Sport

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. For months now I have been hammering South African selectors who even dared to breathe the word “quota”, yet Andre Nel, a South African who would die for the cause, is being axed due to racism — and if those selectors are misguided, how about the geniuses […]

On the night of the 27th of December 1944, squadrons of Allied B24 bombers pounded Hamburg into dust — which coincidentaly also happens to be the date that Makhenkesi Arnold Stofile, South Africa’s Minister of Sport and Recreation, was born. Left unchecked he and his brother Mike could well do to rugby and soccer what […]

So there I was watching SuperSport the other night and having to stomach another drawn result by Kaizer Chiefs — another one among so many that I have lost count! I was just about ready to curse my way out of the lounge and make my way to the bedroom when I decided to hang […]

Thapelo “Jigga” Moloantoa is the web editor and communications assistant of the Premier Soccer League’s official website. He is also a full-on bagel (the male version of a kugel). Before I catch anyone sniggering, let me break it to you — the number of black kugels and bagels is growing exponentially by the day (remember, […]

Schalk Burger’s behaviour on Saturday was unacceptable. And if it were my decision, I’d give him another two weeks for the press statement he made on Thursday — or at least insist he fire his copywriter. The sentence was somewhat surprising given that some reports stated that he could be suspended for a month or […]

Last week, Peter de Villiers let the nation know that John Smit would continue as Springbok captain. As decisions go, this was a no-brainer, Smit being a well-respected captain, a great player and the man who led the Boks to World Cup glory.

You put the slime in the coconut — you drink it all up … Sports and recreation portfolio committee chairperson Butana Komphela has demanded that any players who rose up against Norman Arendse’s insistence that the cricket squad to Bangladesh be more in line with transformation be given their marching orders. Once again I feel […]

While a previous blog dealt with the issue of the judiciary, this one should not be seen in tandem. And let me also clarify that this is a question, not an attack on anybody or any institution. I am just crazy about sport and do not like to see the image of the game (any […]

Just when we need it most, hope has burst on to the South African scene in the form of the sunshine start of the 2008 rugby season. While our politicians are indubitably the scum of the earth, a malignant, avaricious cANCer and the archetypal kakistocracy, and our organs of the state are terminally leprous with […]