{"id":75,"date":"2018-11-25T13:17:37","date_gmt":"2018-11-25T13:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.sandilememela.com\/?p=75"},"modified":"2018-11-25T13:17:37","modified_gmt":"2018-11-25T13:17:37","slug":"township-mentality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.sandilememela.com\/?p=75","title":{"rendered":"TOWNSHIP MENtality\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I was waiting for my turn for a Bhuddist monk clean shave at the salon when this half-drunk, liquor reeking and loud mouthed tall man walked in and started ranting about Orlando Pie Rats victory.<\/p>\n

Without greeting he told me that “Pirates is a good team and Kaiser Chips are weaklings.”<\/p>\n

I know how to deal with this type. All I say is: you are right.<\/p>\n

I no longer have patience for township types who drink too much until wee hours and talk  nonsense just because some team has won.<\/p>\n

Winning and losing is part of the game.<\/p>\n

I have reached a point in my life where I don’t waste time and energy discussing soccer results.<\/p>\n

The game is done and over with and moaning about what happened or did not happen on the field yesterday is not going to change anything.<\/p>\n

This encounter reminded me of Bra Alex Mbatha from Dube who dismissed township .EN as heavily depoliticized and irrelevant.<\/p>\n

He had just returned with family from 30 years in exile in the early 1990s and was disappointed to re-discover township men more interested in Kaiser Chips and Pie Rats than issues of national importance.<\/p>\n

“They talk about anything else but soccer and women,” he lamented.<\/p>\n

I long lost the will to be a keen soccer fan. Soccer is the new opium of the people.<\/p>\n

On top of it, when I don’t want to engage with intolerant men, I just nod my head in agreement and say: I agree with you.<\/p>\n

Some men have nothing to say except to talk about soccer, sex and booze.<\/p>\n

It is a phenomenon called township MENtality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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