Thursday, July 08, 2010

It was billed as the World Cup for Africa but is turning out to be the greatest humiliation for black Africa. We now know that Spain will be playing the Netherlands for the trophy on sunday and the Dutch speaking Afrikaners will be cheering for the Netherlands, the country of their ancestors. We do not know what has been decided? Will it be a case of third time lucky for Netherlands or will Spain be allowed to win the very first time they have managed to reach the final. Will the blacks be cheering for a Spanish victory? Come what may Mr. Jacob Zuma, who prides himself on his Zulu origins, will have to present medals to the Dutch team and may even have to hand over the cup itself. There is bound to be talk of integration, of racial harmony in the Rainbow nation and of how South Africa staged the biggest sporting festival in the world but the Afrikaner will not see it that way. For the white Afrikaner it will be proof of superiority of the Dutch over the blacks none of whom, except Ghana, could get past the group stage. It will not matter that this Netherlands team is a team of thugs committing dangerous fouls against opponents all of which went unpunished. What will matter is that the President who was dancing at his fourth ( or was it his fifth ) wedding a few months ago will be hanging medals around the necks of the people who are of the same stock as the people who confined Mr. Zuma's people into Bantustans only allowing them to come to white suburbs to work as servants. The murder of Eugene Terreblanch is still fresh in their minds and how they will enjoy. It was indeed a well organised World Cup.

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