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Listen here, I just wanna tell you that I scheme your vibe with us (South Africans) since you you’ve only been here for, like, a few days and already you are looking for stuff to whine about.
I know you don’t want us to do okay at something because for years we have just been so typically African and average at everything we do (well, not in our opinion but in yours), but for goodness sake, gives a break, seriously!
Is the vuvuzela really the biggest issue for you? I think they call it home ground advantage and you will be very surprised to know that all the foreigners who are currently visiting our country have been asking us locals to teach them how to blow it.
Did you know that we have actually been blowing those god forsaken things at our local matches for years? And did you know that nobody has burst an eardrum from them or gone deaf? If your players can’t concentrate then that’s too bad. If you want to ban our vuvuzela then we might as well join Neal Collins’ campaign for banning the bagpipes too and, while we’re at it, let’s ban the Otago chainsaws and let’s tell the English fans with their dirty chants to be quiet too.
I recently read a piece by somebody who has said that he hasn’t had the “African experience” at the stadium because we sold out to FIFA and we are blowing vuvuzelas. I’m not sure what they are on about. If you want Africa then maybe you should go to a local derby at Orlando Stadium and go eat some pap and vleis in our shebeens.
And sorry about the okes that are on strike, that happens here sometimes. It’s just our way of having a jol (a party). But don’t worry, we’ll deal with that too. It happens when you live in a country with 11 different languages and so many people from all our neighbouring countries to look for work. Sorry, we get lost in translation.
What you all seem to be missing is what this means to Mzansi (that means South Africa). You see, we’ve had a pretty k@k (sh-t) couple of months and the social divide here is still pretty huge, but the point that you are all overlooking is that this World Cup thingy is our way of getting together.
See, even the Afrikaans people who are apparently all racist (not really, but that is what you guys think, right?) are chatting to their local petrol attendant about the game the night before. Soccer is bringing us all together as a nation after a really horrid few months, not to even talk about the years pre-1994.
Yes, we still have problems. Many of them. But we are aware of them and this tournament is the slap in the face we needed to realize that we need to be a part of the solution and not the problem.
You see, sport is a funny thing – it makes people go nuts and for every goal our boys score, you will ear our echoes of Shozoloza resonate through the entire country and every time they sing the national anthem, you will hear the whole nation singing together because, okes, we are proud to be South African right now and you, with all your negative comments in trying to bring us down, is really just an irritation.
Like a dear friend said, be careful that your sour attitude is not spoiling the experience you could have one of the most unique and diverse countries in the world. And, if it does, sorry for you.
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