Former Bok flank murdered
14 Nov 2011
Solly Tyibilika was shot and killed in Cape Town on Saturday night.
The news broke via Twitter on Sunday that the 32-year-old Tyibilika had been murdered on Saturday. Supersport commentator Kaunda Ntunja said on his Twitter account: ‘Makhaya Jack [a former SARU player and currently a Supersport commentator] has just come from Sollys home in PE and he has confirmed…Solly Tyibilika has passed away.’
It has now been confirmed that Tyibilika was shot at a tavern in the Cape Town township of Gugulethu. Police confirmed a shooting but had not formally identified the victim on Saturday night.
A witness from the scene told the Daily Voice: ‘This was not a robbery because they left all the other patrons alive and killed him – there was no conversation, they just shot him. And Solly clearly didn’t expect it because he didn’t show any sign of fear while sitting there.’
A number of coaches and players have expressed their sadness on social networking sites, and Saru has also released a statement lamenting the loss of an important player.
‘Solly was a trailblazer among black African Springboks and if the reports are correct, to lose him so suddenly and in this brutal manner is very distressing. The casual disregard for life in our society is shocking,’ said Regan Hoskins, president of Saru.
‘His emergence was a demonstration of what can be achieved when talent is combined with opportunity in what is always a very competitive position in Springbok rugby. I remember a very talented player and an immensely likeable young man who rose far and fast to become a Springbok early in his career.’
Tyibilika played eight games for his country, the last of which was as far back as 2006. He struggled to play regularly at Super Rugby level after that, and was until recently coaching the U19A side at Cape Town club Hamiltons.
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14 Nov 2011, 17:07 pm
@Puma(Puma)-175: THis thread is about Solly and your guilt.. fking faker
@Gunther(gunther)-184: Your perception of my activism comes from your upbringing.. remember how that was??
@Transformation(Transformation)-187: They have been trying to ignore me for years.. they even banned me. Exclusion is There thing but you are catching on fast
14 Nov 2011, 17:07 pm
@mshiniwami(mshiniwami)-194: Agree 100% buddy. It is shocking. A thread that was meant for us to pay our respects to Solly. Someone comes along and hijacks it for his own agenda. Absolutely disgraceful.
Would like to ask you about Dan. Will ask you on the Zac Thread.
This one was meant only for respects to Solly.
14 Nov 2011, 17:07 pm
@mshiniwami(mshiniwami)-194: Apologies. You are right 100%. Will exit this thread now
14 Nov 2011, 17:09 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-200: you dying to find out what it is……?
14 Nov 2011, 17:10 pm
also leaving now.
This is disrepectful of Solly’s memory.
Not sure I’d forgive Langers fro this disgrace, BUT…..
Our anger should be directed instead at the animals who killed Solly. no-one, white or black, succesful or unsuccessful rugby player, deserves to have his life cut short like this.
RIP Solly
14 Nov 2011, 17:11 pm
@grant10(grant10)-204: Not on this thread any more. Suitably chastised by Mshiniwami.
14 Nov 2011, 17:12 pm
@Finfan(Finfan)-188: Happy Birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Finfan, happy birthday to you
Glad to meet another outstanding person
and a Sharks supporter on top of it, dont know why people try mess wtih us Scorpio’s 
14 Nov 2011, 17:14 pm
@Puma(Puma)-190: How do I gain you c unt?? You were part of Solly’s demise as a player.. How dare you come onto this thread and look for sympathy!!!
@mshiniwami(mshiniwami)-194: Raising the injustice metted out to Solly is not dumping on him. Its glorifying his struggle against the Springbok racist regime
14 Nov 2011, 17:18 pm
@Puma(Puma)-202: My agenda is the wellbeing of those that were marginalised by you and your friends in SARU and at the sharks
@Helen(Helen)-205: You hated him as a speingbok because he was competition for your beloved schalk.. yep, go and sulk elsewhere.. fking B ullshitter
14 Nov 2011, 17:19 pm
@Treehugger(Treehugger)-207: Thanks
Very few people try mess with me – vicious sting in the tail. I’m sure you know exactly what I mean
14 Nov 2011, 17:22 pm
Shaun.
Take a step back.
A man was murdered.
14 Nov 2011, 17:22 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-206: okay….you will need to appy your pea sized brain then and work it out for yourself prat…..
RIP Solly….
14 Nov 2011, 17:23 pm
@Puma(Puma)-190: thank you puma, please dont let the insignificant one chase you away, just dont respond to him, it is easy.
14 Nov 2011, 17:23 pm
@youknowwho(youknowwho)-209:
Again, you are found out.
Schalk is not my beloved and I was a big fan of Solly. Still am, so please go away. You have done enough damage already.
I am asking you sincerely and from the bottom of my heart. Please go away. Your disrespect is ugly to witness.
14 Nov 2011, 17:25 pm
@Taahirah(Taahirah)-211: I will point out the fakers
14 Nov 2011, 17:28 pm
@youknowwho(youknowwho)-215: Do it elsewhere, you big fat fake.
14 Nov 2011, 17:28 pm
@Taahirah(Taahirah)-211: He is clearly very drunk. Just leave him.
14 Nov 2011, 17:29 pm
@youknowwho(youknowwho)-215: I didnt know the man. Never even met him.
But I witnessed a friend of his break down in tears when his (Solly’s) brother phoned her with the news.
No one close to Solly is on any “SARU’s fault” campaign, none of them are “pointing out the fakers”.
They just grief.
Let them.
14 Nov 2011, 17:31 pm
wtf has Tybilika’s sad demise in a township shebeen got anything to do with rugby whatsoever?
14 Nov 2011, 17:38 pm
@youknowwho(youknowwho)-215: I don’t know how you live with yourself. Is your mother still alive to witness all this?
14 Nov 2011, 17:52 pm
@Helen(Helen)-214: Please retrieve any evidence of your support for solly during rugby career. Also include evidence of your anger at his maltreatment. Keo ran a story on him… you never contributed anything
@Taahirah(Taahirah)-218: This is the first time that I sense sincerity from you… and you have humbled me somewhat. Please don’t disappoint me in the future
@Porto(Porto)-220: I hope you are not pointing at me.. remember the other three fingers
14 Nov 2011, 18:12 pm
Oh well.
As Midnight Oil says: My country, right or wrong.
Condolences to Solly’s family and friends.
14 Nov 2011, 18:24 pm
@Dawn(Dawn)-222: I really dig that song. “I hear you say the truth must take a beating…”
14 Nov 2011, 18:27 pm
I just love all their stuff!!!
14 Nov 2011, 18:31 pm
@Dawn(Dawn)-224: Me too. Got some of the very old stuff on vinyl, but got no record player.
Really like the album before Diesel and Dust (called Red Sails in the Sunset).
14 Nov 2011, 18:39 pm
Comedy show here I see.
Point No 1 – You have to be a moron to actually spew your life prophecies and get serious on a this site.
Point No 2 – Retaliating to any morons life prophecies on this site in a serious manner is almost as thick
Leave the poor soul in peace…
14 Nov 2011, 19:01 pm
Here we are coming to pay our respects to a fallen soldier and along comes some silly sad sack sore arse who tries to p1ss on his parade.
shameonyou youknowwho
RIP Solly
14 Nov 2011, 19:17 pm
Sad day on this blog all round.
15 Nov 2011, 00:54 am
Wow cant believe some of the stuff on this blog… as a player yes burger was better than Solly… but I dont remember tyblikia having a bad game for the boks… infact he was a very good player… its very sad that some bloggers are still sitting here hitting against him…. for those who dont believe.. life is bigger than rugby.
This blog should celebrate the life of solly tyblikia… no man deserves to go the way he did… he made a positive contribution to south african rugby and wasnt given any opertunities at the lions… he did infact have a good game for the ep kings against the lions
RIP Solly… hopefully thiis incident will help change crime in south africa
15 Nov 2011, 04:25 am
@cab(cab)-219:
Nothing indeed Mate… nothing indeed…
15 Nov 2011, 05:02 am
*** me this thread turned pear shape and it didnt take long as well.
Even after a tragic death some of you ( the typical ones) go out of your way to cause anger and talk cr@p.
RIP Solly
PS, dont read Keo in heaven.
15 Nov 2011, 06:58 am
@cab(cab)-219: @bryce_in_oz(bryce_in_oz)-230: you two are just being callous poepholle…well done
15 Nov 2011, 07:10 am
@Transformation(Transformation)-232:
Nah mate… this thread is pretty ******* sad… every Tom, **** and Harry pushing their own agenda’s from rugby transformation, to rugby skills, to selection to whatever rugby… and that includes a few of your posts above.
The fact remains… another poor South African has lost his life to meaningless violence… and it has fokal to do with rugby.
15 Nov 2011, 08:01 am
Having read all the above comments…
‘No single, essential difference separates human beings from other animals.’ So began a feature article on evolution in TIME magazine (‘How Man Began’, March 14, 1994). The more I thought about this sweeping statement the more I began to warm to it.
For example, like humans, apes have well formed rational faculties. Their ability to develop an argument, follow a line of logic, draw conclusions and frame hypotheses is quite remarkable.
Also like humans, apes have a marked faculty for language. (This, of course, is intertwined with their powers of reason.) Their vocabulary is enormous, their grammar complex, and their conversations deep and meaningful.
The apes’ ability to codify language in writing is further proof of their close relationship to humans. In this respect, it was most gratifying to see the number of apes who wrote to TIME magazine in response to the article on ‘How Man Began’. I was particularly interested to follow the line of reasoning of the orang-utan who argued that apes had evolved from humans, not vice versa.
Like humans, apes also have a strong spirit of inquiry. Their research in the fields of astronomy, mathematics, medicine and physics is noteworthy.
Apes also (again, like humans) yearn for meaning in life. This is why they devote so much of their time to philosophy, theology and ethics. The religious sentiments and practices of all apes can be traced back to their intense and endless quest for meaning.
Apes are concerned about questions not only of origin but also of destiny. The best proof I can offer for this claim is the maxim by one famous ape philosopher who said, ‘Whether my life leads ultimately to the dirt or to the Judgment, either way, I’ve got a problem.’
Apes also have, like humans, a refined aesthetic sense. They admire beauty and long to surround themselves with it. When an ape cultivates a garden, puts flowers in a vase, or hangs up a painting, what is it doing if not expressing a love of beauty?
Again like humans, apes have a strong creative impulse. This is seen in their poetry, painting, dance, drama and music. To a lesser extent their creativity is also evident in the way they gather in weekly craft groups to weave baskets, spin wool, knit shawls, and cover photo albums.
The sense of humour shared by all apes is another proof of their close kinship to humans. Their delight in the ridiculous and their love of a good laugh is plain from the popular ape jokes they tell.
… en so aan….
imo… lots of apes registered here on Keo….
15 Nov 2011, 08:04 am
Lord take these boots offa me
I can’t use em no more
It getting dark too dark to see
Feel I’m knocking on heavens door
Lord take this gun down to the ground
I can’t shoot it no more
There’s that long dark cloud comin down
Feel I’m a knocking on heavens door
Swing Lo, sweet chariot comin for to carry me home
Life is as it is, weren’t in our hand to get given and ain’t in ours when taken away, karma is the orchestrator of how it goes from one action to the next, and is inviolable and relentless from morning to dusk, from first breath till last, play your part well before the final curtain fall.
15 Nov 2011, 08:26 am
@Staal(Staal)-234: Classic!
15 Nov 2011, 08:35 am
All the usual sanctimonious idiots on their soapboxes policing the blog…*ho hum*
15 Nov 2011, 08:37 am
@Great White Shark(Predawn)-237:
Care to name some names?
15 Nov 2011, 08:39 am
@Dawn(Dawn)-238:
Care to piss off?
15 Nov 2011, 08:44 am
@Great White Shark(Predawn)-239:
Not really
Who are you talking about.
15 Nov 2011, 09:04 am
@youknowwho(youknowwho)-116:
“We were deprived of dignity…”
as George Benson said…
“No matter what they take from me, they can’t take away my dignity…!” these are very true and wise words…
point being, no one can take away or deprive you of your dignity… you can only give it away or surrender it…
just ask Luthuli, Mandela, Sisulu, Mbeki, Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Malcolm X…
yes, apartheid was despicable, indefensible, an abomination…
but all people are defined by their dignity… it characterizes them…
to say you were deprived of dignity is a cop-out like saying the devil made me do it…
yes.. you were deprived of your freedom and rights and land and opportunities and eduction and many other things… for which we can all rightly condemn the apartheid government…
how people reacted to the injustice and abuse and deprivation had everything to do with their own personal dignity….
but the only person who can deprive you of your dignity… is you…
15 Nov 2011, 09:07 am
@Staal(Staal)-234:
we are supposed to share 98 per cent of our DNA with chimpanzees…
a lesser known fact is we share over 60 per cent of our DNA with slugs…!!
human beings are nowhere near as far up the evolutionary ladder as they like to believe…
what really separates us from all the other species on this planet is…
our arrogance…!!
15 Nov 2011, 09:07 am
@bryce_in_oz(bryce_in_oz)-233: is this the first ever thread where a tragedy has befallen a former bok?
were you and cab as dismissive when joost’s motor-neuron disease thread was put up?
he was a BOK, a lot of people including myself interacted with him personally when he was part of the now-defunct SARU rugby academy at UPE and were proud of what he’s achieved. now this might not mean fokkol to you and you’d rather be up the arse end of john o’neill but that’s you.
if you’re not interested don’t comment on the thread or go to ruggaworld where they only have RUGBY-related articles, oh i see they have an article there on Solly but you didn’t act like a d!ck there did you…peophol.
15 Nov 2011, 09:18 am
@ufo(ufo)-242: you’re wrong, it’s not our arrogance, it’s our stupidity…
as is clearly displayed on this blog
15 Nov 2011, 09:21 am
@the peanut gallery(peanut)-244:
he’s very arrogant to have said that.
15 Nov 2011, 09:39 am
@Staal(Staal)-234:
15 Nov 2011, 09:52 am
The other two accused in Solly’s unlicensed/concealed firearm case were also killed by gunshot – both within the last three weeks. Add to that the fact that the shebeen gunmen told patrons to move aside as they only had business with Solly, and it starts to sound like someone lived by the sword.
15 Nov 2011, 09:54 am
@Transformation(Transformation)-243:
with you on this transformation… well said…
15 Nov 2011, 09:56 am
@Transformation(Transformation)-243:
You still cannot fathom it can you… it’s ‘comments’ being dismissed not the tragedy… it’s his rugby career being used on this thread by many to further their own (including your own) keo agenda’s/spats/trolls… his death has nothing to do with them… and most of you should be ashamed of what you’ve posted…
In a few years time his daughter will more than likely be trawling the web info for info and memories of he father… I only hope she never comes across some of the comments in this thread.
15 Nov 2011, 09:59 am
@ufo(ufo)-242:
hmmm i have never seen a slug blame a ref for the loss.
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