Jy en my mede ex parkie GBS is mos computer boffins. Ek gaan vir ‘n maand in die kruger wildtuin rond swerf. Hoe gaan mens te werk om internet daar te gebruik?

Now here is my question:

Which one of you, if you were a Bill Gates or a Johan Rupert, let’s say, would have appointed Mr Makhenkesi Stofile as your CEO and his brother as your General Manager, with Mr Butane Komphela as Head of Production…….and go to bed at night peacefully with the confidence that your business was in good hands?

If you can answer ‘Yes, me, I would do so without any reservation’, then you shouldn’t be in business.
Rather go teach history or social sciences or something instead, or go work for some or other government subsidised organisation with endless financial resources (taxes, preferably).

LondonBul summed it up very neatly, you cannot use one sport to change all the wrongs in a society.
And read the penultimate sentence of Sjambok’s post, it is all there, what the role of politicians in sport should be.
How can anybody not agree with that statement, anyone of sound mind that is?

Charo said it time and time again, you cannot divorce sport from culture, or conversely, enforce sport upon a culture.
If that had been the case, than all the basketball players in the USA would have been white and all the ice hockey players in Canada would have been Inuit (Eskimo)!

i have tortured out 2 posts that now have failed to pitch – no more.
i am afraid the issue is not skin colour as you say above – i wish it was as simple as that. no, it is a culture thing and africans are way behind the europeans, chinese, indians and the rest. probably about 300 years behind. this explains the current problem of understanding each other.

How can you have respect for someone that is only ever part of the problem, but never part of the solution.

Stofile has been been given the authority and power to do something about it (for a long time now) but does not have the brains to be able to figure out a solution, because he is only in that position because of cronyism. They have butted their head to a pulp against a brick wall by insisting on transformation on the top down, but the practical reality is that if teh Bok coach only has five black players to choose from, then he can’t select ten. If a ball is blue, then it does not change colour because you have legislated that it is red! And that is what these power drunk morons don’t get. Their role is to nurture and vitalise the system to grow it in the way they want it grown, not just criticise and condemn. But they are obviously not smart enough to know how to do this.

The crime is horendous, the economy can do much, much beter and they harp on about this. And I really don’t understand why the Springboks are the only team in the world that have to do “nation buiilding”. Isn’t that the politicians job?

it is difficult to invest time and capital to a continent that has failed in every way.
i know sa is currently different and there is much that is positive but when i read posts like that of odogg and azza, i feel a sense of hopelessness for the white man here – much like the sense that eventually this dark continent will revert back to its primitive rooots.

I think the politicians are doing a **** job in governing the country, a lot of blacks are still piss poor. Now they are taking the heat of them by focusing attention on the demographics of the Springboks. I bit like Mugabe in fact.

very good point man but i am afraid you speak from a point of inexperience and possibility naivety.
i have lived or worked in probably 75% of sub-saharan africa and the culture is not that different from that shown by odogg and his minions.
i am happy that you believe that all can be overcome here in sa between whites and blacks but it will never be that way – sorry to say.
mbeki has set the tone – “i am an african” and the acceptable level of service delivery – police, hospitals, courts, schooling has followed suite.
fortunately, i am the md of a british shipping company here and both my wife and i have uk passports so we will, regretably, leave when the likes of odogg get out of hand.
very regretably, since this is a beautiful country otherwise.

Look I am not some rightwinger that emigrated and are then dikbek over the whole situation.

We both want the same for SA, and SA rugby – to be sucsess. We just differ about the way it should be done.