
Andre-F
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South Africa won’t allow Starlink to be licensed, even though I was BORN THERE, simply because I am not Black! We were offered many times the opportunity to bribe our way to a license by pretending that a Black guy runs Starlink SA, but I have refused to do so on principle. Racism should not be rewarded no matter to which race it is applied. Shame on the racist politicians in South Africa. They should be shown no respect whatsoever anywhere in the world and shunned for being unashamedly RACISTS!









When we first arrived in America, we had a truck (a bakkie), but with husband working out of town, I was left without a car. Our neighbor’s daughter had a cute little Nissan Rogue that had been standing idle for months. The gearbox was completely shot, total fodder. Her dad was about to send it off to the scrapyard for just $300. I stopped him, paid the money on the spot, and suddenly the car was mine. Everything else on it was still basically brand new. When my husband came home, I casually told him I’d ordered a gearbox on eBay and it was already waiting in the garage. 😅 He was not impressed. "eBay? Are you crazy?" The next morning he got stuck in, pulled out the old gearbox, and was about to fit the new one when the neighbor strutted over. His eyes nearly popped out when he saw car parts scattered everywhere in the garage. My husband just looked up calmly and said, “Don’t worry, if the eBay gearbox is right, by tomorrow it’ll be running.” Well, the look on that man’s face! 😅 The next evening we proudly pulled into his driveway in the now-fixed Rogue. The neighbor immediately came out with beers and camping chairs. We all sat together, cold drinks in hand, just staring at the car with big smiles. My cheeky little eBay gearbox special, the car that was almost scrapped before I saved it. 😂 I galavanted with that car like it was my most prized possession.

RACISM: In 1994, South Africa replaced one racialized system with another, resulting in a stagnant economy. Growth has hovered near zero for more than a decade, per capita income is falling, and inequality is the highest in the world. Race is now even more central to economic rules. The clearest example is its treatment of its native-born son Elon Musk, who cannot operate his own business in the country unless he gives a third of it to a black man. x.com/cb_doge/status…


@PieterVand37940 It moves me to tears. Knowing that you have so much to offer your country and you get discriminated against and murdered because of your skin color and then to be accepted by another country that sees your value and hears your cries.









