@ItalianRugbyPod There was a moment yesterday which perfectly reflects this Italy team. It was Paolo Garbisi putting in an incredible tackle on a rampaging Ollie Chessum in the 78th minute. The Italy team of old would have wilted at the end, this one is very different gravy! #ITAvENG
@rugbyitalia96 Was a tough game when every single bounce of the ball went France's way. However, Italy also didn't have an answer for the tactical kicking, which is what France have been doing very well this 6 nations.
@contentcowboy I've followed you from very early on. Seeing it now being shared internationally, I'm grateful you decided to carry on after thinking you'd reached the end of it. This project is more impactful and important than you could have ever imagined. Thank you and keep it up!
@Ringo26 He always looks so awkward in these ads. Even after a photographer has taken a thousand shots and edited it like crazy. Rugby players not meant to be models ๐ Whose your pick for a career switch?
@LionsRugbyCo Amazing considering he hardly gets any game time ๐...don't worry the Sharks will come knocking soon enough and we'll lose another talented prospect ๐.
You see, all these Lamborghinis were bought with money stolen from the South African government by this tenderpreneur called Hangwani Maumela.
They cost millions upon millions of rands, money that was meant to serve the public in South Africa. They have been taken away by the South African authorities.
The tragedy is that if this man had not been caught, he would have walked away unpunished, as so many before him have done. And then, as always, the political elites would find convenient scapegoats to explain their failure to deliver public services.
In Zimbabwe, they blame sanctions for hospitals without medicine. In South Africa, they blame foreigners.
Yet the real problem lies with those same political elites who plunder public funds meant to stock hospitals, repair infrastructure creating employment, and buy medical equipment.
At least in South Africa, the situation has not yet reached the depths of decay that Zimbabwe has fallen into. But this pathological obsession among the politically connected of stealing from the sick, the poor, and the defenceless to buy luxury cars and mansions, remains one of Africaโs greatest tragedies. I have never understood it, and I probably never will.
To the ordinary citizen, conditioned to believe that foreigners or sanctions are the cause of their suffering, it may take time to grasp the truth, that the real enemy is not external, but internal; a corrupt political class presiding over a rotten system, stealing from the very people they are meant to protect.
Why would a sane man want to have four Lamborghinis of the same colour at the expense of your own black people who are dying because they canโt get the treatment they require. This man stole from Tembisa Hospital, a medical facility in South Africa that serves the poorest of the poor so that he could flaunt these cars!
They steal public funds to buy luxury cars while white people build institutions and companies. When they outperform us, we complain and hide behind excuses of racism, colonialism, and all sorts of empty rhetoric peddled by our political elites where they donโt exist or fit.
This is the root of our crisis; a moral and intellectual failure disguised as revolutionary. There is nothing revolutionary about stealing from your own people. The tragedy is that those in power would rather plunder public resources than invest in hospitals, schools, and industries that uplift their own people.
Until we confront this sickness of greed and denial, Africa will continue to glorify political crooks masquerading as leaders while blaming the world for problems of its own making.
A sane human being would never use their hard-earned money to buy four Lamborghinis of the same colour. This alone reveals the alarming level of intellect and emotional emptiness we are dealing with; a complete bankruptcy of values and purpose.
It is not just vanity; it is a psychological disorder born out of corruption and moral decay, where stolen wealth is flaunted as a badge of success while hospitals collapse, children go hungry, and public services crumble.
@jaredwright17 It was made more impressive by how bad the conditions were last night. George looks like he will have a standout season this year. Really coming into form.