Sizwe SikaMusi

This is Ernest Cole, a South African Apartheid-era photographer. His photographs were banned in South Africa. Here’s a thread🧵🧵 of a few of them.

@MainlandAfrica Good talk🤝

@SizweLo You don't have that casual knowledge. Take what you have to intellectual vegetables.

You are right except that as usual you are constantly huffing and puffing without applying your mind. I have consistently requested you to stay in your gallery. Please. The same Kissinger you quote is an asshole, like Mao. x.com/MainlandAfrica…

@Kaka_Dubu @LvovoSA Yes, in the same way an aeroplane and a bus are modes of transport.

@SizweLo @LvovoSA Central/Reserve Banks are Banks, right?

The ONLY solution for South Africa is to drastically reduce the size of its financial sector relative to other industries. Anything less, EVERYTHING will keep getting worse.

@Kaka_Dubu @LvovoSA Banks don’t issue currency.

@SizweLo @LvovoSA Then you know how money is created.

As per Kissinger, the problem with “siding” with the US is that they *will* stab you in the back. China knows this. They’ve seen them do it for decades to everyone but Israel. The only reason anyone would make the claim above is because it aligns with their blackpill brand of politics based on “They’re all working together behind my back”.

Between Iran and USA, China will choose to side with its principal USA. That was the purpose of the Trump trip - continuation of a world where the two dominate.

@Kaka_Dubu @LvovoSA Yes, why? x.com/i/status/11953…

@SizweLo @LvovoSA Ever heard of fractional reserve banking?

@Kaka_Dubu @LvovoSA Yes, why? x.com/i/status/11953…

@Kaka_Dubu @LvovoSA Banks don’t issue currency. Where the hell would they get money to do that? The economy is hyper financialised right now, yet they still don’t fund anything useful.

@LvovoSA @SizweLo Who do you think will fund that shift? Banks

patreon.com/posts/colonial… 2/2

“The African professionals, like the colonial clerks, are trusted operationally but excluded politically. They run the projects and produce the analysis on which decisions are made, but the decisions themselves remain concentrated elsewhere.” 1/2

@mbalis_bakery Whatever the ANC is doing/not doing right now is a direct result of the past. Unless the idea is to give the beneficiaries of that past a pass. Then, OK, sure.

At what point do we stop blaming the past and start demanding real accountability from ANC for the present?

@D_Molatoli That’s exactly what “the negotiated settlement” settled for.

@SizweLo You forgot to mention that the few Black elites who were in the forefront of negotiations were rewarded with shares, and today constitute a small percentage of Black billionaires. That's why they sold Chris Hani out. It was never about benefitting the Black majority.

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.

Why is President Trump ushering President Xi Jinping. Trump is a guest and Xi Jinping is a host. This is a true reflection of power.🤣🤣🤣

@AnonymousCowar0 @MightiJamie The Chinese State organises industrial output. At no point did the Chinese public “see other people organising themselves” and then decide what they needed was to not “complain” but have a “coming together”. The Communist Party did that, and they didn’t even elect it.

@MightiJamie Nobody stops us from coming together to have a Zulu mall or a Sotho university, or a Ndebele lobby group, or a Xhosa this or that. We always complain when we see other people organising themselves as if them being organised and united stops us from doing the same thing.

The rise of china malls is inversely proportional to local manufacturing.

@shufflesdu It was never about legal or illegal

This fellow doesn't even make a pretense of being concerned by the distinction of documented vs undocumented. His afrophobia is the one of 2008. No nuance.

@khwezi_shange @Ruka_Sibabalo @CampherDarren My problem with “The ANC needs to go” assumes a lot of things, including that it automatically means good things will flow from that.

@SizweLo @Ruka_Sibabalo @CampherDarren The ANC needs to go is the point. And all people need to do is follow the money and the issues they care about. Then vote. Even if we got a new party every time it'd be fine until we find those that actually deliver

The state and their accomplices are systemically slaughtering the youth

@khwezi_shange @Ruka_Sibabalo @CampherDarren Every single thing on that ballot is a terrible party. No exceptions.

@Ruka_Sibabalo @CampherDarren It's hard to get excited to vote when you have only seen one terrible party win over the years.

@Ncusane Extra steps, then?

@SizweLo Not at all same in terms of set-up.especially,the then Cabinet positions were shared in proportion to the votes and we had two DPs with Mr Phala…publicly embarrassing utata by turning down the offer of Foreign Affairs minister position . Worse, now we have NCOP,not the Senate.

The GNU is the same old ANC government just with extra steps

@MhlangaArchie You said it all, my Leader

Each principality will offer birth control and free basic income until the black population is reduced to zero and all jobs are automated. Total white power, 100% white planet. The same model will be applied to all continents.

This is disingenuous in the extreme. South Africa has chosen state-sponsored capitalism where the private sector is the primary driver of GDP and employment, while the state provides infrastructure, regulatory oversight, and social services. White Monopoly Capital seeks regime