There was nothing inappropriate about what he did. He asked two grown women to rate him, they rated him and he rated them back. They didn’t like the score they got, then proceeded to make themselves victims on TikTok. Had he given them a favourable score, we wouldn’t be here today. The weaponisation of womanhood should not be tolerated.
Open letter to @GaytonMcK from SA Women's Hockey team player #ThatiZulu. An overdue letter. Both hockey teams have struggled over the years to get themselves to either the olympics or Hockey World Cup. The World Cup is starting in a few weeks and the teams are again crowdfunding.
Ah yes, Gayton. The man who once roared about the poor, the forgotten, the “baizanie” left behind by the ANC… now casually drops a R30.9 million World Cup shopping list and tells us there’s “nothing to hide.”
Of course there’s nothing to hide. You don’t hide the carcass when the whole township can smell the braai.
R7.8 million just to fly the Minister, the DG, support staff and a project team across the ocean so they could “be on the ground.” Because apparently Zoom still hasn’t been invented in the Department of Sport. R6.7 million for a legends match. R3.3 million for suites. R3 million for tickets. Another R10 million for fan zones, artists, branding and the rest of the circus. All while South Africans are still boiling water on paraffin stoves, sending kids to school hungry, and watching their clinics run out of basic medicine.
But sure, Gayton. Tell us again how this was “nation building.” Tell the grandmother in a corrugated shack who hasn’t seen a grant in weeks that her tax contribution helped fund hospitality suites in Atlanta. Tell the unemployed young man in Eldorado Park that the R31 million was an “investment in South Africa’s image.”
This is the Patriotic Alliance in government. The same PA that spent years screaming about ANC looting, only to discover that once you get a seat at the table the gravy tastes exactly the same. The GNU isn’t a new dawn. It’s just a bigger table with more forks.
Thirty-one million rand for a football tourism jolly while the country starves. And the best part? He published the breakdown himself and still expects applause for transparency.
That’s not accountability. That’s just rubbing our faces in it.