South African Politics
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Sports Minister wants Nick & Naas suspended
Supersport is investigating Ashwin Willemse’s on air walk out in protest against fellow rugby analysts Nick Mallett and Naas Botha, but in the interim the Minister of Sport and Recreation Tokozile Xasa wants the veteran SuperSport duo suspended.
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@salacious-crumb To be fair they are white!
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@salacious-crumb If they're continually referencing him as a quota player without meaningful and relevant context then they should go. Willemse on the other hand is clearly a quota panelist. Nothing he says makes any sense or appears to have any rational objectivity in relation to the topic being discussed. Someone should review tape to see how many head knocks he took during his career.
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What did they actually say? Plenty of info on his response but nothing about what set him off.
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He may have been unfairly treated. But interventionist government officials should pull their heads back in until SuperSport has done their own investigation.
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@salacious-crumb I agree with you, but you know; TIA...
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Well that was a depressing and infuriating watch.
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@baron-silas-greenback yeah I'm going to be saving watching it until such a time that I don't need to have a good demeanour.
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I would’ve liked more solid information about how widespread the crimes are (not anecdotal). Difficult given the apparent lack of interest from the government.. but it felt like the doc was missing a segment.
Still, it was better than I was expecting from an e-celeb making their first documentary.
Any tsf saffers seen it?
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@duluth I'll post up some chats at some point with one of the blokes in my political group. He's black south african and his point of view is the crimes are happening but that the same level of crime if not worse is occurring in black communities too but it's so common place it doesn't make the news. He did his rebuttal before watching the doco however. It is important to remember Southern can be super biased so it's good to get another point of view.
I'll probably watch it next week.
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@baron-silas-greenback said in South African Politics:
What the hell would SA do if the US decided to "sort it out"
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Sort what out?
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@hooroo said in South African Politics:
@antipodean said in South African Politics:
Sort what out?
The land grab as the US sees it.
None of their fucking business.
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@antipodean said in South African Politics:
@hooroo said in South African Politics:
@antipodean said in South African Politics:
Sort what out?
The land grab as the US sees it.
None of their fucking business.
OK. So what?
I'm still curious as to what SA would do
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@hooroo said in South African Politics:
@antipodean said in South African Politics:
@hooroo said in South African Politics:
@antipodean said in South African Politics:
Sort what out?
The land grab as the US sees it.
None of their fucking business.
OK. So what?
I'm still curious as to what SA would do
Depends on what you mean by USA "sorting it out". Do you mean a military intervention because what else is that cheeto looking retard going to do, slap some tariffs on them?
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@antipodean said in South African Politics:
@hooroo said in South African Politics:
@antipodean said in South African Politics:
@hooroo said in South African Politics:
@antipodean said in South African Politics:
Sort what out?
The land grab as the US sees it.
None of their fucking business.
OK. So what?
I'm still curious as to what SA would do
Depends on what you mean by USA "sorting it out". Do you mean a military intervention because what else is that cheeto looking retard going to do, slap some tariffs on them?
I was thinking either/or (tariffs or physical intervention, which would be very unlikely)
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Some tariffs won't do shit. The power rests with a very small subset of South African populace and the only thing that's changed is their tan. Poor blacks are still having a shit time of it.
Any intervention simply looks like what it really is; unwarranted intervention in a sovereign democracy. But this would look worse because it's against black people who have finally got to determine their own future.