Simba Mbili

Burundi is a cautionary tale for Kenya's regions like Meru. Like Burundi, Meru is incredibly fertile and blessed with famously industrious farmers, yet it risks falling into the same trap. ​By focusing solely on growing and shipping raw crops out of the county, Meru remains trapped in volatile income cycles dictated by shifting global market prices. True wealth will remain unlocked until the region transitions toward agro-processing. Meru needs to attract and establish factories to package and brand its tea, process macadamia oil, and manufacture cosmetics from local herbs. The revenue generated from these factories could then be reinvested into education, tech, and service industries. ​Hard work and fertile soil are excellent foundations, but true wealth requires leverage, and that only comes through industrialisation, value addition, and economic diversification.

@RamzZy_ @Yousuf_0010 @Monty_Hasashi The cutting of the foreskin was a mark to show you have actually gone through the process of learning what a man is within our community.

@Yousuf_0010 @Monty_Hasashi OK, your statement has 2 words that can’t exist in the same reality. Boys are NOT men just because they no longer have foreskin so you cannot assume they are adults.

People need to visit Kilifi or deep Maasai land where culture is stronger than laws. There are tribes that have believed for centuries that once a girl grows breasts or has her first period she is a woman (even if she is below 18yrs old) cos they measure age by puberty & fertility as life expectancy when such beliefs were formed was very low. Anyone wondering why boys get a separate house after puberty or circumcision?

@NM_Xulu @_s4ndile Those drastic cuts was from the West. Also its a refugee camp, not a place to live lavishly. Regardless, our contribution was the land and security which we never took it away. In fact it has allowed them to start over in a foreign space.

@Simba_Mbili @_s4ndile Are they running it from your CBD or the concentration camps. ? We both can google.

Meanwhile in the 1800s 🇳🇬 🇿🇦

@NM_Xulu @_s4ndile Seems like you are not getting my point. There is no You vs I. There us just us amd the system Poor(this includes the middle class) and wealthy. And in between are our African leaders selling us to the highest bidder. De Klerk visited his fellow ruling Elite not Kenyans

@Simba_Mbili @_s4ndile Apartheid SA was the whole of Africa's problem. They started wars and spied on everyone. You were helping yourselves too. Hence why you guys gladly had apartheid president F.W. de Klerk visit towards the end of his regime. He had a great time.

I think we east and southern Africans need to graduate from this argument. Our foreparents made it for rhetorical value, now we need to graduate to a philosophical and historically grounded argument. My dear Africans, when Europeans were saying that they discovered a lake or mountain in Africa, they didn't mean nobody had seen it before. They meant that Africans were nobodies. That's what was contained in the Papal Bulls between 1452 and 1493 on the doctrine of discovery. And it was applied to indigenous peoples of the Americas first. By the time it reached Africa, 4 centuries had passed. The Popes said that "Christians" (meaning Europeans) had the right to visit other lands, and if they found resources they wanted there, they could consider it "terra nullius" (land of nobody). That doctrine justified the evictions, massacres and enslavement of the people (the non-Christians, aka savages) already living on the land. It wasn't just about name change. The doctrine continued to be used in court judgements of settler colonies and international law up to this century, and Pope Francis only repudiated it in 2021. And when you think of it, the government of Kenya is still using that doctrine for evictions for affordable housing, mineral sites and wildlife conservancies. It's nice to make fun of absurdities in Western logic, but now let's chew the hard historical and philosophical implications. And with all due respect to Miriam Makeba, this isn't a question she should have been asked. Remember Malcolm X pointed out that it's only when it comes to black people that entertainers are expected to articulate political positions. We need to avoid confusing rhetorical rebuttals for political philosophy. We need to be careful to distinguish what is rhetorically clever and what is politically enlightening.

@TumeloMaboea @Mxbeez You are wrong. The illegal immigrants are a good portion of the middle class and the lower class. The only beneficiaries in this economy are the ruling Elite, which is 90% white with a few black middlemen.

@Mxbeez They are the biggest beneficiaries of illegal immigration.

It's time for the middle class to step up .

@NM_Xulu @_s4ndile Also you are wrong to think 100% of South Africans are "legal" in other African countries. BTW I do feel your pain, Kenya also has a few settlers who never left, owning a large tracts of land and a significant portion of the Kenyan Economy. Our Elites are also pieces of Shite.

@Simba_Mbili @_s4ndile They are not allowed to work. They are not allowed into your country. They can't even leave the camps. Their children aren't being educated. They receive a fraction of minimum recommended daily food intake. South Africans went back home. It's time everyone does the same.

@NM_Xulu @_s4ndile Dude like just read a little. Don't just argue for the sake of it..

Indian People from Asia continent are South Africans but Lesotho and Zimbabwe born in South Africans are not South Africans 😂😂😂😂😂😂 You people are literally after skin colours not foreigners.

@OrdinarySouthy @suntoshpillay 1. I am proudly Kenyan. 2. I have no issues with infertility. 3. My grandfather left me 30 acres of very fertile land. Full of crops ready to harvest soon and some Dairy cows. I am not scared of the Whites. I am only scared of bad weather patterns.

@Simba_Mbili @suntoshpillay You seems to have a severe infertility complex jumping to whites when we start to talk about the law. You come here illegally then want to tell us what to do? Sorry, try that shit in Zimbabwe not in SA. White South Africans seems like a real scare word for u🤣🤣🤣ayeye!!!

Unfortunately, as South Africans we do not travel enough within Africa, and pay very little attention to life above the Limpopo river. It shows.

@NM_Xulu @_s4ndile If you knew what a refugee camp is you wouldn't tweet this. Dadaab plays the same role that Botswana played when you were running away from Apartheid SA.

@Simba_Mbili @_s4ndile Good. Now maybe you can stop putting Your fellow Africans into concentration camps where they die of poverty, malnutrition and disease. Bring them into your country and use your taxes to look after them. Then you can tell us about our country.

@WyleHope @MR_K_R_B @suntoshpillay This is actually an intra class war. Africans going there are encroaching into their poverty. Since they cannot go after the Whites, they choose the low hanging fruits. EFF even tried to rally them to go and take over their White Owned lands, they couldn't. Bunch of pussies.

@MR_K_R_B @suntoshpillay 46 million people sharing only 16% of the countries wealth and being proud of it is total stupidity and madness. This almost makes them the poorest black people on the continent. These people can't even dare ask the 1% in Die kaap.

@NM_Xulu @_s4ndile Sorry bro I am actually a Kenyan. Thriving in my country beyond your wildest dreams. Not saying that Kenya is anywhere near perfect. The guys dying in the Mediterranean have the same inferiority complex similar to you guys. Just showing it in different ways.

@Simba_Mbili @_s4ndile And you guys die in the Mediterranean to be with them. It's all projection.

@Ngwane88447631 @UmzantsiOwethu @MusaaRonalds You couldn't kick out the Dutch and you think you will kick out Africans🤣🤣🤣 you my friend is also amakwerekwere in 70%of South Africa. I understand your anger to a certain extent.

@Simba_Mbili @UmzantsiOwethu @MusaaRonalds She must go sell her bananas in Malawi, there are no South African illegal immigrants in the streets of Malawi selling bananas. Our immigration law does not allow immigrants to sell bananas on the streets, that's reserved for South Africans, just like any other country.

Let us retire this romantic fiction called "African unity." Africa is not a single hearth! it is 54 distinct nations, each with its own flag, its own ledger, its own grudges, and its own survival calculus. We speak of brotherhood, yet when Donald Trump aimed his full-throated tirade at South Africa calling us names, threatening our land reform, questioning our sovereignty where was this vaunted continent? Not a single president issued a joint statement. Not one foreign minister summoned an ambassador. Silence. Absolute, deafening silence. We pour millions into Ebola containment in the DRC. Our scientists and doctors risk their lives in jungle clinics while the world looks away. Do we hear applause from Abuja? Do we see troops from Nairobi? Do we receive vaccines from Cairo? No. We are thanked only by the absence of criticism which is not solidarity; it is indifference. We bankroll the African Union generous contributions, peacekeeping levies, infrastructure funds yet when South Africa bleeds, when our currency trembles under external pressure, when our policies are ridiculed on global stages, where are the AU communiqués? Where are the emergency sessions? Where are the counter-statements from our fellow 53? Let us be honest! every country acts in its own interest. That is not betrayal; that is statecraft. But then let us stop performing pan-African martyrdom. Let us stop begging for a seat at a table that vanishes the moment we need it. South Africa must defend South Africa. We must fund our own science, secure our own borders, and build our own alliances bilaterally, pragmatically, without waiting for a continental chorus that never comes. Unity is beautiful when it serves. But it is not a lifeline. It never has been.

@mandymatsinhe Trust me if the white South African want those Africans to stay in their country there is nothing you Blacks can do about it.🤣

Because they are the biggest beneficiaries of cheap labor. Hospitality (restaurants, bars, hotels) Construction. Farming.

@Nimrooi @_s4ndile You don't have to argue about everything buddy.

@Simba_Mbili @_s4ndile 🔴📢📣📣

@UmzantsiOwethu @MusaaRonalds Yes, there is no one Africa just like there is No one SA. And no, we are not trying to get back at Europeans. We will lose that fight on inception. South Africans tried it with Afrikaans and lost. Now they turn to easier prey, the 40year old Malawian mother selling Bananas.

@Simba_Mbili @MusaaRonalds There’s no one Africa you all are just traumatised and trying to get back at Europeans to prove to Then you can be United because they once colonised you. Get off that 54 countries being one is impractical. Culturally we are sooo different. Your food smells like shit to me

@michelle_mystiq Cameroon alone is home to 7M Nigerians, 20k South Africans live in Mozambique. This is a land issue. 70% of SA is white owned. Other African countries dont have an "immigrant crisis " because the land issue in SA is much worse. You are squatters in your ancestral land.

South Africa will eventually have to draw the line somewhere. If African governments say they don’t have the resources to even repatriate their own citizens, then the real question is: what is their long-term plan for those people once they are back home? If a state cannot fund transport for a few thousand people today, how does it expect to provide jobs, housing, healthcare, and basic services tomorrow so those same people don’t end up returning to South Africa out of necessity? South Africa cannot indefinitely absorb the consequences of governance failures elsewhere in the name of ubuntu or regional solidarity. At some point responsibility has to sit where it belongs: with the governments of those countries. We need to start being honest about how we have normalised bad leadership, incompetence and corruption on the African continent, and how South Africa has had to bear the brunt of poorly governed nations for decades now. But at some point, South Africa will also have to stop playing the role of enabler.

@Yknip1 The drug cartels are going nowhere. It's the Malawian selling sweets that will leave, the tech Savvy Nigerian who opened a tech shop. The Zimbabwean selling bananas in the streets. The drug zones managed by Africans who chose to leave will be run by South African Druglords

So South Africans, nina who are taxed left & right originally from rural areas, if organisations like Dudula ne March & March had not raised concerns about illegal immigration, what would have happened in the future? 🤔 More drug cartels, higher taxes, more undocumented immigrants entering the country & more lawlessness until the borders are completely open & Southaa eventually collapse 😳then what?

There are no "tribes" in Africa , they have never existed until fictitious "tribes" were created by Lord Lugard, Theophilus Shepstone, George Grey helped by missionary "educated" Natives. Africans had fully functional nation-states before Europe, the weakness was not prioritising military strength hence the coloniser with help from compromised Natives could takeover the continent. Europeans arrived in Africa in late 1400s, total colonization only took place in 1884, that's over 400 years , then again history is written by the conqueror hence many Africans still believe we are meek people through a system of propaganda passed on as "modern education"