Yesterday’s FIFA World Cup Opening showed what this handful of hateful Ntelezi idiots have done for South Africa’s international reputation and decades of goodwill.
All the genuine outrage against illegal immigration has drowned under their violent acts, human rights violations and threats while they run around the country barefoot telling us they are “men”
Decades of goodwill built on international solidarity, opposition to Israeli genocide in Palestine, cooperation with other nations, gone to dust.
Football is a global language where even politics find expression, and these jokes about how SA at the World Cup is in a “rush to go home and defend their jobs and women” or how “They can’t attack Mexico because they are not African and Black” - this is not only banter, it’s political satire
It shows how the world view is shifting towards viewing South Africa as a hub of hate, something that has never been part of our identity. I mean we are being compared to Argentina and Morocco, who have committed human rights atrocities against Africans respectively.
The State should take responsibility for allowing hate groups which stop children at clinics, schools, beat people and in some instances incite murder, to define our international identity. It’s not a joke, and we cannot banter our way out of it. It’s a stain.
South Africa being regarded as the hate capital of Africa at a FIFA World Cup would have been unimaginable in 2010.
Israel is smiling wherever it is, because its mission accomplished. We have lost our moral authority on the global stage.
If we bottle a 9-point lead with the majority of the match at the Emirates, we shouldn't only sack Mikel Arteta, we should send him to the Strait of Hormuz in a boat covered in an Israeli flag.
Today i announce my retirement from football, Four different countries six different clubs, A boy from Muthurwa with a big dream, carrying a Nations pride everytime i stepped onto the pitch. To my family, friends, agent, the fans and the coaching staff that helped me throughout
This is one of those situations where law and legitimacy don’t quite align.
On paper, CAF may be within its rights, rules are rules. But football isn’t played on paper, it’s played in real time, under shared acceptance.
When Morocco national football team chose to continue the match after Senegal national football team returned from the walk-off, they effectively accepted the conditions of the game. The moment they stepped up to take that penalty, the protest,at least on the pitch, was settled.
That’s why overturning it later feels off.
Because:
Officials had the authority to act in the moment but didn’t
The game was allowed to reach its natural conclusion
One side lost on the field… then won in the courtroom
It creates a dangerous precedent where matches are no longer fully decided on the pitch, but kept alive for legal reinterpretation after the fact.
So yes, it may be lawful, but it doesn’t feel sporting.
And in football, once you lose the sense of sporting fairness,
even a correct decision can feel like the wrong one.
I really think Blue Ivy Carter and North West show two completely different ways kids can be raised.
Blue Ivy, the daughter of Beyoncé and Jay-Z, often comes off as very pplished and r£spectful. She carries herself with a calm, classy energy, almost like she was raised by a strict old-school Southern mom who doesn’t tolerate n0nsense.
North West, the daughter of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, has a totally different vibe.
She’s loud, bold, and very free with her personality. Sometimes it feels like she acts much older than she is, almost like someone who has been exposed to the world very early.
Even though both girls grew up extremely rich and famous, the energy around them feels completely different.
It looks like two different parenting approaches shaping two very different futures.
In many ways, it feels like the public already has a big influence on North West, while Blue Ivy seems more protected and carefully guided.
One looks like she’s already dealing with the pressure of the world, while the other looks like she’s being prepared to eventually control it.