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Flangelo12:
I've been to South Africa several times.

You are far feom friendly.

Where in SA? Who were you hanging out with? Context matters.

This Nigerian guy on Arise News is a successful content creator in SA. Says he doesn't experience xenophobia or hostility.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9m7QMCM5j8?si=rC6LnBBdavWnPbYR

Flangelo12:
Beautiful country terrible people.

We're some of the coolest, most friendly people on earth, tourists will tell you that - reason we're among Africa's top 3 tourist destinations (the other 2 being closer to Europe in North Africa).

Just protecting our beautiful country mehn.

Africa's most beautiful country 🇿🇦

[WATCH] Visit South Africa advert featuring Trevor Noah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6scLtB0C38?feature=shared

South Africa has been named Africa's most beautiful country in 2026 by global travel authority Rough Guides, making it the only African nation to feature among the world's 20 most beautiful countries.

The accolade recognises South Africa's rare combination of landscapes packed into a single destination. White-sand beaches, ancient mountain ranges, sweeping wildlife reserves, scenic road routes and one-of-a-kind floral scenery all contributed to the country earning its place on the prestigious list.

The Western Cape drew particular praise, with Cape Town's Table Mountain, dramatic coastlines and whale-watching opportunities singled out as standout features. The Garden Route, where mountains meet the ocean at nearly every turn, further cemented the province's reputation as one of the continent's most breathtaking regions.

Beyond the Cape, South Africa's mountain landscapes also impressed. The Drakensberg and the ancient Makhonjwa Mountains offer some of Africa's most dramatic scenery, reflecting a geological history stretching back billions of years.

Kruger National Park remained a major drawcard, offering visitors the chance to encounter the Big Five across vast, undisturbed wilderness.

Then there is Namaqualand, which transforms seasonally from a dry, arid plain into a vivid carpet of wildflowers, creating one of the country's most distinctive natural spectacles.

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Emmamay10:
That road is a public asset, which is not meant for gays alone. Putting the rainbow colors there portray bias to non-gay. Gays should live their lives without infringing on other people's way of life.

This is a part of town that celebrates LGBTQ people and this crossing is approved by the city.

Don't christians occupy streets handing out pamphlets or preaching - and broadcast their sermons on loudspeakers disturbing public peace?

Emmamay10:
LGBTQ+ are free to live their life as people, but it becomes a problem when the idea is being foisted on everyone.

So gays should live in the shadows?

Don't challenge norms. Stay in a corner. Don't be seen. Shut up.

Cape Town’s iconic rainbow pedestrian crossing has been targeted twice in a matter of days, with religious messages painted across the LGBTQ+ landmark in Green Point.

The first act of vandalism happened over the weekend, leaving significant scuffed out black marks across the crossing and the word “Jesus” painted over its rainbow colours.

Ward 115 councillor Ian McMahon confirmed the damage and said city teams moved quickly to repair the site.

Because not all the specialist colours needed to restore the full rainbow were available, the crossing was temporarily repainted bright pink.

“The rainbow has not disappeared permanently,” McMahon said, explaining that replacement colours had been ordered and were expected to take about three months to arrive.

The temporary pink crossing was then vandalised again, with the words “Perversion, Romans 1:24-27” and “Jesus is Lord” painted across the surface.

Images of the second incident circulated online, prompting further anger from LGBTQ+ residents and allies.

MambaOnline reported that a man was arrested in connection with the second incident, although official details around that arrest have not yet been independently confirmed.

It is also unclear whether the same person was responsible for both attacks.

HOSTORY OF THE RAINBOW CROSSING

Cape Town installed the rainbow crossing in 2022 on Somerset Road, between Alfred Street and Dixon Street, in an area long associated with LGBTQ+ venues, nightlife and community spaces.

At the time, Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis said the crossing was intended to signal that everyone should feel welcome in a city that embraces diversity.

It quickly became one of the most recognisable LGBTQ+ landmarks in the area.

It also attracted opposition almost immediately.

The African Christian Democratic Party unsuccessfully called for its removal, while in 2023 politician Mehmet Vefa Dag encouraged supporters to help him paint over the crossing with black paint.

His planned protest ultimately fizzled, with no supporters turning up. Instead, LGBTQ+ community members and allies gathered at the crossing in solidarity.

The latest vandalism has again highlighted the tension between Cape Town’s visible queer community and those who oppose public LGBTQ+ representation.

The religious language used in both incidents has also drawn criticism from people who say faith is being weaponised against queer communities.

For now, the city says the crossing will remain pink until the specialist paint needed to restore the original design arrives.

Then the rainbow will return.

And after being targeted twice in days, that restoration will carry even more meaning than before.

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Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden joined the UK and France in confirming plans to introduce restrictions on trade with settlements, according to a joint statement from the countries' foreign ministers.

Welcome to the club guys, we welcome your membership 🇿🇦🏆✊🏾

IronGalaxy:
its all they know, you'd swear a white person was god with these ones.. there's a video of a white person in Lagos, they are begging him for money, harrassing him at the same time, they're busy stroking his hair like, urgh.. embarrassing stuff

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MIKOLOWISKA:
the white man generates the 12% not the lazy blacks

Excuse for everything - white man, white man...

I don't know if you're all white worshippers or just plain old envious.

helinues:
You are just one cheap attention seeking guy because you ignored this same comments attached below I said about the South Africans

As for the Orania, that's only popular place but there are more areas. Is there even any sense in any part of South Africa not being allowed by the blacks even if it's just one street. The same white people have no restrictions to any place in the same country

Why should you be a slave in your own country

It's clear you know nothing about Orania, South Africa's transition to democracy and the peace negotiations and self-determination.

Keep going up and down Nairaland spewing your ignorance and talking about people being slaves, when you're a slave yourself to ignorance.

helinues:
You are only justifying what I am saying as long as there are places the black South Africans can go in their own country. Whatever excuse epistle is irrelevant

Which credit should I give to the black South Africans that made both parents and their children to be looting others people's business?

Please make it sensible to me

It was Mandela and the negotiators that agreed to Orania as part of peace negotiations. Wasn't he the only sensible black South African according to all you Nigerians?

Again I ask you - do you know what Orania is? I see you going up and down talking about whites only areas in SA. Do you actually know what you're talking about or are you just a propaganda and fake news victim like 90% of Nigerians?

This Orania of yours doesn't even have 5 streets. No black person bothers to live there when there's big and beautiful South Africa.

IronGalaxy:
it is envy..

Indeed. We're told everyday South Africans envy Nigerians but no one ever speaks about the envy Nigerians hold for South Africans. That's why everything good black South Africans do or have the Nigerians have to give credit to the white man. It's a pull him down syndrome - a coping mechanism otherwise their jealousy will kill them 😂😂😂🤡

helinues:
So did I mention you on the said thread, what exactly is the trolling for?

Which of the facts I dropped on that thread do you want to dispute as you haven't disputed with your epistle.

Are the whites not the one controlling over 70% wealth of South Africa?

Can black South Africans go to some white areas without being shot or probably killed?

Which whites only areas other than Orania are you talking about? And wasn't Orania formed during the negotiations during the transition to democracy? Do you even know what Orania is and what it symbolizes?

And what evidence do have blacks will be shot if they go there - has it ever happened?

First part of your response is addressed in the OP, if you know how to read between the lines. There's historical inequality but you're ignoring the redress.

Why are you reluctant to credit black South Africans for anything good as Nigerians? Could it be envy?

CodeTemplar:
Whatever little stride that has veen achieved over 30 years is down to the whites who generate three-quarter if the wealth. Yes or No.
ANC is almost like cummunist system as it stands right now.

Where do you get this figure? Supply evidence.

SA has a department of trade and industry which taxes local and foreign companies, also attracts investments into the country - SA among the top 2 destinations for foreign investment in Africa.

Tourism is now one of the largest sectors of the economy bypassing manufacturing and agriculture. SA is a top 3 tourist destination in Africa.

Black middle class is the largest on the continent and bypasses that of whites.

So again, I plead with you to substantiate your claim.

helinues:
Please could you tell me precisely what you need my validation for about your opinion?

Why are you so cheap with your attention seeking, a South African trolling on Nigeria forum.

Guy, you really have a big problem oo

Don't pretend like you weren't just bashing black South Africans now on that other thread about the real size of Africa.

Now I'm presenting FACTS and not hogwash like you two, and playing d.umb.

Chucks13:
See this one what is you Black lazy SA contribution to Africa?

All your big cities skylines owned by pink colour claiming whire SA.

All your major existence is the hands of the pink SA.

Black SA are useless to Africa so pls go off our map we do not need you that is just the truth..

Plssss let proper Black talk not yu made in China blacks that exist in SA with no root and no identity..

Abeg shift...

Cough....

Just dropping this here for all the white worshippers...

And for posterity.

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South Africa's former liberation movement, the African National Congress (ANC), has been in power since the end of brutal white minority rule system, apartheid, in 1994.

These are 10 of some of the greatest achievements by black majority rule, published ten years ago by an independent media group, BusinessTech.

ACHIEVEMENTS

1. Electricity – Approximately 12 million households have access to electricity, seven million more than in 1994.

2. Water – Approximately 93% of South Africans had access to potable water last year, compared to 62% in 1994.

3. Land and economic transformation – Nearly eighty thousand land claims, totaling 3.4 million hectares, have been settled and 1.8 million people have benefited.

4. Housing – Nearly 500 informal settlements have been replaced with quality housing and basic services. Three million free houses have been built, benefiting more than 16 million people.

5. Education – More than nine million children attend no-fee schools, while 9 million children are also provided with free meals at school.

6. Healthcare – South Africans are healthier and are living longer. The average life expectancy has moved from 53 years to 62 years of age and beyond.

7. Social welfare – The country has seen a dramatic is the rise in the number of recipients of social grants, from 2.4 million in 1996 to 17 million in 2016.

8. Sanitation – In 1994, only 50% of households had access to decent sanitation. This is up to 80%.

9. Black middle class – South Africa has seen strong growth in the black middle class, believed to have surpassed that of white South Africans several years ago already.

10. Literacy – In total, 92.9% of South Africans can read and write.

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Chucks13:
You are very correct but excluding South Africa. How they didn't cut South Africa off from Africa map is upsetting me badly I want them.out of our continent they don't deserve to be here.

Yes please, we'll be happy to leave with 12% (an eighth) of Africa's total GDP 🇿🇦🏆

Africa will further be impoverished without us.

IronGalaxy:
Who's "killing " black Africans?? Please kindly provide the death toll.. the problem with you weirdos is you dont consume credible media, you watch social media reels and listen to your propagandist media.. we dont go around killing black Africans, thats just not happening.. those foreigners would have fled on their own if that was the case but as things stand theyre refusing to leave why? .. would you fight tooth and nail to remain in a country where you are hunted like animals..come on now!

Can you please stop shoving your Chidinma fraud on my throat.. !! She's your beauty queen, she has nothing to do with us..

While you're at it, also stop bombarding me with white people talk, abeg... I see white people alll the time.. they aren't special to me.. they are an obsession to you, so please, im bored already

If you cared about the truth as you claim, you'll stop acting oblivious to the fact that your people are a criminal nuisance in Sourh Africa and thats the major reason they're widely unliked. The same things they do in India, they also do in South Africa, add to that, they are obnoxious, loudmouthed, arrogant, rude, lack accountability and humility.. so cut the victim act, you're not victims

Listen to the latest podcast of BBC World Questions. The show is in Nigeria and the chosen theme is misinformation. That tells you a lot about the alarming rates of fake news in Nigeria.

Mirasteel:
This xenophobic people won't leave us, you told us to leave your country yet you don't want to leave our forum.

So your government convinced you guys there are no more Nigerians in SA after repatriating a meagre 1000 people? 🫤

Official stats put the number of Nigerians in SA at around 35,000 meaning after repatriation there are still 34,000 left.

Unofficial stats are over 800,000 meaning there are still 790,000 left.

So there are at least tens of thousands of Nigerians in SA interested in my threads if you are not.

epainos:
I do not support Nigeria. I have written about it numerous times, including here. However, you can see that this op is obsessed with Nigeria. And then I realized that is how most of them are.

They sent people away; should not they let peace reign? If they are serious about removing all traces of what foreigners did poorly, it will take five years. More will come. Must he continue to push it in the face of the people? A mature mind would keep the news low-key. But they want to confront us and show us that they are on top of their game. They want to show us that they are better at everything, including sports. And the way they do it no longer promotes healthy competition. It is an unhealthy obsession.

We are very accommodating. If we were South Africans, we would have descended on Seu.n in Otta and told them to stop promoting their news here. Do you think they will tolerate us on their blogs or forums? But mods are constantly pushing their news to the front page in order to get more clicks. Lol. South Africans would not put such news on the front page. I am not against Seun moving their news to the front page. And if I had written anything against it, it would be an outburst at the moment. But, honestly, I have nothing against it. Allow them to freely communicate.

So I will keep reminding him of what you referred to as the past, which is clearly the future. You call $30 billion plus 300 passports the past. Do you even understand what you are saying? Why do you think Bianca Ojukwu told BAT not to say anything to that small boy (their foreign minister), their president...rasta, whatever his name is, sent.

Ghana requested that the African Union include South Africa's actions on the agenda for the next conference in 2027. Did not you hear how South African representatives bullied Ghana there? Right on the spot. I blamed the Ghanaian president for giving that boy (the country's foreign minister) an audience. However, as the meeting neared its conclusion, Nigeria brought up the same issue again. Dem no born them to talk anyhow to Nigeria. Lol. Personally, I was expecting them to trash Nigeria like they did Ghana. They did not. Why should they? Dem no born them well. Yes na. If BAT had given that boy an audience, he would have had the audacity to trash us, just like they trashed Ghana. We did not touch any of their investments here. You believe that if we kick them out today, it will have no more of an impact on them than it did on us?

Guy....you do not understand that South Africa has so much to lose from Nigeria, whereas Nigeria has too little.

He knows it is the truth. And $20 billion, which is now $40 billion or more, is not a joke. It would cover everything they claimed we did wrong, and we would have billions in change. Should they not use their heads?

Aside from that, what is the value of a Nigerian passport? Do you understand what that is? Not to mention over 300. Otherwise, they would remain slaves in that location. Very ungrateful people.


When I was nice to him, that boy would argue with me with such vehemence. I was even reasonable and spoke like you. I was not a supporter of Nigeria, but that boy has an unusual obsession.

I am going to mention him here so he knows I am still around. I am sure he went to check. Their generation cannot repay what Nige4ia did for them. As in, no matter what.

@ RandDigital

I was at an event in Moscow around 2009, and you should see how the Liberian ambassador knelt before the Nigerian ambassador, General Shelpidi.....mehn. Everyone was moved. Many ambassadors were present, including those from the United States and all of the G7 countries. General Shelpidi was the ECOMOG chief from 1998 to 1999, so the woman was aware of what he, other chiefs, and Nigerian military personnel did there.

Nigerians also travel there to commit crimes. We are everyplace, but we recognize that this is a fundamental issue that Africans must continue to address. Have the rest gotten over it?

South Africa is fine because the whites control the economy. Let the whites leave, and we will see what happens to the place. But the whites are not going anywhere. They will simply seize the political power of the nation.

Now that they have played into the hands of their enemies, they will soon realise that this uproar was a planned tool to remove the foreigners backing the back South Africans. Just wait. Give it just 10 years and you will see that the white will hijack the political power again.

And then, thats when they will know what is modern slavery. Then, I want to see the Nigerian president who will give them $1.

Nigeria is navigating the afterwards of colonisation even after over 60 years. We arent getting it right. So, the black South Africans think its a joke. And they have the white still with them. In our case, they all left. But those ones are there. Yet, they cant see.

Illiteracy is a disease. These black South Africans are short sighted, if not, how can they not see that the Africans they chase away are their shields? What they should have done is to manage the issue. Should rhey deport massively? Yes. But not to the stage of attacking and killing them. Rhey even sent Nigeria message that we are owing them money again for the repatriation logistics. I laughed. Thats a natin we supported with $40plus worth today. Even this Randal of whatever his name is called it an audio help. Lol. Over $20B+ in 90s. Christ. Nigeria is too generous. If he was raised in slavery, he wouldn't have got the gut to say so.

They are complaining foreigners too their jobs. Dont worry. The whites will deploy robots to replace them soon, and we will see who they will complain to. If they cant use their heads now, it means they dont use their intuitive part of their brains. So, I dont see them making sound human judgement which is the most important skill in the future because robots and agents are taking over repetitive and logical tasks.

So, I am going to keep reminding them. Let them know that we are ahead of them. We are navigating through years of internal destruction the colonial masters left behind. It is not easy. But they still habe them there. Even they did not release their economical power.

I dont get it. They went after fellow blacks who were doing low class jobs there. Lol. It means they are all low classed set. Gat it? They just cant near the whites. If they arr more into high skilled jobs, they wont ask the foreigners to leave. Cos they will be afraid of who to do the low skilled jobs. But they are mostly low skilled. Skills that robots can easily replaced. Jobs that robots can take over tomorrow as im talking. It takes juat one white president to do it. Lol.

So. Oga...I am going to be polite with you. I value what Nigeria did for them. It seems you dont know...it is why you said it is in the past. Which past? 20Busd. Are you for real?

Goodluck to them.

This is some 50 pages...

WHY NIGERIA, WHY NOW

Nigeria has proven a brutal market for ride-hailing economics. Fuel prices have climbed by roughly 580% since President Bola Tinubu took office, squeezing driver margins on a platform that, notably, never introduced cash payments in a famously cash-reliant economy. Layer on repeated driver strikes over commission rates and a currency in freefall, and the math simply stopped working.

This isn’t an isolated retreat either. Nigeria and Uganda mark Uber’s third and fourth African exits in under two years, following its departure from Côte d’Ivoire in 2025 and Tanzania in January 2026, the latter after regulators mandated fixed government-set fares. Uber now operates in just four African countries: Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa.

WHERE SOUTH AFRICA FITS IN

Here’s the part locally that should raise eyebrows: South Africa isn’t just surviving Uber’s African retreat, it’s being treated as the exception. As recently as March 2026, Uber pledged a R5 billion ($313 million) investment in South Africa over three years, its largest single commitment anywhere on the continent, announced at the South Africa Investment Conference.

The contrast is telling. South Africa offers Uber relative currency stability, stronger road infrastructure, higher average fares, and a regulatory environment that, following last year’s National Land Transport Amendment Act, has moved toward formalising rather than squeezing the e-hailing sector.

THE TAKEAWAY

Uber’s Nigeria exit is a reminder that global platforms don’t stay loyal to markets that stop being profitable, no matter how large the user base.

South Africa currently ticks the boxes Nigeria couldn’t.

But driver commission disputes, fuel costs and currency pressure aren’t unique to Nigeria. If those dynamics ever tilt here, this week’s headlines out of Lagos and Kampala offer a preview of how quickly a “committed” market can become an exited one.

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IronGalaxy:
South Africa always makes top 4, top 3, top 10. We are the most successful African nation in pageantry if im not mistaken..correct me

Anything outside top 10 is beneath us 😎😅

Imalwayshorny:
How's the power load shedding in South Africa e sure for me say na generator you use charge your phone today

My load shedding app...

Happy viewing to you over there in darkest Africa 🇳🇬

Sleekfingers:
😏😏😏😏😏😏

Must African black women wear wig ? Can't they leave their natural hair ?
Wearing wig up and down like mad women for Yaba.

I'm also baffled. This year SA contestant retrogressed.

IronGalaxy:
No matter she looked, you were still gonna insult, for the mere fact shes South African.. we give you heart palpitations Price for success I guess

She went all the way to top 4 out of how many nations, possibly over 100? 🇿🇦🏆🏆

How far did Miss Naija go with her lawn dress? Must they always wear their flag - will they forget they are Tinubu-gerians😂

ColdHunter Imalwayshorny

South Africa - top tier nation in pageantry since time immemorial 🇿🇦. Always representing and expected at minimum to be in the top 10 in every single global contest👑👑👑 Argue with your keyboard if you don't know history.

Congrats to the top 4🇿🇦, all from the global south and 2 from Africa ⭐

Karma is a beach indeed for Isra-hell 🇮🇱👎🏾

illicit:
Na this kain news dey make randdigital 3rd leg erect...

I must say you guys are pros at own goals.