Sizwe SikaMusi
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Phakelumthakathi: South Africa can pay South Africans 1 million every year for the rest of their lives. We don’t even need to work. We can have legal immigrants work for us like in Dubai. I would transform SA to the 2nd-most beautiful country in the world. Better than America.
Sizwe SikaMusi181,783 views • 17 days ago
Dr Naledi Pandor: We’ve allowed the US to be more powerful than it should It’s surprising that Africans have voted in favour of Israel Africans could present a different moral voice, but if you are bought off and persuaded by projects or money, you are a client, not a force
Sizwe SikaMusi123,196 views • 14 days ago
It appears “Phakelumthakathi” knows something the former Statistician-General of South Africa doesn’t. Nkepile Mabuse: What will the economy look like if, hypothetically, undocumented migrants would leave? Dr Pali Lehohla: It’s not going to change. Business is White, it will continue to dominate, and Blacks will wake up to a disillusion—as disillusioned people—that “we thought they are gone, we will survive”. We have to deal with the economic policies that will make South Africa the engine.
Sizwe SikaMusi179,794 views • 1 month ago
When the Nigerian economy fell into hard times in the early 1980s, the government issued a “Quit order” expelling undocumented immigrants. In the video below, Nigeria’s president, “Minister” Shehu Shagari fielded questions about the scale and the death of people during the mass exodus. Interestingly, there was not much improvement in Nigeria’s economy after the order was carried out. According to Dr Hashim Gibrill of Clark Atlanta University, “The economic impact was acute, notably in sectors like hospitality and construction, where many skilled workers were lost”. Many foreign manual labourers and skilled tradesmen vanished overnight, stalling building projects, while small businesses, hotels, and agricultural sectors lost a massive pool of cheap, reliable labour. At the same time, the policy failed to save the government economically as the economy continued to freefall. On 31 December, 1983, less than a year after the expulsion order, military Major General Muhammadu Buhari overthrew the government in a military coup, citing a completely ruined economy. Ultimately, historians agree that the 1983 expulsion was a severe humanitarian tragedy that caused massive regional disruption and provided absolutely zero economic relief to Nigeria. Now, to be fair, it makes total intuitive sense on the surface for people to believe that expelling migrants will improve their economic situation. That is precisely why political leaders throughout history have used this tactic because it relies on logic that feels like common sense, even though economic reality repeatedly proves it wrong. This is because from a purely intuitive standpoint, people tend to look at the economy as a zero-sum game, with jobs, housing, and government resources as a fixed pie. It sense that if there are 100 jobs and 20 immigrants occupy some of them, expelling those immigrants means 20 citizens get those jobs. Similarly, when unemployment and inequality are high, finding complex macroeconomic solutions takes years. But blaming a visible, distinct group of outsiders offers an instant, simple explanation for a complex mess, which makes it attractive to a frustrated public. But the thing is that in any economy, jobs are not a fixed pie, and when you suddenly remove millions of consumers from a country, as Nigeria did in 1983, the demand for bread, clothes, transport, and rent plummets. Businesses lose customers, revenues drop, and many end up retrenching more workers. Again, it’s common sense to assume a citizen will just step into an undocumented worker’s shoes. But in reality, citizens often refuse to work the same low-wage, backbreaking labour like seasonal agriculture. South African farmers routinely report struggling to recruit and retain local South African workers for these short-term, backbreaking harvesting seasons as farm work is highly intensive, temporary, and often located in remote areas. South African citizens, who have constitutional rights, families to support locally, and expectations of fair labor standards, rightfully refuse to work for these illegal, sub-poverty wages. So, this is less about citizens being “lazy” and more about the distortion of the labour market because undocumented workers lack legal protections, unscrupulous employers exploit them by paying well below the legal minimum wage and ignoring labour laws. Still, if those undocumented workers disappear overnight, many exploitative small businesses and farms face sudden operational collapse rather than a seamless transition to local labour. Needless to say, for South Africa, a sudden exit of regional labour, much like Nigeria experienced in 1983, would not solve South Africa’s unemployment catastrophe. Instead, it would instead cause immediate labour shortages in agriculture, spike food prices and shrink the overall size of the economic pie available to everyone.
Sizwe SikaMusi51,267 views • 12 days ago
I seem to remember this being a dumb man when I was growing up🤔 2011:
Sizwe SikaMusi788,556 views • 6 months ago
Former American army soldier: Hey, Iran. Teach the United States and Israel a lesson
Sizwe SikaMusi474,905 views • 4 months ago
Junior buffoon: 🇮🇷Iran is not taking care of its people, instead it’s spending money on tunnels, missiles, launchers, UAVs. Senior buffoon: 🇺🇸America is a big country. We’re fighting wars. It’s not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.
Sizwe SikaMusi367,611 views • 3 months ago
President Duma Boko: I’ve told South Africans that coalition politics is going to be the future of politics. The ANC and EFF are going to have to come together, strike compromises to prevent the rise of Hitler in our region. (Except, the ANC is already in bed with Hitler)
Sizwe SikaMusi264,099 views • 3 months ago
In 1992, Sinead O’Connor performed an a cappella version of Bob Marley’s song “War” and ended it by tearing up a photograph of Pope John Paul II to protest against child abuse in the Catholic Church while telling the audience to “fight the real enemy.” Americans cancelled her.
Sizwe SikaMusi421,638 views • 5 months ago
In 1977, Johannesburg was just Britain in Africa, with Sunday lunches, manicured lawns, charity drives, elite English institutions like Roedean School for girls and King Edward VII School for boys. Of course, this entire ecosystem of suburban peace was entirely sustained by the Black labour force of Soweto and Alexandra, which had just experienced the world’s most brutal wave of State repression since the start of Apartheid. While White residents held charity drives for distressed dogs, South African police officially admitted to killing 229 Black people in the townships, though United Nations estimates placed the true toll at over 1000 dead...
Sizwe SikaMusi137,775 views • 2 months ago
Can those who know him please ask him what the difference is between the politics of Rebecca Oppenheimer, her mother and the other supposedly “diverse” Oppenheimer factions. He says his funder has “different politics”, which is really nice☺️ What’s that difference???
Sizwe SikaMusi48,767 views • 21 days ago
