Dear Bafana
You answered most emphatically last night, with a sparkling victory over that top Afcon team, Morocco.
I ate my words this morning, with my breakfast cereal - delicious. I was glad to admit being wrong. Something that most of our comrade politicians would never do. Not even under threat of waterboarding or, worse, being forced to listen to Zuma tapes played backward.
(Pretty much the same as Zuma tapes played forward, I've heard).
The next time that Mr Kodwa, (minister of sports, arts and culture) comes to coach you, as he seemingly did last time, you might want to coach him instead. Lord knows his party has crying need of some good coaching in self-correcting (an ANC favourite). You guys did that, cutting out the buffoonery and pointless passing of the ball back and forth, without actually going anywhere.
They (the ANC) have forgotten what the goalposts look like - if they ever knew. They have scored more own goals than all the goals scored in the Afcon competition to date. I mean all Afcon competitions.
Please give us some more to cheer about in the next encounter. Heaven knows, we've had little enough these past thirty years or so. And less before that, with team Verwoerd, Vorster, Botha and others.
Please don't do a Mabena ("Disappoint me again, Mabena!"). I'd like to avoid tracting and retracting in successive articles. Yes I know, 'tracting' is a new word. So many articles waiting to be written about corruption, incompetence, buffoonery. And tomfoolery, buffoonery and clowning. And....
This is epecially so, as our next probable own-goal disaster looms at the polls this year. We will, in all likelihood, do one of those useless back passes to the ANC. Or, Lord forbid, to the EFF or the brand new uniquely South African joke, MK.
Sorry - pause to recover from uncontrollable gusts of laughter.
Of course, if it's the ANC, expect the usual fumbling and dropping of the ball. Followed by the usual howls, boos and protests from the very fans who voted the team in. There will be calls for changes in team management. Some will opine that things were better under the Zuma team. I suppose the word 'fan' has links to the word 'fanatic'. A word that rhymes badly with 'common sense' and 'reason'.
Team South Africa, under the comrades, is also moving along in the world rankings. Bound for the Corruption Quarter Finals, according to an item on this morning's news. 'Flawed democracy' was a term used. A foul-mouthed friend asked if there is an 'effed democracy' category. As I abhor gratuitous vulgarity as much as the ANC abhors corruption and deceit, I told him to fu..., I mean, bugger off.
Your performance last night was a ray of light amid the usual ANC / Eskom gloom. Winning really means a lot when, as a nation, you've been taking a beating for so long. Particularly, when the new management team promised so much and carried so many hopes.
Well played, Bafana.
The struggle continues, along with the scuffle.
Richard
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