unfathomable

“My kids are being bullied in school,” says Peter Odike, a Nigerian-born South African, as anti-immigrant tensions rise in South Africa. Naturalised in 2006, he says citizenship hasn’t shielded him from harassment.

I can’t bring myself to fight for young people to own spaza shops and work on farms at this time. I’m more concerned about the wealth that is concentrated at the top by a minority that does not operate as a patriotic bourgeoisie. I can’t bring myself to fight for crumbs.

It is Time For the Senate to Withdraw Licenses from South African Companies Like MTN and DSTV - Oshiomhole These companies are in Nigeria, carting away millions of dollars and using practices that will not be accepted in South Africa. If you hit me, I hit you; it is appropriate in diplomacy. Nigerians should come home and take over the jobs of MTN and DSTV. We will not condone any more Nigerian lives being lost in South Africa. Sen. Adams Oshiomhole, Chairman State Committee on Interior

You guys would have never survived apartheid

A grocery shop in Pimville, Soweto, South Africa 1956. Source: Drum Social Histories

More and more 12 year olds are having children in South Africa💔

Scholar transport fetching kids at 5am is crazyyyyy😭

South Africans are getting kidnapped for opening spaza shops in their own country. Yet we are labeled to be xenophobic when we respond.