Boksocology - The Verdict.
As a Kiwi rugby fan who has watched South African rugby over the course of the past fifty five years I have really enjoyed how the game in South Africa has evolved.
Now back to back World Champions, and a nation, through a lot of its youth, has embraced the game in a very special way, and it shares these many things with the world.
Yesterday's encounter against "my team" at Ellis Park was very special for many reasons. Gone are the days of Jean De Villers and Francois Pienaar, of Richie McCaw and Dan Carter.
Now it's time for the Sasha Feinberg Mngomezulu's, the Damian Willemse's , the Ruben Love's and Cam Roigards.
The new era has well and truly arrived, and while there are many disappointed South African fans around today please hear me out.
Don't panic.
This was merely game one in a four test match series. Never question Rassie, this is the man who changed the game in your country, the spearhead of what rugby in South Africa is, and what it means to the nation.
This is the man who turned things around in 2019 at the Rugby World Cup when an unexpected defeat rocked the nation.
This is the man who turned things around last season when the Wallabies had the audacity to do at Ellis Park what the All Blacks did yesterday, a second half performance from the heavens.
Last year a week later in Cape Town, Rassie turned the tables on the Wallabies, and many sensible Kiwi's are already expecting a similar bounce back.
The All Blacks win yesterday has ignited this series. It has given Dave Rennie and all of his men in black the self belief that the seemingly "doubtful" is indeed possible.
For South Africa, it has removed any sense of possible entitlement, and replaced it with "we have work to do". There should be no alarm bells.
Nature has a wonderful way of balancing things. Our two great nations have been at it for decades.
One wins, the other bounces back. We enable each other to be better, to do better, and to play better.
Damian De Allende's 100th game was still special for me. I still missed Siya Kolisi from the Boks team, and I ate my cake post game in solidarity with Ox Nche.
As global rugby fans it always tastes better if we can have empathy for the opposition, remain humble in victory, and salute the incredible scenes our beloved game delivers week in week out.
This is not the just the greatest rivalry tour for me, this is another chapter in the "greatest memory tour" , a tour where rugby fans over the years will look back and say, " I was there at that game," " or , I watched that", or " I remember that".
Rugby is the greatest gift that keeps on giving.
The tour continues...
Lindsay Clancy killed her three kids in Duxbury. She sent her husband out for food, then strangled them with exercise bands. She admitted it. Now the court is drowning in testimony about the 13 psych meds and 30 plus prescriptions she collected from different doctors and nurse practitioners in four months. She bounced between providers. She did not always tell one what the other had given her.
Fix the system so nobody can stack pills like that again. Hold any doctor accountable if the evidence shows they ignored the warnings. None of that erases what she did. Mental illness is not a free pass to murder your children.
She planned it. She carried it out. She deserves the death penalty.
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Someone tweeted that they want Elon to give Mel Gibson 100 million dollars to make a truly historically accurate Odyssey adaptation, real ships, real armor, real weapons, all dialogue straight from Homer, delivered in ancient Greek
Elon’s response: “I’m down”
LFG! 🔥🔥
I'm gay. Always have been. Love my husband, built a life together like normal people do.
And I'm so fed up with the Alphabet Mafia.
Pride went from 'leave us alone' to 'affirm kids, castrate teens, erase women, and call me a bigot if I say no.'
Transing children isn't care — it's child abuse.
Men in women's sports isn't inclusion — it's cheating.
'Minor attracted persons' isn't a sexuality — it's pedophilia rebranded.
I didn't fight for gay rights so the movement could become this circus of sterilization, compelled speech, and grooming.
Real gay people want peace, not endless revolution.
If that makes me a 'traitor,' so be it. Truth over tribe.
Fikile, you are the last person to comment "on the sad story of our people" anywhere. You personally have delivered far more misery to "our people" than any individual I know.
HEARTWARMING: A lonely 4-year-old named Roman waved at strangers every day after his father left. One neighbor finally walked across the street, and now an entire neighborhood shows up for his games, birthdays, and swim lessons. 🥹👏🏾
Never underestimate the power of showing up. 👏🏾