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  • Local Columnist Tries To Justify Cheering For The All Blacks Against The Springboks

    02 Oct 2013 by Jasmine Stone in Rugby
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    Local columnist, Andile Mngxitama has launched a scathing attack on Springbok rugby in a column published by the City Press, titled ‘Springboks are a perfect metaphor for SA’. Mngxitama kicked off his column with, “If one has a sense of history and justice, the offending spectacle of a white team representing a black nation is too much to bear”, and went from there.

    The central premise of Mngxitama’s argument was thus:

    In that sense, my disloyalty to the Springboks is a loyalty to transformation. For the record, I don’t actually dislike the players and administrators per se, but the fact that our rugby team is the perfect metaphor for South Africa – a white nation managed by blacks to perpetuate white privilege.

    That 20 years later we have a white team is not an indictment on whites, but on blacks who have been given a mandate to transform South Africa from its racist antiblack past to a nation we all can be proud of.

    Regarding the Bok loss to the All Blacks in Dunedin some weeks back due to what has been widely recognised as on of the worst examples of refereeing in the history of the game, Mngxitama said, “The bad refereeing that cost the Boks the game was merely poetic justice and karma.”

    Some other highlights included:

    White people genuinely believe in the myth of their superiority to black people, a myth created by colonialism and apartheid.

    They exist in the bubble of white ignorance and lies. To ask such a group to transform into a different society is to place an impossible and cruel responsibility on them. They simply wouldn’t know what to do and how

    CLICK HERE to read the whole thing.

    [Source : CityPress]

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