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.
You only result to insult when you have nothing good to prove your point. Insult me again and this conversation is over.
You don’t need to cause chaos before you make a change… you think because it’s your country you have the right to cause chaos? There are better way to resolve issues. I don’t support immigrants or criminals flooding your country but why are you unleashing your anger on both the innocent and guilty? Including kids that’s evil. You are also looting and destroying businesses, don’t you know you are damaging the reputation and economy of your country? At the end of the day South Africa is your own if you damage it because of foreigners the foreigners will run away to their home country and leave you to your mess.
@PaidAmigo@DelegsT You are an idiot. Cause chaos on our country? Where are we supposed to cause that chaos kanti? Just leave SA to South Africans and fix your shit hole countries
With the way you are moving it will not remain the same. If you continue causing chaos and brouhaha in your country and it leads to serious consequences the whites will demand for their own settlement no matter how small and leave you lots to kill yourselves and it will be given to them
You talking nonsense. South Africans will hate people who come to South Africa with bad intentions. We are not gona standby and watch when illegal foreigners are busy killing our kids with drugs and human trafficking in the name of hustling . They must go hustle at home or elsewhere
@Mashudu22 If I show you lives I’ve improved, what will I say next? Or ask next? Bro relax, one love, stop hating yourself, or did a political party pay you?
@_Valentinoxy Why are you not improving the lives of your people back at home since you are skilful and hardworking nation. What are the results of your skills and hard working? Nigeria is a failed state but you come here parading your stupidity daily
@_Valentinoxy Why is your country a shit hole if you lot are hard workers? You don’t even have electricity, proper road and healthcare, poverty level is at above 70%, no ablution system it you are hard workers. You will fool each other, not here
@Mashudu22 The laziness is a diseases, and disease spreads, it needs to be contained. Learn a skill and apply for a 9-5, at least starts somewhere, or I can teach you a tech skill.
@Mashudu22 Lucky my dear. You're losing your grip sunshine. Im as South African as you and I will speak my mind without restriction and especially will not take instructions from a lightweight such as you. Tsek wena
South Africa is confusing beyond description. We hate our largest trading partner, the USA, where we get most of our foreign currency from and love China who we only import from and sell nearly nothing to. So basically we make forex from trade with USA and spend it in China. Dumb
@doris8887@Mashudu22@NigeriaStories Our men animals? You really must be smoking plastic rice 😂 our men don't eat cow skin and dogs, that's what we call animal behavior 😂🤣😂
SA prostitutes you mean 😂 they are our sisters, we know the kind of women who give themselves to those scavengers, we live with them 😂
@doris8887@mrs_paki@NigeriaStories You are an idiot, Nigeria are the ones who must leave South Africa alone. We are not the one who are at your shit hole of a country