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The right honourable Fikile Mbalula should have issued THIS statement on South Africa’s cricketers on Saturday afternoon.
As our world-beating Proteas slumped to a huge 281-run
defeat against the poxy Australian sons-of-convicts, we need the same sort of
wake-up call Mbaks offered Bafana Bafana when they crashed out of CHAN last
month.
Why does our Sports Minister not feel the need to decry our
cricketers and rugby players in the same way as he sticks it to our
footballers? This was South Africa’s third heaviest run-margin defeat of all
time, and it happened at fortress SuperSportPark with captain Graeme Smith
attempting to blame the conditions. I can only imagine it has something to do
with the inbuilt fear of white expertise which sadly lingers in our society.
Of course, just as Bafana can redeem themselves with a friendly win over Brazil on March 5, so the Proteas can fight back in this three-match series against the Australians. Hopefully they'll be fired up for the second Test starting at Port Elizabeth on February 20.
So I’ve crafted this for our beloved “bliksem hulle”
sporting spokesman, based in all but detail on his annihilation of our beloved
Bafana Bafana on January 19, the night after that awful 3-1 defeat against
Nigeria’s third team:
“What I saw there was not a problem of coaching, it was a
bunch of losers who don’t have any respect for this country, or any respect for
anybody. We must never wake up to this again.
“What did we come to see? Just a bunch of unbearable,
useless individuals. Let them be told their performance was not even
lacklustre, it was useless.
“We indeed have a crisis of monumental proportions and this
first Test match at Centurion has proved that. The mediocrity we saw over four
days is disgraceful. On Saturday, we saw a bunch of losers who lost by over two
hundred runs.
"We must go back to the drawing board. That mediocrity that was
displayed… we must never wake up to this situation ever again.
“Let’s not jump at one man. The CSA must look at this
thoroughly. Russell Domingo is not the only problem in the team. If we are
united, Haroon Lorgat would not have spent sleepless nights negotiating to get
the players in to the nets. We should have fielded our best team for this Test,
not a mediocre team.
“Some of the players think it is their right to be in the
Protea team, some have been there but never won anything. We must forget this
generation of players.
“They don’t respect their parents, their girlfriends and the
nation. There is a need for a new generation of players as the current crop
doesn’t respect the country. England did it when they got rid of players like Kevin
Pietersen, so why can’t we? They must make way.
“I love Graeme Smith but I don’t know what was going on in
his head. He was playing in front of his home supporters and I’m sure even his
family was there, but what he did was unthinkable.
“I could have scored more runs than him. He reminded me of
that spinner we got from Pakistan, who doesn’t take any wickets.
"I felt like just standing up and walking out.
"I saw people lining up after the game to greet them
... I won't greet them, I didn't even call them."
The original video of Fikile Mbalula’s lambasting of Bafana
is here:
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