So now that we know Richie McCaw plays the bagpipes, and has Scottish heritage, the Rugby World Cup organisers are being put under pressure from all quarters to lift the ban on bagpipes.
The Scottish media, traditionalists and rugby aficionados wa...
By Mohamed Fayaz Khan
The recent news that the PSL (of all organisations) is considering banning the vuvuzela from all future PSL games came as a shock especially after the vociferous support it received from Safa and all “true” South African ...
June 11 seems like an age ago doesn't it? It was only yesterday that us South Africans lost our collective shit in celebrating Siphiwe Tshabalala's goal against Mexico in the opening match of the 2010 World Cup at Soccer City Johannesburg. Since the...
We have entered the knock-out stages of the greatest tournament (arguably) on earth. The halfway mark is disappearing in the distance, so here are some of the best, and worst, things that have been a part of this World Cup so far:
The best:
Li...
South Africans should reject any suggestion that the vuvuzela is unpopular because we could not embrace such assertions without contradicting our own experience. The reality we know is that the horn epitomises the spirit of a football loving people, ...
With all the concerns about Bafana Bafana's chances of making it through the first round of the 2010 World Cup, the host nation appears to have been handed a lifeline.
It comes in the form of the mighty vuvuzela, a plastic trumpet which emits a n...
I note the extent to which the talks around ownership to the vuvuzela have since degraded to the shallow, and shudder with remorse as to how Africans continue to be accomplices in the death of their own destiny. But frankly, I couldn't care less abou...
What's the first thing you think of when you have visitors coming to your house? Is it not entertainment? It should be. Well, that's if you do get visitors like mine, who share a jealously guarded appreciation for Charles, Jack and Johnny, mixed with...
I'm amazed! I have come to a conclusion that some of my people are paranoid and some of my people are angry. I submit that my previous article titled "On the vuvuzela and tolerance" was probably one of the most moderate and fair views on the subject....
So, word on the street is that the Europeans want the vuvuzelas to be banned from the Fifa Confederations Cup and 2010 World Cup. So what? Even the "Europeans" in Cape Province have previously alluded to the fear of black people blowing the horn in G...
