Starting a speaking career with no bookings and no client list teaches you fast.
I built five talk titles before I had one audience. Wrote three bios before anyone asked for one. Practised outreach scripts on a market of zero replies.
Credibility comes after the work, not before it.
If you're starting from scratch too, build the structure first. The stage comes later.
@BlackMarcoSC Spot on. R50 tickets don't matter when transport costs double that, paired with late night kickoffs.
Soweto giants rely on national branch networks that organize travel convoys. Sundowns need organized township shuttles & active branch structures, not just cheaper seats.
@GaytonMcK@OfficialPSL Spot on, Minister. Honestly, it starts at school level. If our kids donโt learn that itโs football and not WWE on the school grounds, they grow up to turn the pitch into a royal rumble! Come Monday I hope you will delegate action to someone to run with the school football agenda.
Dillon Solomons gets far too much hate. He was one of our standout players last night, even in that terrible first half. He kept showing for the ball, driving forward and trying to make things happen. Some fans have already decided what they think of him, so they overlook the good. Give Dillon his flowers.
@ndux_m Everything is going to be okay. โค๏ธ
You donโt have to have all the answers today.
Take a breath. Take it one step at a time.
God is with you, even in this moment.
This too shall pass. ๐๐พโค๏ธ
I agree with this take on Nkosingiphile Ngcobo. His football IQ, vision, touch and understanding of space are exceptional. His biggest limitation is athleticism, especially in todayโs frantic, transition-heavy game. Slow the game down and you see the footballer. Speed it up and his brilliance gets suffocated. Few players in the league see the game like him.
Calling Pitso โgreedyโ reduces a serious football discussion to an attack on his character.
Pitso Mosimane is one of the most accomplished African coaches of his generation. If SAFA wants his experience, tactical team and technical standards, they should expect to pay for them.
Broos being successful does not mean Pitso has no value. And Pitso having failed with Bafana before does not erase everything he achieved afterwards. Coaches grow, gain experience and improve.
The real question should be whether Pitso is the right man for Bafana now, what his technical plan is, and whether SAFA can afford the structure he believes he needs.
Wanting proper compensation for your expertise is not greed.
There is a fair point here about reducing Mshiniโs whole performance to the chances he missed. But there is also a bigger question around development.
Mshini was part of a DDC generation at Chiefs that showed serious promise. Yet when you look at that group today, how many have genuinely developed into the senior players we expected them to become?
At some point we have to stop assessing these players only on flashes of talent and ask whether the transition from DDC potential to consistent senior-level performance has worked.
Mshini has quality. He also has to take responsibility for those missed chances. Both things can be true.
The bigger concern for me is that he is not alone. None of the players from that successful DDC group have fully lived up to the potential they showed at that level.
So perhaps the conversation should be bigger than one player and one match. What happened to that generation, and what does it say about Chiefsโ player development pathway?
The loss to Golden Arrows was disappointing, but the performance offered signs of progress. Chiefs controlled possession, created 20 attempts and dictated large parts of the game. The concern is conversion. If they become more clinical, a Top 2 finish is within reach. The next few league games will show whether this is genuine progress or another false start.
We need to separate political sentiment from the facts.
President Zuma is a former Head of State and should be treated with dignity and respect. At the same time, former presidents are subject to the same laws, policies and administrative processes governing state benefits, security arrangements, vehicles and official residences.
Comparisons with former President Mbeki need to account for the policies and circumstances applicable at the time. Government support for former presidents is not a personal entitlement outside those frameworks.
If there are credible concerns about pension benefits, official vehicles or the maintenance of a former presidentโs residence, the right approach is to establish the applicable policy, determine whether government is complying with it, and hold the responsible department accountable.
South Africa needs strong institutions, not preferential treatment for political allies or opponents. Former presidents deserve dignity, but public resources must also be managed according to law, policy and the public interest.