Neill Foster

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Neill Foster

Neill Foster

@NFosterJNR

My favorite animal is steak...

Johannesburg Katılım Kasım 2012
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MIF78
MIF78@moe187fr·
@NFosterJNR @woestyn_wolf There is no war or "WHITE GENOCIDE" in South Africa so they don't qualify as refugees that's why they are privelegded white liars.
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Woestyn_Wolf 🇿🇦🇳🇦
Woestyn_Wolf 🇿🇦🇳🇦@woestyn_wolf·
Why does the leaving of 50 Afrikaners offends so many people? What are you really mad about?
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Neill Foster
Neill Foster@NFosterJNR·
@moe187fr @woestyn_wolf Please clarify what you mean by "African" because if you mean they are African because of where they are born, then the whites from South Africa are African (Been there since 1652) if you mean by skin colour, then they aren't black, they are Arab...
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MIF78
MIF78@moe187fr·
@woestyn_wolf People from the middle east are not white are they and all African countries involved in wars they're people aren't white either are they?
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Neill Foster
Neill Foster@NFosterJNR·
@Aussious @simoncynicsays @RiaadMoosa From the ground up, not from the top down. Hold education to a higher standard and improve/build more schools. Get rid of the 30% pass rate and move it back up to 50%. If education was taken more seriously there would be no need for BEE laws. The ANC has failed all SA children
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Riaad Moosa
Riaad Moosa@RiaadMoosa·
Dear Apartheid Nostalgics First of all, I’m sorry you feel persecuted more than other races in the New South Africa in 2025…I am sorry. For real. I know life is hectic! Even for us brown and black people…it’s pretty bad. I am sorry…but a few things need to be said… (I’m gonna use sports analogies here. I hope the Rugby one gets you) Look, everybody agrees with the concept of merit and working hard. Black people. Brown people. White People. Everybody. But everybody should have opportunity to access the game. Affirmative action doesn’t mean there’s no merit. Affirmative action does not mean there’s no working hard. For hundreds of years, people of colour were LEGALLY prevented from playing the game of self determination. Legally oppressed. Legally not allowed access. Apartheid wasn’t like affirmative action - It wasn't like if there’s a qualified white dude & qualified black dude…the qualified white person will get the opportunity. No. The Apartheid & colonial laws meant that - no matter what - you CAN’T get access. It’s illegal. If you’re black - u can’t buy the land. You can’t have the job. You can’t get the education. You can’t move up no matter how hard you work. No matter how smart you are. It’s AGAINST the law. Versions of this happened all over the world. A funny example is the NBA in America. There was a time, unbelievable as it may seem, when the NBA was WHITES ONLY. It’s not that the white people didn’t compete hard against other white people for victory on merit… …but black people weren’t allowed to play… even guys like Lebron James grandfather wasn’t allowed to play. He wasn’t dunking a basketball…making buckets. He was dunking…a mop…into a bucket. Meanwhile he could probably 360 clean the backboard from the free throw line. The idea of affirmative action is just to get people of colour or people who’ve been historically disenfranchised…into the game. Let them play. Once they’re in the game, they still have to compete like everyone else. Like anyone who’s given an opportunity..QUOTA players can only survive if they’re good. They can only survive due to competence. Another way of looking at it… ..black people’s legs have been LEGALLY AMPUTATED for hundreds of years. Real, horrifically messed up laws that amputated their progress. Now Imagine Oscar Pistorius right… When he ran, he ran with his affirmative action prosthetics. It didn’t guarantee that he won, it meant he could run the race. Imagine Oscar had to compete with no prosthetics. Trying to run the race on his stumps. And then Oscar has to run a race with Usain Bolt. And on top of that…Usain Bolt’s ancestors amputated his legs in the first place. Might make you insecure right? May make you wanna shoot someone. With prosthetics he can compete… and to stay in the race, he still needs to be able to run… and if Oscar wins the race…even with prosthetics… …you can’t say he’s not winning on merit. If privileged people still don’t agree with what I’m saying…let me use a language you may understand… Golf. The next time you play golf - don’t play with a golf handicap cos a Golf Handicap could be called Golf Affirmative action. Or 140+ handicap based golf laws. It’s a way to get people into the game. Apartheid laws weren’t white people playing golf and black people getting a golf handicap… Apartheid was… a black person has to be a CADDY. You’re not allowed to ever play golf. You have to be a caddy. Now if you still not with me…this is my final attempt. Rugby. If I can’t get through to you with rugby it’s impossible…you’ll never get what I’m saying. As a nation, if we figure out how to include ALL RACES into the game of SELF DETERMINATION, it’ll be better for everyone. We won the rugby this way. We became world champions this way. Many times. And every single time there was a new black or coloured face introduced to the team, the assumption was that the black or coloured face was not qualified. Quota player. By default - the perception is 'not qualified' until proven otherwise… That assumption, bias and racism still exists. If there were no systems of redress and so called “140+ race laws” or affirmative action - …because of historical disadvantage, guys like Siya, Cheslyn and Mapimpi for example would probably NEVER have played for our country. Because there would have been no 140+ race based opportunities to get them development, coaching and access. I’m not saying an all white team would not win…there’s nothing scarier than a white Afrikaner rugby player with no neck and cauliflower ears… Baksteen Du Toit will bliksem you and be very effective…white people have the expertise no doubt. …but it’s much better that we all won together. Even though white people had all the expertise, it’s much better that effort was put into diversity, inclusion and equity in conjunction with the obvious hard work and merit based systems. Continuing with the status quo…could still have won us the Rugby World Cup with Afrikaner players called Os or Blikkies many times over…but more importantly the consequences of the “140+ race laws” won not only the World cups, but the heart of all South Africans. We all won together. And it’s possible. And it’s inspiring. And it’s nation building. And we can do it in all industries in SA. It’ll just take time. And effort. But the morality and ethics are sustainable and long lasting. What @afriforum is doing is completely the opposite. It’s just selfish…and no matter how they try to disguise it - fundamentally racist to the core. Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika
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SABC News
SABC News@SABCNews·
According to the latest SAPS crime stats, the Eastern Cape has the highest murder rate with 18 murders per 100 000 people, with 1300 murders recorded between October 2024 and December 2024. The Western Cape follows with the second highest murder rate in the country at 16.1 and KwaZulu-Natal with 12.
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Neill Foster
Neill Foster@NFosterJNR·
@MbuguaTeflon @Aku_700 @elonmusk ... but white South Africans have died for that land in 2 wars against the British?(1880-1881 & 1899-1902 with a total estimated death of 18000 - 28000) So by your definition they are african?
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Ten ♤《💹🧲》@MbuguaTeflon·
@Aku_700 @elonmusk Yes. What you insinuated is true. White south africans are not Africa!!! Neither is a brown british man British. How is this jot common sense? The fact that you were born in some land should not give you equal rights to the men and women who died for that land.
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Neill Foster@NFosterJNR·
@LawrenceAyesig3 @Fortunate__ @TheKiffness I’m talking about SA specifically. For example the Tsonga people only arrived in the 1800’s. I’m not saying there were no other black people. Another genuine question (again no offence intended as I want to learn) but what makes someone native?
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Lawrence Ayesiga
Lawrence Ayesiga@LawrenceAyesig3·
@NFosterJNR @Fortunate__ @TheKiffness Well the law before made it impossible for the majority racial group to legally own land/property, they were basically squatters on their ancestral lands , now that the law is nolonger in force it's only fair that redistribution of land is done
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Neill Foster
Neill Foster@NFosterJNR·
@LawrenceAyesig3 @Fortunate__ @TheKiffness Ok fair, but I don't think the answer is to place that same humiliation on others, especially if they paid for that land with money earned from honest work. We should target individuals, not groups. Especially based on race/gender/religion
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Lawrence Ayesiga
Lawrence Ayesiga@LawrenceAyesig3·
@NFosterJNR @Fortunate__ @TheKiffness You asked a question of what privilege does the whites have over blacks and I told it to u, in Africa land isn't just anyother possession it's security, it's identity,it's pride dispossessing it is ultimate humiliation
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Neill Foster
Neill Foster@NFosterJNR·
@Fortunate__ @TheKiffness Genuine question. And I do mean genuine and mean absolutely no offense. But what benefits do I as a white man have that a black person doesn't? Note I grew up in a broken household, raised by my grandmother as my mom had to work 16-20 hrs a day had to get a student loan to study
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Bills
Bills@billsXchills·
@TheKiffness The benefits and privileges that came from this system often extend beyond the lifespan of the regime. Saying that one isn't responsible because they weren't alive then overlooks the inherited advantages and systemic structures that continue to perpetuate inequality.
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🇺🇸Dawne All-Ice🇺🇸
@NFosterJNR @jonatanpallesen @Bena_Mukuria @elonmusk Do you have comprehension deficiency? That is irrelevant to the conversation. If you knew history you would understand the ethnogenesis and wars that happened on OUR land. It wasn’t simply black and white. Ppl also bought their family out of slavery. Your ignorance is sinful!
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🇺🇸Dawne All-Ice🇺🇸
@jonatanpallesen @Bena_Mukuria @elonmusk Don’t bring us up as an argument. We have a TOTALLY different story. The PORTION of our ancestry from Africa came by force. Those white South Africans colonized. Committed evil. That is a totally different thing. Keep our names out of your colonizer debates!
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Bedworth Times@BedworthTimes·
#UFC305 Fight Week NEWS: While Dricus Du Plessis went full mode into South African🇿🇦 heritage on the other hand Israel Adesanya🇳🇬 went anime🖋 What is dupped as the biggest African champs MMA fight in History!! Who's the true African MMA Champion? Are you team Izzy🇳🇬 or Dricus🇿🇦?
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Capitec
Capitec@CapitecBankSA·
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Capitec
Capitec@CapitecBankSA·
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