Springbok emblem under fire
Friday, October 10, 2008 (06:54:11)
Rugby's coporate sponsors and its hallowed symbol the Springbok came under fire from delegates at the first day of a two-day National Sports Indaba held in Durban on Thursday.
Sports Portfolio Committee chairman Butana Komphela told delegates that "the Springbok divides us. We have a responsibility to unite our country on one national emblem"
"Minister, I want you to observe the arrogance of white people on the Springbok emblem," he said.
Komphela said that there could be "no negotiation" on the Springbok emblem.
When the floor was opened to the delegates, many speaker called for a resolution removing the Springbok emblem to be passed as soon as possbile.
Sports minister.Makhenkesi Stofile said: "My view is that emblems are not matters of life and death."
He said that his view was that there should be one national emblem, which all sporting codes would endorse. Komphela said that the Sharks rugby franchise's failure to wear "Say no to racism" on their jerseys was nothing but "rampant racism" on the part of Mr Price. "Dealing with the legacy of apartheid cannot be dealt with by market forces," he said.
South African Rugby Union (SARU) chief executive Johan Prinsloo said that he could not participate in the debate on the emblem as he had not been authorised to do so and the Springbok emblem had not originally been on the agenda of the Indaba.
According to the sports ministry the main purpose of the indaba, among others, is to develop an integrated national strategy in order to accelerate the implementation of the national sports development agenda.
The indaba will focus on the number of critical topics such as "Politics, sport, transformation and excellence and access to resources".
Earlier in the day SA Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc) president Moss Mashishi said the country's poor Beijing Olympic results need to be examined without "stones being thrown at each other". He said the "painful lessons of this experience need to be examined soberly rather than be used an opportunity to throw stones at
each other".
South Africa's able-bodied athletes only managed one silver medal --their worst result since being readmitted to the international sporting fold.
In contrast the country's paralympians a month later enjoyed their best Paralympics to date, raking in 30 medals, including 21 golds, to finish sixth on the medals table.
Mashishi said that "now that we have given the big powers such as the Russians a fright we should put more resources into the team". Referring to the sports funding from the national lottery, Mashishi questioned why the control of those funds were not within the sporting fraternity.
An area that needed to be cleared up was the relationship between federations and school sport. "It's an area that is grey and hazy," he said.
Since Idi Amin and beyond,black people alienate themselves from a "colonial" past. Is this right or wrong?
While some of the reaction is against the colonial rule, I believe part of it is just the natural reaction of people who are let out from under control and as a result run rampant at first. You can see this in Zimbabwe as well as the corruption in Kenya and other African countries. On the other hand, you have countries like Botswana, who started as an organized, committed country from the beginning, thanks to an excellent leader who was not corrupt.
I don't understand the issue of the springbok, since it's an animal with no apparent racial characteristics as far as I can see. If they just want to change it because it is pre-apartheid, I don't mind. I agree with the speaker who said it wasn't a matter of life and death.
As far as your fears of losing control in Britain because of the black population, that is not based on anything rational, any more than it is here in the states. Our black population is about 13% of the entire population, and no minority that small can take control over anything but small local issues. I don't know what your percentage is there, but I suspect it's not a whole lot different. You seem to think that all the other people living in Britain will somehow be made to vote the way this small part of them want, which is, as I said, not rational.Since Idi Amin and beyond,black people alienate themselves from a "colonial" past. Is this right or wrong?
Look in the real world.
At first twelve - was a kid.
At second twelve - just out of school.
At third twelve - busy in bringing up children.
At fourth twelve - I am the Boss.
At fifth twelve - At loss and blurred without the middle and last chapters of the lesson.
At sixth twelve - kick the butts of own tribe and own community in moving backwards in time.
With unruly behaviour as the men who would be king with crown of thorns and two empty hands with two balls and self prides, self rudeness, self image of standing idol, self discrimination as people of different races of self racism with self lack of knowledge in kicking the butts of God in not worshipping God but idol worshipping the dead Mummy from someone else graveyards with self lack of knowledge too who was past dirty old man like you and me getting kick on the butts as casualty of the dead Mummy in not worshipping God in moving backwards in time.
Luke 6.39-40,41-45,46-49
What do you think?
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