Rugby.

So here we have it. Breaking news from an EFF rally somewhere in South Africa🤣🤣🤣🇿🇦🏈🤣🤣🤣. Because a certain leader of a certain (radical) political party in 🇿🇦 claims that rugby is not a white a man’s and that “our” people in the Eastern Cape played it long (decades) before “these” people, it must be true. The way he says “these people” mind you, shows his utter contempt for white people. If it was a white person, claiming that rugby was not a black man’s sport, Malema would be getting his supporters to go and harass and intimidate that white person and furthermore that white person would be the most despicable racist. Yet because it is Malema pouring that verbal diarrhoea out, nothing will be done, except for those of us writing about him or the clip being shared on social media, which will make a laughing stock of him in the rugby world.

At least outsiders to 🇿🇦 will know what nonsense the man is capable of talking. I wonder what the people of the town of Rugby/Warwickshire in England would think if they heard that absolute rubbish pouring out that man’s pie hole?! They should have called themselves simply “The Fighters” (instead of Economic Freedom Fighters) because all they seem to want to do is pick a bone and fight. Fair enough, if the team was all white, but is Siya Kolisi, who also led the Springboks to the ultimate victory at the World Cup in Japan in 2019 as well as this year, not black enough for Malema’s liking? Maybe it irks Malema that Siya has been coached by an Afrikaner? Maybe it irks Malema that the team and it’s coaches and management are not totally black – much like the national soccer team. Remind us again when the men’s national soccer team won a major tournament, even in Africa? Of course, Malema will blame the ANC and whites because the mens’ soccer team don’t win a whole lot, especially internationally.

If Malema paid any attention to the World Cup rugby tournament played in France recently he would have seen so many South Africans of all races standing behind the Springbok captain, Siya Kolisi and cheering him and his multi racial team on. Who knows what goes on in that mind of his, but he could well be very jealous and angry that he wasn’t getting all the attention that the Springboks were and how excited so many South Africans of all races were, here in 🇿🇦 and overseas? If he had sat down like a rational person and just researched the origins of the game of rugby/football, he would quite clearly have been able to see/read the history of the game. Who does he think the the William Web Ellis World Cup is named after? Some native gentleman in the Eastern Cape of 🇿🇦? Talk about trying to rewrite history to fit in with his own narrative. Maybe he is angry about the history of colonial and apartheid dominance and the injustices the native peoples suffered, but history, cannot be changed, it happened. Countries have been colonised through the centuries and empires rise and fall, that is the history of mankind the world over. The best we can do, is learn from history and not make the same mistakes.

Although rugby originated in England, it has through the years (almost 200 of them) become a global sport with people (men and women alike) of many nationalities, races and backgrounds, playing and watching the game and yet he has the audacity to claim that “rugby” is not a white man’s sport”. Are white people not allowed to play the game? Is that what he’s trying to claim as well? It is a sport that was originally played in England, but it doesn’t “belong” to anyone. What doesn’t he understand? Not much it seems.

Of course we know that radical left wing politicians (the world over) thrive on causing divisions and Malema is no different. Having South Africans of all races cheering on a common cause is not at all in his best interests because he thrives on causing divisions between the races.