Samuel Ndlovu
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Samuel Ndlovu
@Londza
Social & Policy Researcher - some of my tweets are social experiments/ part of my research. Enjoy travel, world music, culinary pleasures and books.
Brown Mogotsi tells us in court that he has a lot to say but will speak after. He says in his bail application there are facts. This after the state opposed his bail and a supplementary affidavit submitted to prove he did provide a legit address and did NOT bribe the IO. @eNCA #eNCA #BrownMogotsi
#TshwaneYaTima Cullinan Diamond Mine owes the city R4.3 million. We have disconnected electricity. @CityTshwane
🔸The difference between a nation becoming South Africa and a nation becoming Zimbabwe lies more in the leadership than the citizenry. Mandela left power peacefully and voluntarily after five years. Mugabe destroyed the economy and brutalized the people but refused to leave for almost four decades and had to be forced out through a coup. Mbeki left power when he had most support. Mugabe refused to leave when he lost an election and instead, unleashed an orgy of violence and chopped off people’s hands. Ramaphosa allows the opposition to oppose him and he works to be accountable. Others dismember, abduct and ban opposition politicians to avoid accountability. I could go on but the bottom line is - if your leaders still listen to the people, submit to state institutions and are prepared to leave power, be very grateful for them. Until you’ve had toxic leaders who won’t leave but instead govern through force, violence and coercion, don’t knock the citizens of nations where such toxic leaders have run amok. How many liberation wars must be fought before a nation is free? We need new leaders.🇿🇼
🔸Whatever opinion you may hold concerning the landscape, you have to accept that South Africa is a true constitutional democracy. When you have a leader who still has skin on his face and is at pains to explain himself in response to public pressure, your nation is not broken. In fact, you have no idea how lucky you are. We need new leaders.🇿🇼
STATEMENT ON PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE OF AFRICAN NATIONALS IN SOUTH AFRICA ~NELSON CHAMISA. (For immediate release) Date: 4 May 2026 1. As a Citizen movement, we extend appreciation and respect to the people and Government of the Republic of South Africa for the warmth, hospitality, and solidarity extended to African nationals in South Africa, who are in circumstances of need, exposure, and vulnerability.
Can South Africa intervene in Zimbabwe? To those who claim South Africa has not done enough on Zimbabwe, can they please articulate what enough would look like? From my vantage point, SA has done more than enough. It has carried the diplomatic burden, absorbed the economic refugees, lived with the spillover and still gets spoken of as if Pretoria has some magic lever it refuses to pull. Intervention does not remain trapped in communiqués forever. The spectrum eventually becomes force. It becomes sanctions, blockades, troops, money and very often unintended consequences. Zimbabwe tried this intervention thing in the DRC and ended up in an endless and vacuous war. Bonyongwe’s book says it cost billions in Military costs and helped push the economy towards collapse. DRC, 26 years later is still unresolved. Only America can afford these unintended consequences certainly not SA and its fragile economy. Economic sanctions by South Africa would hurt SA and Zimbabwe itself. They would disrupt trade, punish ordinary people and send even more economic refugees south. SA has worked through SADC. It helped engineer the GNU that gave Zimbabwe economic stability and growth. SADC and the Commonwealth have been scathing about our elections. Did that change anything? Even the AfDB debt and arrears process, championed by Adesina and Chissano as facilitator, has dragged on through endless structured dialogue, platforms and roadmaps, with no decisive breakthrough. AfDB itself was still calling for “more effort” in April 2025 after two years of that process. The harder truth is that Zimbabwe’s crisis cannot be outsourced to Pretoria. A neighbour can mediate, absorb pressure and plead. It cannot become the substitute government of another sovereign country. South Africa has done enough. Those who say otherwise must tell us what they actually want done, how far they are willing to go and who they expect to pay the price.
[WATCH] SAPS has welcomed Sergeant Fannie Nkosi being kept behind bars until Monday for a formal bail application. SAPS spokesperson Athlenda Mathe says this gives them time to strengthen their case to oppose bail. She adds that Nkosi had a .38 special revolver hidden in the mattress, an R5 rifle under the bed and 6 dockets for violent crimes such as CIT robberies and carjacking, stored in the backroom. #Newzroom405
WATCH | Tensions escalate at the KwaZulu-Natal Legislature after Premier Thami Ntuli survived the motion of no confidence. SABC News reporter Simphiwe Makhanya has more.
My diaspora is better than your diaspora. I don't think people understand how sad the situation is. We can't live at home because our country is cooked. When was the last time some of us saw our siblings? Our parents? But my diaspora is better than your diaspora.
I’ve just secured a series of international deals to build and maintain trains, planes and submarines. This is a fantastic win for British workers. Through global partnerships, we can secure jobs and opportunities at home.