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- Football,⚽️ Politics●,Knowledge🌿
Katılım Eylül 2020
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@blackculer Still remember when culers called Xavi racist for choosing cubars or him😭
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Every Amakhosi supporter has a story.
The taxi driver debating the XI. The teacher in the jersey under her blazer. The nurse streaming between rounds. The MD with the Khosi scarf in the boardroom drawer.
From the shop floor to the corner office, you are this club.
Happy Workers' Day, Khosi Nation. 💛🖤
#Amakhosi4Life #WorkersDay

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@denny4real_ @BarcaUniversal Sure this season we were expecting more😭😅
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@FCBGentleman @BarcaUniversal Yeah. Hansi Flick blew our minds in his first season. That offside trap working beautifully on Mbappe🤣 And Rapha was great last season. I didn’t get all that entertainment this season.
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‼️This Barcelona league season has been better than last season in practically every metric:
- Last season, Barça won the league with 2 matches to spare. This season, they can secure it with 4 matches remaining
- Last season, the team ended with 88 points. This season, they already have 85 points with 5 matches remaining
- Last season, the team conceded 39 goals. This season they have conceded 30 goals with 5 matches remaining

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Dear mothers, let us vote! November 4th 2026 ❤️✊🏽🇿🇦 🗳️ youtu.be/DZdK9TUQteQ

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SABC News@SABCNews
BREAKING NEWS | President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced that the Local Government Elections will be held on November 4, 2026. For more visit sabcnews.com
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@denny4real_ @BarcaUniversal The reason we enjoyed last season was because everything that happened was beyond our expectations,.
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@BarcaUniversal I enjoyed last season more. Those clasicos we won over Madrid 👌🏾🔥
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@Julius_S_Malema 5 years, 8 months and 27 days, still most people don't understand this post😭
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@GovernmentZA Proof that our system prioritize, employment opportunities over income levels
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📈 PROGRESS UPDATE: Presidential Youth Employment Intervention
What's been achieved so far?
🔹 5.7m+ young people accessing opportunities
🔹 2.36m+ temporary earning opportunities created
🔹 Exceeding the 5 million target
Building pathways for South Africa's youth.
#PYEI #GovZAUpdates

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Payday in South Africa: A 5-day countdown!!!
60% of South Africans are flat broke within 5 days of getting paid. Your salary isn't really a salary anymore, its a transit lounge.
↔️ Money lands, waves goodbye, and goes straight to creditors.
FNB & Standard Bank data backs this up. The numbers aren't pretty.
The middle class has it the worst tho:
📈Top earners (R35k+) are burning 85% of take-home pay just to service debt. Not save. Not invest. Just... survive what they already owe. (DebtBusters latest report if you don't believe me)
📍 And for the other 25 days of the month? Unsecured credit. Store cards. Debt to pay off debt. Capitec said it themselves
Unsecured lending is growing because people aren't borrowing for luxuries anymore, they borrowing to eat.
Too "rich" to qualify for state help. Too broke to handle a single emergency without taking out another loan.
South Africa didn't create a middle class. It created a debt class that looks middle class.


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It all starts with a debut ✨
Three years on from his @LaLiga debut, Lamine Yamal is the first athlete to receive the Laureus World Young Sportsperson of the Year Award
#Laureus26

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@Our_DA DA tryna entering the conversation after seeing beautiful work done by Jacinta
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Winnie Madikizela-Mandela warned Nelson Mandela as early as 1990 about a negotiated CODESA settlement.
Mama Winnie was clear that the path of negotiation Mandela was on was a compromise that preserved the economic structures of Apartheid while only changing political governance.
She believed the ANC leadership, led by Mandela and Oliver Tambo at the time, was trading away the possibility of genuine economic transformation for a political handover of power.
She predicted that within 20 years, the same poor Black South Africans who fought Apartheid would be back in the streets against the ANC itself, carrying the same demands for land, jobs, housing, and dignity.
By many measures, her prediction proved accurate. For instance, miners striking against poverty wages were shot by an ANC government in 2012, while protesting for the dignity the ANC had promised.
Mama Winnie told Mandela that he was giving the people a “dummy freedom” and that this would backfire. It did when the ANC finally lost its parliamentary majority.
Interestingly, Mama Winnie was echoing Frantz Fanon’s argument that political decolonisation without economic decolonisation leaves the colonial structure intact, merely with new faces at the top.
In The Wretched of the Earth, Fanon warned that the “national bourgeoisie” who take over after independence often merely replace the colonial masters, inheriting the colonial machinery rather than dismantling it.
By adopting the existing financial structures and legal frameworks protecting established property rights, South Africa’s transition created a scenario where political power shifted, but the socio-economic hierarchy remained untouched. This created the exact catastrophe Fanon described, a state that is sovereign in name, yet structurally constrained by old economic forces beyond its control.
Now, it’s true that the ANC was threatened with civil war and economic collapse, but Mama Winnie still argued that by prioritising stability and investor confidence, the ANC leadership was sacrificing economic freedom at the altar of investor confidence and giving up human rights to protect property rights.
Needless to say, upholding property rights meant that the spatial and economic layout of Apartheid, i.e. the “township economy” vs. the suburbs remained static.
The point here is that Mama Winnie’s warning to Madiba exposes how the very movement purported to have broken political chains willingly created its own economic handcuffs.
By prioritising a negotiated settlement that left Apartheid-era structures untouched, the ANC inherited a state without inheriting its wealth, while poor were forced to pay the price twice, first under undemocratic White rule and today under a government they elected.
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min 87; Leo Messi dances around the entire Madrid defence before slipping the ball past Casillas to score a wonderful goal #fcblive
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🚨🇧🇷 Xavi: “I was the one who told the club to sign Raphinha. I wanted him already when he was in Portugal, I was at Al Sadd…”.
“I remember a conversation with Raphinha when he was feeling frustrated. I told him; Rapha, I signed you for 5 years, calm down! We trust you”.
“He’s now exploded at Barça, I’m so happy”.

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