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https://youtube.com/shorts/uDCm_OZ_b30?si=iBKqo6k4k4RhpR9H https://youtube.com/shorts/uDCm_OZ_b30?si=iBKqo6k4k4RhpR9H Why are we surprised that the east is ahead in technology. Western superiority was based on false propaganda that the west is the leader through colonialism.
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It will not create jobs. It will not improve education. It will not reduce crime. It will not eliminate corruption. It will not replace foreign labour with South African labour. It will not make South Africans more willing to work long hours. It will not magically produce electricians, plumbers, builders, or drivers. Instead, shutdowns will: Destroy township economies. Bankrupt families who rely on rental income from foreign‑run shops. Cripple small businesses. Accelerate unemployment. Increase poverty. Fuel xenophobic violence. Drive away the very people who kept the economy functioning. South Africa is not suffering because foreigners are here. South Africa is suffering because foreigners are leaving. The Real Question: Why Are We Doing This to Ourselves? Duduzile Zuma‑Sambudla’s shutdown politics are not about national interest. They are about personal political branding — a reckless attempt to become the next populist icon. But a nation cannot afford leaders who treat the economy like a stage and the public like props. South Africa must confront its real problems: A failed education system. A collapsing state. A culture of entitlement without productivity. A political class addicted to corruption. A labour force unwilling to do the work required to sustain a modern economy. Foreign nationals are not the enemy. They are the mirror — reflecting what we have become. Until we face that truth, shutdowns will continue to destroy what little remains of our fragile economy. About the Author Dr Ellapen V. Rapiti Family Physician • Writer • Social Commentator • Motivational Speaker Cape Town, South Africa
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The Thursday Shutdowns: How Reckless Politics Is Crippling South Africa By Dr Ellapen V. Rapiti Family Physician • Writer • Social Commentator • Motivational Speaker Cape Town, South Africa South Africa is being dragged into a cycle of self‑inflicted economic destruction — and the public deserves to understand who is driving it, why it is happening, and what the consequences truly are. The repeated calls for nationwide shutdowns — often on Thursdays — have come from Duduzile Zuma‑Sambudla, daughter of former president Jacob Zuma. She has a documented history of incitement during the 2021 unrest, where her social‑media posts encouraged violence that ultimately cost the country billions and claimed hundreds of lives. Today, she positions herself as a political firebrand, mimicking Julius Malema’s populist style but without any grasp of economics, governance, or national stability. Her calls for shutdowns are not grounded in policy. They are grounded in ambition. And South Africa is paying the price. The Economic Carnage of Shutdown Politics Each shutdown costs the country approximately R600 million in lost revenue per day — a staggering figure for a nation already buckling under unemployment, poverty, and collapsing state institutions. But the damage goes far deeper than numbers. The threat of xenophobic violence during the recent shutdowns has driven many foreign nationals to flee South Africa. The consequences are visible everywhere: Parking lots are empty — the car guards who kept these spaces functional are gone. Motorbike delivery services have slowed — there are fewer riders, and almost no South Africans willing to take their place. Spaza shops are disappearing — these small businesses, run by foreign nationals, have been the backbone of township economies for decades. Online taxi services are short of drivers. Small contractors are struggling — electricians, builders, plumbers, and technicians from Zimbabwe, Angola, Mozambique, and the DRC have long sustained the construction sector. South Africans are discovering a painful truth: Foreign nationals were never “taking jobs.” They were doing jobs South Africans refused to do. The Myth of “Foreigners Stealing Jobs” This narrative has always been false. Foreign nationals work long hours in harsh conditions. They operate on razor‑thin margins. They rent shops and rooms from South Africans, providing essential income to thousands of families. They bring skills our education system no longer produces. They provide services — spaza shops, car guarding, deliveries, artisanal trades — that locals simply do not want. Migrant labourer have sustained our mining industry for under a century because they wanted the jobs we were not prepared to do. South Africans, by contrast, have become choosy. They demand high pay before proving competence. They refuse long hours, outdoor work, or physically demanding jobs. They prefer quick‑money ventures: shebeens, drugs, or crime. They avoid entrepreneurial risk. They lack the artisanal training that once sustained our industries. This is not xenophobia’s fault. This is our own failure — educational, cultural, and political. A Nation in Decline South Africa’s collapse is not the work of foreigners. It is the work of: A broken education system that produces unskilled graduates. A government that destroyed every state‑owned enterprise. A political elite drowning in corruption. A violent society with the world’s highest rates of rape, murder, and armed robbery. 27 million citizens on social grants — nearly half the population. A labour force unwilling to work, and a political class unwilling to govern. Foreign nationals did not create this crisis. They helped delay it. The Shutdowns Will Not Fix Anything What will shutting down the country achieve? Nothing.
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— THE FOREIGN NATIONALS - not the cause for the misery of struggling citizens, we are. Dr EV Rapiti, July 1, 2026 South Africa is a country in pain. Unemployment is catastrophic, crime is suffocating, and hopelessness has become a national mood. In this climate, it is easy to find a scapegoat. Foreign nationals have become the preferred target of public frustration, accused of “taking jobs,” “running the economy,” and “destroying opportunities for locals.” But this narrative is not only false — it is destructive. It blinds us to the real causes of our misery and prevents us from confronting the failures within our own society. Foreign nationals are providing services that South Africans have been unable, unwilling, or unprepared to provide. They operate where the formal economy refuses to go. Spaza shops, micro‑traders, and convenience stores thrive in communities abandoned by formal retailers. These businesses sell essentials at prices the poor can afford, work long hours on razor‑thin margins, occupy rental spaces no South African retailer wants, and keep communities functioning where the state has collapsed. They are not displacing South Africans — they are serving South Africans. Foreign traders rent rooms from South African homeowners, often becoming the primary income source for families who would otherwise have nothing. They hire locals for security, deliveries, stock handling, and cleaning. This is not job theft. It is economic oxygen. South Africa’s education system has failed catastrophically. It does not produce artisans, entrepreneurs, or service‑sector professionals. It produces graduates who are unemployable, demotivated, and disconnected from the realities of the labour market. Foreign nationals succeed because they bring discipline, entrepreneurial drive, technical skills, and a work ethic shaped by necessity. These are qualities our system no longer cultivates. The difference in service quality between many foreign workers and many local workers is not about nationality — it is about attitude, training, and pride in work. Foreign nationals often display gratitude for opportunity, humility, professionalism, and a commitment to excellence. Too many South Africans in service roles display resentment, entitlement, poor training, and visible disdain for their jobs. This is not a moral judgement — it is a structural outcome of a failed education system and a broken work culture. As a customer, choosing a waiter who smiles and takes pride in their work is not unpatriotic. It is rational. For many young South Africans, the most accessible “career paths” are gangs, extortion networks, drug distribution, mugging and theft. These are not personal failings — they are economic outcomes of state failure. Foreign nationals do not cause this. Government failure does. For decades, the ruling party has blamed apartheid for every governance failure — even as corruption hollowed out the state. This deflection has created a convenient scapegoat: foreign nationals. It is easier to blame the shopkeeper who works 16 hours a day than the government that destroyed the education system, collapsed policing, and failed to build an inclusive economy. South Africa cannot fix unemployment by attacking the people who keep our informal economy alive. We cannot fix service quality by attacking those who take pride in their work. We cannot fix crime by attacking those who choose entrepreneurship over gangs. Foreign nationals are not the cause of our misery. They are a mirror reflecting what we have lost: discipline, entrepreneurship, resilience, and pride in work. If anything, we should be learning from them. We need to look deep into our souls to find the cause for our misery. We must stop blaming apartheid and foreign nationals for our misery - the fault lies with us and our attitude. Dr EV Rapiti July 1, 2026 Cape Town
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I sometimes wonder whether he wasn’t deeply depressed off stage, like so many great artists who drowned their sorrows in drugs and alcohol. Thank you, Freddie, for entertaining us with some of the greatest music ever created. You are a legend — your music will live forever. Those of us who heard you when you were alive are truly fortunate. To those unfamiliar with his music, I urge you to see the show. You won’t be sorry. It was not just entertainment; it was a history lesson about a great performer. Dr E.V. Rapiti Cape Town June 21 2026 Bio Dr Rapiti is a great lover of the arts. He enjoys watching great shows and is extremely disappointed by the severe decline in audience numbers to the arts alive. Arts in his words, are the essential nutrition of the soul. Without the arts, we will become soulless beings. Society's foolish obsession with social media platforms is leading to the the demise of good theatre and art. Bio Dr Rapiti is a great lover of the arts. He enjoys watching powerful productions and is deeply disappointed by the severe decline in audience numbers attending live performances. In his view, the arts are the essential nutrition of the soul. Without them, we risk becoming soulless beings. He believes that society’s foolish obsession with social media platforms is contributing to the demise of good theatre and meaningful art. For him, the stage remains one of the last sacred spaces where humanity can confront truth, beauty, and emotion without distraction. — Dr E.V. Rapiti Family Physician • Writer • Social Commentator Cape Town, South Africa www.drrapiti.com
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Freddie Mercury, the musical, A review by Dr E V Rapiti, June 21 2026 Last night, sitting in the darkened Theatre on the Bay in Cape Town, I realised that Freddie Mercury was not merely a star; he was a storm with outstanding artistic talents and creativity. A man who lived with the recklessness of someone who believed he was immortal, yet sang with the trembling honesty of someone terrified of dying. The show did not present him as a legend carved in marble, but as a human being — brilliant, broken, daring, fragile — a man who ran towards life even as death stalked him from the shadows. The production, brilliantly choreographed and performed by some of the country’s leading choreographers and gifted singers, takes on the formidable challenge of interpreting the complex lyrics, music, and emotions of the legendary Freddie Mercury. Through an evening of vibrant dance and powerful vocals, we are offered brief but striking glimpses into the life of this extraordinary musician. What became clear was that he was an absolute perfectionist. He possessed a multitude of talents rolled into one. A composer, musician, singer, and electrifying performer, he commanded an outstanding vocal range that could effortlessly soar across octaves within a single song. He loved the stage. He was unafraid of crowds. When asked in an interview whether massive audiences intimidated him, he replied spontaneously that he loved big numbers — and that applied to everything in his life. His lyrics often left one puzzled about the real Freddie Mercury. Born in Zanzibar to Parsi parents and raised in the UK from adolescence, he carried the complexities of an immigrant identity. He lived in an era when his sexual identity was harshly judged, yet this did not deter him. He produced some of the greatest music ever written and performed with the gusto of someone who took complete command of the stage — and of the millions who watched him with hypnotic admiration. Only Freddie could create a string of seemingly meaningless sounds — “Deo, day‑oh” — and have an entire audience repeat them as if chanting a mystical mantra. He often appeared fearless, yet in other songs he revealed a lonely man, afraid of dying. In Bohemian Rhapsody, he metaphorically confesses to killing a man and accepts that he is going to die, yet in the same breath he plaintively cries that he doesn’t want to die. When he was diagnosed with AIDS, he refused to let the illness define him. He continued living his bohemian lifestyle and sang Who Wants to Live Forever, a stark contrast to his earlier admission of fearing death. He sometimes performed in female attire, but more often he appeared with a strikingly masculine image — flexing his muscles and wielding his unique short‑stick microphone as if it were an extension of his own body. One of his crowning moments was his performance at one of the greatest concerts the world has ever seen — the Live Aid concert. The event brought together some of the world’s best musicians to raise funds for children dying of hunger in Ethiopia. Performed to a packed Wembley Stadium and broadcast to over 1.9 billion people worldwide, Freddie Mercury’s breathtaking 21‑minute performance earned him the well‑deserved title of the night’s greatest performer. I am certain the crowd would have wanted this remarkable musician, singer, and showman to sing all night. In the song Somebody to Love, we see another side of this strong man. He seemed to be crying out to be loved, touched, and held. This mixed picture of his personality — ranging from daring, devil‑may‑care bravado to a lonely soul yearning for love — made it difficult to fathom who the real Freddie Mercury truly was. I salute the producers, directors, and artists of this show for taking on such an immense and complex task, giving us a tiny glimpse into the life and music of one of history’s greatest artists. Freddie epitomised the typical man who would rather struggle alone and hide his pain than find someone to confide in.
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This message also applies equally to single moms who juggle their roles being compassionate moms or the firm dads interchange
This message also applies equally to single moms who juggle their roles being compassionate moms or the firm dads interchangeably depending on the situation.
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