₦airaland Forum

South Africa's Advocacy group 'Women For Change'
launched a petition on October 2, trying to stop Chris Brown from performing in the country.

Six days later, the petition has 10,248 signatures and has a goal of reaching 15,000. The petition is demanding that Home Affairs revoke Brown's Visa and prevent him from performing in South Africa.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhaOdlTfZnM?si=OyNtccYsHd1uFOGU

Bulelwa Adonis, Women For Change spokesperson speaking on Newzroom Afrika addressed the backlash the group has received.

Adonis said the group doesn't practice selective activism and has one mandate which is to not support people who are violent.

“In this case, the fact that he obtained a visa to our country and the looseness in our system to allow him the accessibility to us. Considering how dire this pandemic is in our country, it is distressing and disheartening to say the least.”


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsRtlWjbjqY?si=i93W61KPFVPslUmg

Women For Change in the petition called on concert organisers Big Concerts, promoters, and the South African government to reconsider the decision to allow Chris Brown to perform in Johannesburg on December 14, 2024.

“His concert is scheduled just days after the global commemoration of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, making this event a direct insult to the millions of women and girls affected by violence in South Africa and worldwide,” said the non-profit organisation.

“Allowing a man with such a history of violence to perform in South Africa, a country grappling with one of the highest rates of gender-based violence and femicide (GBVF) in the world, sends a harmful and dangerous message. Instead of glorifying individuals with a history of abuse, we must be empowering and supporting survivors.

davidsthe:
If I'm the minister of foreign affairs this is how I go about it, I will call my SA and Senegal counterparts and Dr Adesina - SA we had an understanding with you that we'll back your candidate after we did 2 terms, Akin you know what you see in this Senegalese you want to succeed you, but SA has our right of first refusal!

You SA, we can support you for this or for the UN security council choose one, if you choose AFDB you have our Support and we'll need your support for UN security council cos we're interested too. If you choose the security council we'll support you but you will have to support the candidates we back for AFDB and other regional, continental and other multilateral bodies you have interests in. pls give us a reply in 2wks. thank you.

Senegal, we may back your candidate but you have to commit to doing very hard work to bring at least two of the brothers that left the ECOWAS to form Sahel alliance back to the fold.

Akin, we hear you, na you know wetin you see for this Senegal man however in your capacity what do you bring to the table in terms of geopolitics for the federal government? give us a response in 2wks. meeting adjourned.

Lol, you're funny 😂😂😂

Ok, as SA we'll take UNSC permanent seat for Africa. It's already in the bag because we're the only Africans in G20 (sole country) and founding member of BRICS. Thanks.

And 2nd biggest funder of AFDB even though we're a new nation 🇿🇦🏆🏆🏆

Labadi69:
So every Nigerian will now go and vote? Omo, dull people full here o

😂😂😂😂

Sepukku:
Most criminals in SA get away with crime in SA, why does your news focus on "undocumented migrants" instead of criminals in general?

There's focus on all criminals. Part of the crime fighting strategy is to reduce illegal migrants. As you said most of inmates are SAn, so that segment of the population is also being dealt with. Your issue is you want a free ride for illegals in SA or for them not to be deported.

Sepukku:
A fraudster operates using electronic devices (IP addresses e.t.c). You can track locations where they operate. You can set up surveillance, swoop in and arrest perpetrators in the act rendering the authorities enough evidence to arrest. At that point the criminals come into contact with the system and must produce papers and if not then they are finger-printed and logged into the system, processed, prosecuted and deported if need be.

Even Uya jola does a better job than your SAPS in tracking cheating partners talk less of criminals, shame.

Please Wannahowzit, let's call this what it is your people are scape-goating foreigners for the inadequacies of your government. Any sane person can see this from a mile away.

Everyone knows there's incompetence and corruption at saps & home affairs, no great revelations there. It's also no secret undocumented people easily get away with crimes. Full stop.

Sepukku:
What system do you use to track your own citizens down. Do you have GPs trackers on individuals in SA?

If 5 South African bandits wear masks and attack an innocent spaza shop looting all their goods, how does your police track them down versus arresting an open-faced Nigerian drug dealer peddling his merchandise in clear view of the community.

Keep masking Xenophobia in excuses, you cannot fool me.

How does one track down house robbers and fraudsters? Doesn't that need a level of sophisticated investigations and reliance on data? Does it not become more difficult when there is no official data of the criminal on the system?

Sepukku:
I follow all your people here in my nairaland, don't flatter yourself.

I'm more disturbed than flattered.

Sepukku:
excuses.

Do you need an ID to arrest someone comitting crime. They are all in Hilbrow neh!

You need to track them down. Most arrests don't happen on the scene of the crime dumbo.

A diplomatic row is brewing as South Africa breaks ranks with the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) over next year's election of the president of the African Development Bank (AfDB).

Sadc's preferred candidate is Zambia’s Samuel Maimbo while South African finance minister Enoch Godongwana announced this week that Pretoria was backing Swazi Tshabalala, the bank’s former vice-president who resigned this week to concentrate on her candidacy.

A South African national, Tshabalala joined the bank in 2018 as vice-president for finance and chief finance officer and was appointed as senior vice-president in November 2021. She has previously worked for top companies including Transnet, MTN, Standard Bank, SAA and Tiger Brands.

Her resignation this week immediately followed South Africa's announcement that it will lobby member countries with voting powers, including Nigeria, to back Tshabalala’s candidacy.

Outgoing AfDB president Nigerian Akinwumi Adesina steps down at the end of his second five-year term in 2025 and is believed to be backing Senegal’s Amadou Hott. The election takes place at the bank’s May AGM in Ivory Coast next year.

Godongwana told the Sunday Times that there was no requirement for member countries to back a candidate endorsed by their regional bodies.

Pretoria believes that South African and Nigeria were bound by a previous deal which saw SA backing Adesina’s first election and his re-election for a second term in return for the West African superpower’s support for a South African candidate when Adesina leaves office.

But an insider said those who reached the deal in 2015 were no longer in positions of authority given the changes in government in both countries, hence Nigerian Adesina’s backing of a Senegalese candidate. Nigeria’s support is key as it is the biggest African shareholder in the bank, followed by South Africa. The Nigerian finance ministry had not responded to questions at the time of publication.

The Sunday Times has learnt that the biggest fallout was expected between member countries of Sadc after ministers in the region chose Zambia's Maimbo as the region’s candidate at an August meeting in Zimbabwe.

Highly placed insiders told the Sunday Times that South Africa argued for a rotational system given that the last AfDB president from the region, who was elected 44 years ago, was Zambian.

“But for some strange reason, Sadc followed a new process where they interviewed candidates and they sprang this up on people at the last minute,” said a insider.

“The South African candidate was interviewed. She (Tshabalala) did really well in that interview and she outshone everybody. But they were like no, there is some other technical process that we used which therefore means that the Zambian candidate is number one, the South African candidate is number two and the Tanzanian candidate is number three.

“When South Africans inquired about this technical process, the response was that they reviewed the profiles and CVs and on the basis of that, the South African candidate becomes number two.

“They made a recommendation to the council of foreign ministers. In that council, South Africa said according to Sadc custom, we follow the principle of rotation and even on your own technical assessment, this is what you have to think of — the candidate is female, your own reports as Sadc criticise the fact that in leadership positions there are not enough women within Sadc and on the continent.

“This is from a Sadc report that we have just adopted. Here's an opportunity to endorse a candidate who is female and yet you reject her. Third she's the vice-president of the bank [before her resignation this week], she is next in line to succeed, so logically she is best placed to be there.”

Insiders said the SA government would argue for any other candidate who is not Zambian should Tshabalala’s name not be accepted. However, Sadc had “bulldozed” Maimbo’s name.

“This is not the first time that Zambia have done this to SA. With the International Court of Justice candidate as well (Dire Tladi) they did the same thing. They contested us when Sadc had endorsed our candidate.

“I think it was unanimous on our candidate and they still pursued the ICJ candidature right up until the last moment at the ICJ courts and they lost,” said a senior government official.

Godongwana would not say which countries had agreed to back Tshabalala’s name, only saying he would soon hold formal talks with his Nigerian counterpart with the aim of lobbying the western African state to back Tshabalala.

Adesina is said to be backing Hott, who is yet to receive a nomination from his home country Senegal. Other contenders include Tanzanian Frannie Léautier and Abbas Mahamat Tolli from Chad.

The bank, with headquarters in Abidjan, raises funds for development projects in Africa. It has a shareholder capital of US $318bn. The bank’s biggest shareholders in Africa include Nigeria, South Africa, Egypt and Morocco. Other major shareholders include the UK, US, Japan, Germany, China, France, Italy, Sweden, Canada and Switzerland.

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https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/news/politics/2024-10-06-south-africa-defies-sadc-on-african-development-bank-nomination/

A young bok (buck), born at one of the country's top golf estates is causing quite the stir on social media.

At the weekend, Kingswood Golf Estate in George welcomed its first black springbok, born on its sprawling estate.

In a post on social media, Kingswood Golf Estate said the delightful little animal is "one in a million", and now Netizens think he should be named after our very own Springbok rugby captain, Siya Kolisi.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2HcGKNOF74?si=RhSfMVcD0Ezm9ps7

"Saw him last night and he is beautiful. Think we must call him Siya," said Nicole De Abreu.

"Should definitely be named Siya!! Best Springbok Captain ever," commented T-Man de Klerk.

"His name should be Siya. So beautiful and precious," said Marlene de Necker.

Siya Kolosi has captained South Africa to winning two Rugby World Cup titles. The men's national rugby team is fondly known as the Springboks.

The Western Cape golf estate boasts a large herd of Springbok, often spotted along the property.

It is unknown exactly how many black springboks are prancing about in the country (the animals, not the players!) due to how rare the genetic variation is.

Winter Hoek Safaris jumped in to explain that a black springbok is not a sub-species.

"Black Springbuck were developed by selective breeding; the colour of the skin is all black except for the white facial stripe running up the front of the nose. The skin fold on the back is usually closed, but when the animal becomes excited, it thrusts it open, fanning a length of stiff black hair. Horns: Both sexes have horns," Winter Hoek Safaris explained.

Sepukku:
Wannahowzit I am beginning to suspect one gay Naija man don nyash you run.

This your vex e pass normal.

You're the one following my gay nyash in every thread 🫤🫤🫤

KingCold:
Like I said sidewalk shitter

🤣🤣🤣💩💩💩

DeeScan:
Rubbish!! ..

Wdym refined overseas..

If our football was refined overseas, tell me why the current APOTY is a local breed player - OSIMHEN or maybe you need to exact about the refined statement you used , let's understand what you're getting at ..

You that don't refined your own football overseas, why is APOTY not from your non refined overseas football ... Explain pls ..


2. Our music were never refined overseas .. our music has always been sought after in the overseas .. we got wind of that and we took advantage of that .

Go on Instagram/Facebook/YouTube and search silly music..

You'd see a Korean girl trying to famz us with our music even speaking our languages.. she basically worships our music like it's a religion ...


Kiss daniel just dropped a song call marhaba, guess what, yeah your guess is as good as mine. Go to her page and get wowed.

Lol, you're beginning to bounce off the walls - the long essays are evidence of that 😂😂😂 I've entertained you enough for the day, let me leave you with the high blood pressure.

Besides, I need my beauty sleep - it's almost midnight here in SA. As with everything else, we're even ahead of Nigeria in terms of time ⌚⏰😂😂😂🇿🇦🏆🏆🏆

DeeScan:
nah .. this ain't shiit ... Chris Brown has been speaking pidgin/yoruba in his musics.. Doesn't mean he could speak them in an actual conversation...

So does burna ...

This sames song had burna to thank for the recognition it got .. No one knew the damn thing before burna ..

Hahahaha so much for South Africa being ba huge market ..

Y'all wouldn't survive if Nigerian didn't hop on your songs..

Have some bloody respect , asswipe...

Lol, the original of this song is the one winning awards - never saw Burna on the stage to receive the awards 😢

Burna's the one who stayed up all night for weeks refining his Zulu for the superior SA musical taste. This was real desperation to penetrate highly lucrative SA market and not some tinubulated market where people can't afford tomatoes 🍅🍅🍅🤣🤣🤣

DeeScan:
Rugby world cup .. hahahaha .. how many people watch that shiit ...

I'd rather settle watching a UFC tournament cause there's no difference btw both sport.

Rugby wc is the biggest global tournament after football .. hahaha , this nigga must be some joker .. what the fvck would basketball be if rugby is the next best thing after football .. Even the tennis sport has more viewership than that shiit show of a sport .. I see why Nigeria is not really invested in it .. we go where the money is and there's clearly no good return of money investing in that kind of sport ...

Lol, what has Nigeria ever invested in?😂😂😂 Even the football and music u brag about is refined overseas. Your footballers japa to Europe and musicians to America. Not a single hospital is worthy for your politicians, they all run to Europe and even SA. I'm not surprised by your fixation on football - the poor man's sport 🇳🇬👎🏾💩💩💩

DeeScan:
nah .. he doesn't speak zulu ..

I've never heard him speak zulu .. if you had said patois .. I would've understand...


Show proof of him speaking zulu...

Behold 😂😂😂⤵️⤵️⤵️


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-RhCvYpxqc?si=0r_Is0IyXH82C1qm

Gadafii:
the white guys?

The whites are targets of a white genocide on SA farms. I know as a Nigerian white worshipper this will break your heart and you'll wanna suffer on their behalf.

Gadafii:
you mean these white s/African farmers are now zims?

This is how you lie barefaced and blame every other persons for your misfortunes 😂

The black guy is Zimbabwean and so is one of the 2 victims.

DeeScan:
Right.

Now explain to us why TYLA has been featuring American artiste, going on u.s tours and all thst shiit if your market is so huge enough .


Scratch that , why am I going to far .. explain why your artiste usually make remix of their gaddem boring amapiano song by featuring Nigerian artiste ..

Start giving explanation since your slum of country marketvis that huge.

I'm waiting

You'll wait til our artists start singing in sh1tgbo (which is a lifetime). Burna speaks very good Zulu don't he? Very good slave to SA rands 😂😂😂😂

Gadafii:
make sure you include the crimes of white south africans against the black slave, including killing them and feeding them to their pigs 😂😂

Yes we're still mourning the Zimbabwean lady who was killed by the Zimbabwean co-accused and fed to the pigs. Thanks for your prayers 😢

DeeScan:
We talking football, you talking rugby, the shiit sport. Wtf is you on 😕😕😕

Tell your Minister of Soccer to come see me, i need to educate him Rugby WC is the biggest global tournament after FIFA WC and the Olympics.

We won the Rugby WC for a record 4th time, came back with medals from the Olympics, got bronze at Afcon while Hunger-geria came with 🥚from the olympics and don't know what rugby is 🇳🇬👎🏾💩💩💩

Charmingrascal:
Hi, please which Nigerian artiste has the biggest fan base in SA?

Hi, I honestly don't know, I'm not into Afrobeats. I would guess it's Burna since he thought he could fill up a stadium 🤷🏽‍♂️ Don't know.

Gadafii:
Lazy, dirty, lying clown 🤪🤡

Four SA policemen were recently arrested for robbing a Nigerian jeweller, omo werey

Lol, just one lonely attachment? 😂😂😂 If i had to attach Nigerian crimes abroad i would fill up 100 pages of this thread at minimum. You're not persona non grata in much of the world for nothing 🇳🇬👎🏾💩💩💩

Gadafii:
Meanwhile AKA that was supposed to be their A-list artists Dem kpai am like hunters dog for streets.

Very by how people, vile lazy

Make chri brown Sha dey very careful, before them go talk say he resemble AKA😢😢

Shed tears for the lives you ruin with your drugs and yahoo in SA.

agadez007:
in essence,None

That’s all I want to hear not all these needless epistles

You just got skooled 😎🇿🇦🏆🏆🏆

agadez007:
Which South African artiste do you think can sell out any show in Nigeria
Maphorisa,Pcee who,atleast burna sold 1500 tickets,your South African artists will not even sell 100 tickets
I remember how Young stunna was disgraced in Ghana

When have you ever heard of SA artists, actors, footballers, nurses, teachers, etc going out to Africa for anything? 😂😂😂 SA market is huge enough to afford them luxury lifestyles.

Burna can keep recording in Zulu in order to make ends meet.

Rexymania:
Between you and I, who's more delusional?

I don't give a fvck about your country, your president, your mother, sister, brothers, children, neighbors your ancestors....I don't give a fvck about your country

Get a life bro and leave we Nigerians alone....we don't care


Keep chasing and hating

Wail some more.

Rexymania:
What are you even doing in our internet space if you low lives are so advance and rich

I'm here to set the record straight. Wipe off your delusions.

KingCold:
In Sport..you're only slightly better in national-team football... but you're found wanting in all sporting disciples against us.. Show me one Sport where you're world champions. I'll wait. In the recent Olympics, you came back empty-handed, so I don't know what you're smoking

in Education.. We have the best Universities on the continent, while you have the world's highest number of out-of-school children and a lower literacy rate than that of SA

As for drugs, you do know , your nationality is basically a euphemism for drug dealing right? so please

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Euphemism for fantastical corruption as well.

Rexymania:
In sport when we meet, we normally fvck you guys...all categories

By sport i suppose you mean soccer? Do you know what sport is? You returned from the Olympics empty handed🇳🇬💩💩💩. Ask your Minister of Sport Soccer to call me so i can skool him in all things sport (the current Rugby World Cup Champions) 🇿🇦🏆🏆🏆