not around to be blamed.

Tinubu lives in France while Ramaphosa lives at home in SA. Next we'll hear Tinubu has relocated to China for 6 months 🇳🇬💩💩💩

Greenback:
It happens in the States and its ok to happen in SA,oh yeah?
Smh

You missed the point, just as you missed SA's official migrants numbers. Very low IQ nation - no wonder Tinubu lives in France 🇳🇬💩

Christlike01:
South Africa is gone! Mandela must be rolling in his grave now. Those black savages don't deserve freedom .

Remind us again who are the perpetrators of mass shooting in the US? Your typical Nigerian white worshipping gene won't allow you to face the truth.

dogo568:
Rand digital just left the room

Who lied to you all that there are no immigrants left in SA?

Out of millions of undocumented migrants (3 million from Zimbabwe alone) only 150,000 or so left.

Do you people read your newspapers upside down or you have a lazy media?

franchasng:
^{Sad Africa belongs to Dutch people} and if not for them, black Sad Africans would have ruined that goldmine country.

I expected white worshipping, that's a Nigerian trait. You're the only African country calling to be recolonised coz you're so disorganized

You're eating rats - it was on frontpage.

Here's black SA achievements as of 2016.

Can Hunger-geria compare?

obiekunie01:
Guy! Carry this your sadafrican thing nd stay for your country na!

Abi una no get forum over there??
well i wount be surprised if una no get as una no dey that smart to dev a good forum.

Even the amapiano wey una dey take brag ma, no be una get am!

Why are you triggered? 😀😀😀

(Pics below) South Africans gathering outside the hospital or home of their late leaders. Unlike presidents in Worst/Waste Africa - some who die in London or Paris (others loading...😉😉)

What do you do with your oil wealth? Saudi and UAE leaders don't die in Europe.

FW de Klerk - last apartheid President and deputy president during Nelson Mandela presidency along with Thabo Mbeki.

He died in 2021 in Cape Town.

Get well soon messages to Mandela (Madiba) while in hospital at a Pretoria heart clinic in his last year of life.

He died in 2013 in Johannesburg.

Most recent former South African presidents did not die in a hospital or overseas but rather at their private homes after periods of illness or receiving home-based medical care.

Worth noting is they all received medical care in local hospitals.

This month, the current president Cyril Ramaphosa received home based treatment following an illness on his return from the BRICS Summit in India. He has since resumed his public duties.

More from inside the Nelson Mandela Luxury Suite at Saxon Hotel, Johannesburg.

One day he'll address other inmates from behind bars charged with crimes against humanity like him.

For now we're not interested in anything he and Trump have to say.

Bye! Bye!

Nelson Mandela Suite bedrooms and bathrooms...

The Nelson Mandela Platinum Suite at the Saxon Hotel in Johannesburg was recently voted as the best hotel suite in both the country and the African continent.

The accolade came from the World Travel Awards, which highlighted several South African accommodations as outstanding on the continent.

The Nelson Mandela Presidential Suite is one of the offerings at the Saxon Hotel in Sandhurst, which was named the leading boutique hotel in Africa.

The hotel is a five-star luxury accommodation, spread across ten acres of gardens to ensure a private and peaceful experience for guests.

The Saxon has 53 rooms, with the presidential suite being its flagship for luxury. The suite is approximately 400 square metres and can accommodate two to four people.

The room is named for its history as the venue where Nelson Mandela wrote his autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom.

Unlike other rooms at the Saxon Hotel, the Nelson Mandela Suite has no price listed on its website, but third-party booking agencies list it at least 86,200 rands ($5300) per night.

Some of the suite’s amenities include a 24-hour butler service, complimentary meals and drinks, and a bottle of French champagne on arrival.

A VIP airport transfer service is also included with a presidential suite booking for international visitors staying at the hotel.

The room itself comes with a king-sized bed, a fully equipped butler’s kitchen, high-speed Wi-Fi, and a fully stocked minibar.

The amenities are spread across two bedrooms, a dedicated workstation, a lounge area, and an entrance via a glass-enclosed elevator.

The suite’s balcony looks out over the Saxon Hotel’s gardens, providing privacy from the surrounding city.

“The Nelson Mandela Platinum Suite is defined by African décor and a sense of history, having been the room where Nelson Mandela edited his autobiography,” Saxon describes on its website.

Staying in the Nelson Mandela Presidential Suite also gives guests access to the hotel’s spa, which offers several features, including hydrotherapy.

While the presidential suite is the Saxon Hotel’s most expensive and affluent offering, the hotel offers several other luxury rooms.

The cheapest rooms offered by the hotel are approximately R13,000 ($793) per night, with these suites still offering king-sized beds and marble-designed walls.

These rooms are, however, smaller and do not offer some of the luxury amenities of the Nelson Mandela Suite.

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See Nigerian journalism... No mention of the top 3.

The other buff.oon renamed Twitter to X.

We're still calling it Twitter.

seppuku:
Commonwealth -2003

Africa Mining Iindaba- We have oil over here.

BRICS Summit- We don't want problems with Western power and are not aligned with the global south.

Commonwealth - 2003 (that's 23 years ago, living on past glory indeed)

Oil - when last did you host OPEC anything?

Brics - but you wanted to be Brincs and Egypt + Ethiopia beat you to it. I believe you're now something insignificant like partner country and not full member of BRICS+

Giant of Africa indeed 💩💩💩

seppuku:
What are you on about this one?

We host multiple ECOWAS summits,

Others include:

International Conference on International Cooperation, Diplomacy, and Human Rights – Abuja, 13 June 2026.

International Conference on Dialogue, Diplomacy, and Conflict Resolution (ICDDYCR‑2026) – Abuja, 12–13 Aug 2026.

International Peace Summit 2026 (Second Edition) – Abuja, 17–18 Sep 2026.

World Public Relations Forum 2026 – Abuja, 15–21 Nov 2026.

Eco- what?? 😂😂😂

Local champion indeed 🇳🇬💩💩💩

What are these you posted - small university academia get-togethers?

I'm talking about Commonwealth, WEF, Africa Tourism Iindaba, Africa Mining Iindaba, BRICS Summit, G20 Summit, etc etc 🇿🇦🏆🏆🏆