21-day nationwide lockdown announced for South Africa

[ToxicBunny]

The only person that dumbass is going to injure is himself. Given how he's holding that gun...

Weapons competency in the saps is bloody atrocious.

 

[TheChamp]

Anyone hear about this?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1243847802897215489

I don't think anyone was fired at there, I think it is just the police scaring the crowd into creating some space between them, fake news peddlers saw an opportunity and used it to further their agenda, no doubt some will be lapping it up.

Perhaps that's why there's a convenient picture capturing the convenient moment and not a video.

 

[semaphore]

I don't think anyone was fired at there, I think it is just the police scaring the crowd into creating some space between them, fake news peddlers saw an opportunity and used it to further their agenda, no doubt some will be lapping it up.

Perhaps that's why there's a convenient picture capturing the convenient moment and not a video.

Since when is pointing a gun the correct way of doing it?

 

[TheChamp]

Since when is pointing a gun the correct way of doing it?

I don't ever remember saying anything about the wrong and the correct way of doing it?

 

[NeonNinja]

Where are they going? Shouldn't the EFF stop them like they are stopping businesses?

They are going home.

 

[NeonNinja]

I don't ever remember saying anything about the wrong and the correct way of doing it?

He's saying they're pointing a gun. As a fear tactic. Whether they shoot or not.

 

[TheChamp]

He's saying they're pointing a gun. As a fear tactic. Whether they shoot or not.

Yes, and? I thought we we were discussing the validity of the claims that people were being shot at by police in shopping queues?

 

[Fulcrum29]

OPINION ARTICLE

So whilst I'm browsing the local news I came across the article,

'Ntsiki's shocking letter to Ramaphosa is disappointing and uncalled for' - Thami Mazwai

Former journalist and anti-apartheid activist Thami Mazwai has distanced himself and his wife from a scathing open letter written by his daughter Ntsiki to president Cyril Ramaphosa.

www.sowetanlive.co.za

'Ntsiki's shocking letter to Ramaphosa is disappointing and uncalled for' - Thami Mazwai

Former journalist and anti-apartheid activist Thami Mazwai has distanced himself and his wife from a scathing open letter written by his daughter Ntsiki to president Cyril Ramaphosa.

...

Then I went to read this open letter,

Blog | Dear Mr President

www.ntsikimazwai.com

Dear Mr President

Dear Mr President

I feel like because you were never held accountable to Marikana so you didn't learn the lesson and now you're about to repeat the mistake on a larger scale. The fact that you broke up the company and sold it off essentially means that you ran away. The families of Marikana can ONLY remember you for how you impacted and changed their lives for the worst. You didn't fix anything... You ran away.

Here we are again at the same place. In a different way but it's the same lesson. You have a tendency of putting money ahead of your own people. You have a tendency to appease the white master at the expense of your people. You will never be able to rationalize why you're a billionaire in such a poverty stricken country and we can't point to anything you have created. Mr president you are part of the capitalist problem that oppresses Africans on this continent.

Your white solutions are not going to work on African people. We do not have equal footing. Lucky you, 21 days will do NOTHING to your livelihood, for the vast majority of us Africans, this 21days is the difference between making ends meet and bankruptcy. You live in your nice big house in Sandhurst while the vast majority of us, in just one of your rooms we have to fit almost 10people. You planned this quarantine from a place of privilege where you didn't consider the poverty on the ground. Have you ever been into a Squatter Camp? That's where a lot of your people live, because instead of getting us our land back in 94, you anc comrades sold us for big houses in the North and German cars.

YOU can afford not to work for 21days, Mr President, we can't.

You have a car for you to adhere to one person per car, Mr Ramaphosa the majority of your people are stacked up in dehumanizing cramped up taxis and busses. Mr President you have never had to be squashed up in masihlalisane 4 4 so you are in no position to talk so Big. To a lot of us you are nothing but a life version of Seargant Sabela on Sarafina. Sigh.

Mr President you have now let loose an untrained army to go play power games in the townships. I am yet to see the army terrorize the elite in suburbia but it's Day 2 of the quarantine and I am already seeing videos of army personelle abusing black people. You said spaza's remain open but it doesnt seem to be the case.

Now let's address the fattest and pinkest elephant in the room. Mr President the people who are gaining the most financially from this Lock down is white big business. Again we find you here in the middle of a situation where whites are benefiting while your people suffer? We are seeing the shopping stores owned by your white associates..... Their stock is being wiped out at the speed of lightening. This is BILLIONS of money they are making. BILLIONS. On Black Friday they often report that they make more money in one day than they do in a month. That's millions in one day. This period of panic buying has lasted more than one day, Mr president your white friends are making a lot of money from this.... How are they giving back to the country in this time of crisis? Pls don't tell me about the money they donated because that money is paying for itself in profits. We are paying for our own donation. Mr president how much are your white friends paying the tellers for risking their lives in this time? Or are the billions being made coming to you and them? I'm just asking. Because to me it looks like you have sold the lives of the staff of checkers, shoprite and woolies. They can get sick as long as your masters get paid. Mr President I don't understand your leadership.

Mr President what should we do with our bills month end? Most of us live from hand to mouth to be honest. So did you have a plan in place for us? How do we pay rent, electricity and water when you called for our work to be canceled but you continue and will earn your big salaries from MULTIPLE 'BEE' incomes? I understand you MPs earn just under R100 000 a month so it's no wonder we don't see panic in your eyes.

You told people to remain home but a lot of people in Jozi are migrant laborers. I'm so confused. Were we all supposed to board our private aeroplanes like your friends and go back to the homelands?

You have put us in a scary position where once the Africans start getting hungry we are gonna have a Marikana part2 because indla ibanga ulaka........

I am not scared of Corona but I am scared of the instability this period of hunger can create for our country.

Mr PRESIDENT besides closing our taps of small income what is your PLAN?
HOW do we move forward financially?

I ask you with humility and respect

Ntsiki Mazwai

*sidenote:
Mr President don't be fooled by the silence, don't think us women didn't notice when you and Mr Malema protected each other when the domestic violence smoke came up.

and do note that her open letter is currently being championed on social media.

**** me.

 

[TheChamp]

OPINION ARTICLE

So whilst I'm browsing the local news I came across the article,

'Ntsiki's shocking letter to Ramaphosa is disappointing and uncalled for' - Thami Mazwai

Former journalist and anti-apartheid activist Thami Mazwai has distanced himself and his wife from a scathing open letter written by his daughter Ntsiki to president Cyril Ramaphosa.

www.sowetanlive.co.za

Then I went to read this open letter,

Blog | Dear Mr President

www.ntsikimazwai.com

and do note that her open letter is currently being championed on social media.

**** me.

That woman is not okay, someone should tell her there's more to being an activist that picking fights all the time.

 

[Fulcrum29]

They are going home.

The government should have organised provincial lockdowns and arranged transportation prior to the lockdown. Top priority is to secure the provinces, then metropolitans and districts. It is about containment.

I blame this on the government who didn't provide proper consultation unless you are a government supplier. We need a lockdown, but it came too quick without organisation.

 

[Swa]

The ignorance is mind-boggling. If she gets her wish black people will suffer the most. And everyone is struggling under this. Edcon will likely close its doors for good. Checkers is possibly making just enough to stay afloat.

 

[Mike Hoxbig]

The ignorance is mind-boggling. If she gets her wish black people will suffer the most. And everyone is struggling under this. Edcon will likely close its doors for good. Checkers is possibly making just enough to stay afloat.

Non-essential stores are struggling, but Checkers is killing it right now...

 

[Hamster]

I read more of that crap than I should've.

 

[Temujin]

OPINION ARTICLE

So whilst I'm browsing the local news I came across the article,

'Ntsiki's shocking letter to Ramaphosa is disappointing and uncalled for' - Thami Mazwai

Former journalist and anti-apartheid activist Thami Mazwai has distanced himself and his wife from a scathing open letter written by his daughter Ntsiki to president Cyril Ramaphosa.

www.sowetanlive.co.za

Then I went to read this open letter,

Blog | Dear Mr President

www.ntsikimazwai.com

and do note that her open letter is currently being championed on social media.

**** me.

Stopped at first 'white'.... not sure how shutdown equates to appeasing the 'white master', whatever, racists alway gotta racist

 

[semaphore]

Yes, and? I thought we we were discussing the validity of the claims that people were being shot at by police in shopping queues?

No I couldn’t care about the shooting, you don’t point a gun at anyone. Especially people trying to buy food.

 

[Craig_]

OPINION ARTICLE

So whilst I'm browsing the local news I came across the article,

'Ntsiki's shocking letter to Ramaphosa is disappointing and uncalled for' - Thami Mazwai

Former journalist and anti-apartheid activist Thami Mazwai has distanced himself and his wife from a scathing open letter written by his daughter Ntsiki to president Cyril Ramaphosa.

www.sowetanlive.co.za

Then I went to read this open letter,

Blog | Dear Mr President

www.ntsikimazwai.com

and do note that her open letter is currently being championed on social media.

**** me.

Dumb cow, what else could Cyril have done, let them be and have them die and then you will complain even more? Now is the time to work together, not play politics.

 

[ShaunSA]

OPINION ARTICLE

So whilst I'm browsing the local news I came across the article,

"You have a tendency of putting money ahead of your own people. You have a tendency to appease the white master at the expense of your people. You will never be able to rationalize why you're a billionaire in such a poverty stricken country and we can't point to anything you have created," Ntsiki wrote.

Is she saying his kids aren't his?

 

[Willie Trombone]

Anyone hear about this?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1243847802897215489

LMAO.... Is that how our cops learn to use a rifle?

 

[Willie Trombone]

I don't think anyone was fired at there, I think it is just the police scaring the crowd into creating some space between them, fake news peddlers saw an opportunity and used it to further their agenda, no doubt some will be lapping it up.

Perhaps that's why there's a convenient picture capturing the convenient moment and not a video.

It's not OK to point a firearm for fun.

 

[Willie Trombone]

Dumb cow, what else could Cyril have done, let them be and have them die and then you will complain even more? Now is the time to work together, not play politics.

Black privilege. I love the way she thinks she's a crusader against white privilege when she can't see the wood for the trees in her own back yard of spoiled brat upbringing. She is a classic example of someone who was given far too much privilege. Why anyone would want to air her views is beyond me. Toxic.