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Foreign Affairs › Re: US Declares South Africa's Ambassador Persona Non Grata by RandDigital: 7:13am On Mar 15, 2025
Cleanman:
Cc RanDigital what do you have to say on this matter?
SA has a well articulated foreign policy and our support for Palestine against apartheid Israel is unwaivering. Such was excepted and SA will look elsewhere to deepen trade and diplomatic relations for the next 4 years.

https://www.nairaland.com/8369233/eu-pledges-5-billion-south

Foreign Affairs › Re: US Declares South Africa's Ambassador Persona Non Grata by RandDigital: 7:09am On Mar 15, 2025
God1000:
South Africa should do the same to them, the entire administration from the president to his vice and secretary of state are fools

Donald trump was a comedian before joining politics, so they will continue to act drama on daily basis
There's no ambassador yet to SA.

SA kicked out apartheid Israel ambassador months back, so I see what's happening.
Foreign Affairs › Re: US Declares South Africa's Ambassador Persona Non Grata by RandDigital: 7:08am On Mar 15, 2025
atiku4President:
Very good one. What they have been doing to Nigerians and citizens of other African countries. More is still coming their way. Karma is real. What a useless country filled with corrupt and wicked men that kill their wives and girlfriends like fowls
Nigeria collecting US sanctions despite not having an opinion on anything and everything. SA's foreign policy stance is well known and hence the retaliation from US.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Rubio Says South African Ambassador Is ‘no Longer Welcome’ In US by RandDigital:
atiku4President:
Awesome. The same way South Africa treats Nigerians and citizens of other African countries. I so much love this. Useless South Africa
The same Nigeria that doesn't have an opinion on any global matters is also being lashed with US sanctions. For SA we can pinpoint why we're in the firing line. Can you? That's how useless you are, sanctioned for sitting quietly.
Foreign Affairs › EU Pledges $5 Billion To South Africa As Trump Brings Them Closer - PICTURES by RandDigital(op): 9:44pm On Mar 14, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWfwLJV7sRI?si=AJkeBwLotDItiOs5

European Union leaders announced a 4.7 billion euro ($5.10 billion) investment package during a visit to South Africa on Thursday, at a time when both are on worse terms with the United States than they have been for decades.

The European leaders said the visit was an opportunity to strengthen close ties with Africa's most advanced economy, coinciding with the latter's presidency of the Group of 20 nations, which U.S. officials have so far largely snubbed.

U.S. President Donald Trump has stunned European leaders with his pivot towards Russia in the Ukraine war, upending U.S. policy since Moscow's full-scale invasion in 2022. His staunchly pro-Israel stance has brought him into conflict with South Africa over its genocide case against Israel at the World Court.

The U.S. administration has also interposed itself in Europe and South Africa's domestic politics, criticising Europe for attempting to isolate the far right and ignoring voters' concerns about immigrants, while cutting aid to South Africa over its efforts to address historic racial land injustice.

Ramaphosa, Von der Leyen & Da Costa quotes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8U3TynTVpc?si=tUcoOQVOpcY4rE2g

The EU trip was an opportunity to ameliorate ties, which soured when South Africa refused to outright condemn Russia's Vladimir Putin for invading Ukraine.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said South Africa had a vital role on the world stage as a leading voice of the Global South.

"In a moment of increased confrontation and competition, we must strengthen our partnership further," she said.

She said at talks with President Cyril Ramaphosa in Cape Town that Europe wanted to help the South African economy grow.

"Europe understands your potential," she said, sitting alongside European Council President Antonio Costa. She cited clean hydrogen, where South Africa could make use of abundant raw materials and vast renewable energy potential.

Ramaphosa said South Africa wanted Europe's support to transition to a low carbon economy and grow industry, and that it valued European support for multilateralism at a time of rising nationalism.

Romance › Re: Nigerian Lesbians Relocate Abroad, Get Married In The US by RandDigital: 1:32am On Mar 14, 2025
Chilipepper:
Amara and Olayinka Finally Tie the Knot in the US!

What started as content and cruise has become reality. Amara and her partner, Olayinka, are officially married!

The couple, Amara (Igbo) and Olayinka (Yoruba), began their relationship in Nigeria but faced constant scrutiny from netizens. Seeking a place where they could live freely, Olayinka moved to the US first, got settled, and Amara joined her in 2023.

Yesterday, Amara took to Instagram to reveal their marriage, making their love story official!
Congrats, you beat the odds and haters!
Crime › Re: Court Hears Nigerian Kidnapped SA Kid, Sent To West Africa In Container - VIDEO by RandDigital(op): 1:09am On Mar 14, 2025
Starzo:
That's enough Nigerian attention to joyfully and
gratefully masturbate on for the week
You're in my every thread Star-zombie .Love you too Star-zombie 😘🥰😂😂😂
Crime › Re: Court Hears Nigerian Kidnapped SA Kid, Sent To West Africa In Container - VIDEO by RandDigital(op): 11:42am On Mar 13, 2025
Starzo:
This is the only thing you're good. The only thing that gets your brain stimulated

Just pathetic...
Star-zombie are you done derailing my beautiful thread I created with my even more beautiful South African hands? 👐🏾🖐🏾
Crime › Re: Court Hears Nigerian Kidnapped SA Kid, Sent To West Africa In Container - VIDEO by RandDigital(op): 11:31am On Mar 13, 2025
Starzo:
Junkies making 10000% true statements

The brain of an average black San truly works in mysterious ways
Works better than one crushed in one of Hunger-geria's weekly rice stampedes.
Romance › SA Sees Marked Increase In Multiracial Households Since 2001 - VIDEO by RandDigital(op):
While a majority of households in South Africa are single-race households, there has been substantial and consistent upward trend in multiracial households, from 1.3% in 2001 to 11.4% in 2022.

This is according to the Stats SA’s “Cultural Dynamics in South Africa” report published last week.

Stats SA says the latest report provides insights into culture aspects measured in post democracy South African censuses, including language, population group, religion and marriage.

The report said race was a poignant and controversial issue in South Africa and had a long and painful history. Historically, race groups were prohibited to marry or have sexual relations with other races due to the laws introduced by the apartheid government.

These laws played a role in creating distinct family and household relations. As a result, individuals could not easily form interracial relations leading to family and household formation due to fear of being prosecuted.

Stats SA said its findings to a greater extent showed that South Africans had begun to embrace each other regardless of their race.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdezuS68bLM?si=WGd2TIKCGO8A52RZ

For the purposes of the report, multiracial households are defined as households with two or more people who are of different population groups (black African, white, coloured, Indian/Asian, and other) living together as one household.

Censuses 2001 and 2011 indicated that multiracial households were more prevalent in the Northern Cape followed by Western Cape, while Census 2022 showed a slightly different pattern. It showed multiracial households more prominent in the Western Cape with 17% followed by Gauteng with 14.6% and Northern Cape 10.6%.

Limpopo recorded the least prevalence with 0.3% in 2001 and 6.7% in 2022.

Census 2022 showed that the City of Johannesburg (Gauteng province) had the highest proportion (29.7%) of multiracial households in the metros followed by City of Cape Town (Western Cape province), with a quarter (24.5%) of households being multiracial. Metros with the least multiracial households were Mangaung in Free State province (1.4%) and Nelson Mandela Bay in Eastern Cape province (1.6%).

Results showed that multiracial households were more prevalent in urban areas and this was the case in all the three census years.

Though multiracial households were more prevalent in urban areas, non-urban areas experienced an increase of about three percentage points in mixed race households (from 14.9% 2001 to 18.2% in 2022). Stats SA said literature suggested the increase in cultural diversity was due to migration.

“An increase in multiracial households in non-urban areas in South Africa suggests that racial and ethnic diversity is no longer confined to big cities, it also shows that South Africa has undergone social transformation including cultural shifts in living arrangements across the country.”

Crime › Re: Court Hears Nigerian Kidnapped SA Kid, Sent To West Africa In Container - VIDEO by RandDigital(op): 10:47am On Mar 13, 2025
Starzo:
'Shes's a junkie' and 'her story is 10000% highly likely' in same statement.

See how irrational hatred as compromised and damaged you to the point of reasoning and talking like a complete slowpoke?

When I call the average black San a r*tarded bantu pig, it's because of the ones who behave like you.
You wanna tell me junkies don't know who their suppliers are?

They don't call you Star-zombie for nothing. Rice Stampede-gerian.
Crime › Re: Court Hears Nigerian Kidnapped SA Kid, Sent To West Africa In Container - VIDEO by RandDigital(op): 12:28am On Mar 13, 2025
Starzo:
Your irrational hatred has made you irredeemably stupid and useless
She's a junkie. Likelihood she's dealing with nigerians is very high. Therefore her story is 10,000%%% highly likely. Infact, it's scientific 😎
Crime › Re: Court Hears Nigerian Kidnapped SA Kid, Sent To West Africa In Container - VIDEO by RandDigital(op): 12:21am On Mar 13, 2025
Starzo:
Where is the NIGERIAN man and what is his name?

God go punish all of una with una useless lies
If the shoe fits...
Crime › Court Hears Nigerian Kidnapped SA Kid, Sent To West Africa In Container - VIDEO by RandDigital(op):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnfVNALt_vg?si=G2okdk2ePOR3mSAX

The eighth day of the Joslin Smith trial continues with chilling witness statements pertaining to the missing girl’s mother, Kelly Smith.

According to their accounts, Kelly is believed to have bragged about wanting to sell her child for a mere R5 000. She also claimed that a Nigerian man had taken the blonde-haired girl and was allegedly trafficked to West Africa.

Kelly, her boyfriend Jacquin “Boeta,” and her friend Steveno Van Rhyn are facing child kidnapping and trafficking charges in the trial taking place at the Saldana Bay multipurpose centre.

Joslin disappeared on 19 February 2024 at her home in the Middelpos informal settlement in Diazville.

History of the case

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VdgL3Oe5cw?si=Qv7RIFY1P2yjk1Tw

WITNESS SAYS KELLY BRAGGED ABOUT WANTING TO SELL CHILD

Taking to the stand, state witness Saldanha Bay resident and local pastor Steven Coetzee recalled a disturbing conversation he had with Kelly Smith months before Joslin’s disappearance.

Coetzee says that Kelly had bragged about allegedly receiving offers from undisclosed people who were interested in “buying” her children.

According to Coetzee, Kelly claimed that “if they came this time and didn’t have the full R20 000, she would settle for R5 000”.

"My child has made me famous'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7Sc-kOpbxE?si=xjQOs3MJWPg_rEeu

The witness claimed that Kelly then bragged about what would happen once her child was sold. He said: “She assured me that in January or February, Middelpos would look like a movie scene.

He continued: “You will see with your own eyes what will happen in Middelpos, Diazville. It will be like a movie; vehicles, pedestrians, people everywhere. They will search but won’t find anything because I will make the child go far away”.

‘TAKEN BY NIGERIAN MAN’

Teacher gives testimony

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqufTE6NBFc?si=58OCJCwpT1KzCbFZ

Another state witness, Joslin Smith’s Diazville Primary School teacher Edna Maart, claimed that Kelly Smith had confided in her that Joslin was en route to West Africa.

The alleged confession took place a few days after Joslin’s disappearance.

The teacher claims that Kelly had told her “in confidence” that she had received a call from a “Nigerian man” who claimed that he had taken Joslin Smith. The man informed her that Joslin was being stored in a container on a ship.

The man – named “Johan” – allegedly told her to “act fast”.

Kelly reportedly told the teacher that she did not mention this information to the police as she was “scared” that her community would “hurt” her.

Kelly allegedly added to the teacher: “Remember, Boeta is innocent.”

Politics › Re: This Poster Of Nigeria Is Now Circulating On Trains And Buses In London by RandDigital: 1:13am On Mar 12, 2025
The one in South Africa is a mug shot of drug dealers.
Phones › Re: Elon Musk Claims SA Blocking Starlink Because He's Not Black - TWEET by RandDigital(op): 9:22am On Mar 09, 2025
PrinceofAgoAre:
Atleast we get the chance to japa at free will ..

Can you japa without permission from your dear Lords ...

😂😂😂
Ask Elon Musk, he's the one crying about racism.

Anyway, "you japa freely". Most defeatist statement of 2025 so far. You're so brain dead! 😂😂😂
Phones › Re: Elon Musk Claims SA Blocking Starlink Because He's Not Black - TWEET by RandDigital(op): 9:21am On Mar 09, 2025
davinchecodes:
The fact the race has to be stated.
Do you know SA history, how whites gained their wealth & why it's the most unequal society on earth?

Elon Musk with all his wealth and X algorithms can't read properly. He's a racist suffering from white victimhood.
Phones › Re: Elon Musk Claims SA Blocking Starlink Because He's Not Black - TWEET by RandDigital(op): 8:28am On Mar 09, 2025
eepeepook:
I didn't mention Nigerians here. You did. As such, it's obvious you want the thread to devolve into a superiority contest. I will not grant your wish.
Useless response. Trashed 🗑️
Phones › Re: Elon Musk Claims SA Blocking Starlink Because He's Not Black - TWEET by RandDigital(op): 8:26am On Mar 09, 2025
PrinceofAgoAre:
Atleast the whites did have the south Americans forefathers eating shiit and still overtaking the country ...

😂😂😂
So says a Hunger-gerian looking for the first chance to japa to white man's land to go be a cleaner or drug dealer.
Phones › Re: Elon Musk Claims SA Blocking Starlink Because He's Not Black - TWEET by RandDigital(op):
davinchecodes:
It is true, they are demanding for him to give black people ownership of at least 25 - 40% equity .

South Africa is not only a racist country but also xenophobic.
Since when is partnership "giving" or charity? Those black partners are also investing money into the company.

Last time I checked MTN Nigeria has local shareholding. Is that also racist/xenophobic? Use your brain for once.
Phones › Re: Elon Musk Claims SA Blocking Starlink Because He's Not Black - TWEET by RandDigital(op):
eepeepook:
If it's true, which I don't believe, then it is good to see the blacks actually stand up against something. What I know them for is being passive when it involves Caucasians and up in arms when it involves fellow black people. They are as brainwashed as African Americans who act the same when it comes to race relations.
The biggest white worshippers in the world are Nigerians.

South Africans and African Americans have no choice but to keep good race relations because they're multiracial societies. It's not being "brainwashed", its just common sense.

You wouldn't know that as Nigerians because you're tribal wars are ripping your cow-ntry apart.
Phones › Elon Musk Claims SA Blocking Starlink Because He's Not Black - TWEET by RandDigital(op):
South Africa on Friday rejected a claim by multibillionaire Elon Musk that his Starlink satellite company could not operate in the country because he is not Black, and its telecoms regulator said Starlink had not applied for a licence.

In his latest rebuke of the country where he was born and went to school, Musk wrote on X, which he also owns: "Starlink is not allowed to operate in South Africa, because I'm not black".

Clayson Monyela, a senior official at the foreign affairs department, responded emphatically on the social media platform.

"Sir, that's NOT true & you know it! It's got nothing to do with your skin colour. Starlink is welcome to operate in South Africa provided there's compliance with local laws," Monyela wrote. "This is a global international trade & investment principle."

Musk appeared to be taking a swipe at local Black Economic Empowerment rules that foreign-owned telecommunications licensees sell 30% of the equity in their local subsidiaries to historically disadvantaged groups.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVxgGWmytso?si=P-e-nlX88hFfuZu5

South African technology news website TechCentral has reported that Starlink's parent company SpaceX wrote to telecommunications regulator ICASA telling it that it should rethink the 30% ownership requirement for licensees.

An ICASA spokesperson said without elaborating: "ICASA has not received any application from Starlink or SpaceX."

Communications minister Solly Malatsi did not answer a phone call seeking comment.

TechCentral has reported that Malatsi has asked ICASA to consider "equity equivalents" like skills development to allow companies like SpaceX to operate locally.

Starlink operates in many African countries, but in addition to South Africa it has faced obstacles in places like Cameroon and Namibia due to licensing disputes.

Musk attended school in the South African capital Pretoria before emigrating to the United States, where he is now a top adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump as well as the world's richest person.

Within weeks of taking office Trump has suspended U.S. aid to South Africa over its land reform policies and its genocide case against Washington's ally Israel at the World Court.

Sports › Re: Morocco 2025: Flamingos Fly Past South Africa 3-1 In Pretoria by RandDigital:
Saga16:
RandDigital, how market?

grin
Is SA immigration aware Japagerians are on the loose in the country? Who's gonna do head count back in Hunger-geria? 🫤🫤🫤
Foreign Affairs › Re: Trump Stops All Federal Funding For Aid To South Africa by RandDigital(op): 5:02pm On Mar 07, 2025
Goke7:
All because Starlink does not operate in South Africa, grin
Elon Musk doesn't wanna partner with a black local company, hence the deadlock with the SA govt.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Trump Stops All Federal Funding For Aid To South Africa by RandDigital(op): 4:40pm On Mar 07, 2025
Sonnobax15:
grin
These generation of south Africans been doing everything possible to terminate and eliminate all the things Nelson Mandela suffered and struggled for....
Mandela supported Palestine and Arafat. What are you smoking?
Foreign Affairs › Trump Stops All Federal Funding For Aid To South Africa by RandDigital(op): 4:10pm On Mar 07, 2025
The state department has ordered an immediate pause on most US foreign assistance to South Africa, according to a cable seen by the Guardian, officially implementing a contentious executive order by Donald Trump.

The directive, issued on Thursday, implements Executive Order 14204 targeting what the administration called “egregious actions” by South Africa. It orders all state department entities to immediately suspend aid disbursements, with minimal exceptions.

"To effectively implement EO 14204, all bureaus, offices and missions shall pause all obligations and/or dispersion of aid or assistance to South Africa,” reads the cable, signed by the secretary of state, Marco Rubio.

The cable follows the 7 February order, amid a broader reassessment of US foreign aid which paused certain foreign assistance pending review.

The order specifically cites “unjust racial discrimination” against white Afrikaners – descendants of Dutch colonizers who implemented the segregationist regime that denied basic rights to the Black majority until 1994.

The South African-born billionaire Elon Musk, a Trump super-ally who heads the administration’s government efficiency team and has condemned his homeland for “openly racist policies”, is widely seen as influencing the administration’s stance toward a country where white South Africans, just 7% of the population, still disproportionately control most wealth and land.

According to the cable, Rubio has delegated authority to Pete Marocco, a Trump loyalist who presided over the administration’s evisceration of foreign aid programs at USAid and the state department, to determine whether specific aid programs should continue. The guidance emphasizes there is “a very high bar for such requests”.

Only Pepfar, the US global HIV/Aids program that provides life-saving treatment to millions of South Africans, will proceed without additional review, according to the cable. All other assistance programs require special permission, even those that had received prior exceptions under the January foreign aid pause.

This is the latest sign of escalating tensions between the two generally friendly nations, starting when President Trump accused South Africa of using its new land law to discriminate against white citizens – claims the South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, rejected as misinformation.

TRUMP: Bad things are happening in SA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZM0QzYT6Aw?si=goScwPUqv1ZdtssP

The bill in question controversially permits government acquisition of private land without compensation in certain circumstances, though its supporters say such seizures would be rare and subject to judicial review.

MALEMA: We are not puppets of America

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP62HKrKpwM?si=UAAt-sE7FwObb3E3

Trump has also criticized South Africa’s leading role in its genocide case against Israel at the international court of justice, while also offering refugee status to wealthy white Afrikaners who wanted to relocate to the United States, further incensing the country.

The aid freeze also follows South Africa’s recent announcement that it is preparing a new trade proposal for the Trump administration, as officials anticipate the possible end of the African Growth and Opportunity Act – which has allowed billions in duty-free exports to the United States.

RAMAPHOSA: Let's strike a deal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1D1T2i6B6Q?si=pJXCAVDM2BAwtVRl

Earlier on Thursday, South Africa issued a statement acknowledging the US withdrawal from the Just Energy Transition Partnership (Jetp), which has canceled previously funded climate projects following Trump’s revocation of international climate finance initiatives.

The state department did not respond to a request for comment.

Foreign Affairs › Re: SA Prisoners Unhappy Over Less Chicken & Beef Meals - PICTURES by RandDigital(op): 12:51am On Mar 07, 2025
seppuku:
I am not sure what to be jealous about? I would not trade the trauma you all have been through for the dignity my generations and I will have.

It's like saying I would gladly trade off the slavery, jim crow, racism, lynching,Police brutality etc of the African Americans to be a Nigerian.

NOT IN A MILLION YEARS.!!!!
Millions of Nigerians want to migrate to SA, 300 million nigerians in Waste Africa have never seen a South African on their streets. SPEAKS VOLUMES.
Travel › Re: Nigerian Rapper, 3GAR Baby, Crashes Mclaren In An Accident In SA (Video, Photos) by RandDigital: 6:17pm On Mar 03, 2025
jaxxy:
They can stream it on Spotify from prison buy he won't be doing any lives except at 02 arena in England.

He's not a b rapper like casper.
Which O2 Arena? More like CO2 Chamber!
Travel › Re: Nigerian Rapper, 3GAR Baby, Crashes Mclaren In An Accident In SA (Video, Photos) by RandDigital: 4:19pm On Mar 03, 2025
KingCold:
He's Nigerian so he's your monkey coz this is jungle behaviour straight from Sambisa
😂😂😂
Travel › Re: Nigerian Rapper, 3GAR Baby, Crashes Mclaren In An Accident In SA (Video, Photos) by RandDigital: 4:13pm On Mar 03, 2025
jaxxy:
He's not lgbtq and doesn't do live shows. He makes his money from Spotify streams.
Didn't know prison surprise s3x only applies to lgbt people. He'll need to make money at pollsmoor prison in order to afford cigarettes, hence live performances.
Travel › Re: Nigerian Rapper, 3GAR Baby, Crashes Mclaren In An Accident In SA (Video, Photos) by RandDigital: 1:09pm On Mar 03, 2025
jaxxy:
He's on Spotify so no need for that just stream.
I'm more concerned about his live performances. Seems he'll be swapping the mic for cape gangster cucumbers 😳😳😳
Travel › Re: Nigerian Rapper, 3GAR Baby, Crashes Mclaren In An Accident In SA (Video, Photos) by RandDigital: 12:48pm On Mar 03, 2025
jaxxy:
That's good. Make sure u guys stream his songs on Spotify. Thanks
He'll sing for these wonderful cape gangsters at pollsmoor prison. Hope he can sing and give mouth action at the same time.

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