The British and Irish Lions will visit South Africa in July and August and the patriots on social media crowed about the drubbing the Lions will receive at the hands of the Springboks, advising SAFA (the body that controls football) and Bafana Bafana to keep their notebooks handy. The comparisons between the hapless national soccer team, known as Bafana Bafana, and the national rugby team, the “all-conquering” Springboks who are current world champions, flooded social media. South Africa may still not qualify for the FIFA World Cup scheduled for Qatar in 2022. The March 28, 2021, 2-0 loss to Sudan booted South Africa’s national football team out of the grand African Cup of Nations soccer spectacle to be held in Cameroon in January 2022. They have bought into the apartheid ideal of exclusion and exclusivity. The National Department of Sport, Arts and Recreation lacks the imagination, knowledge, and passion to rebuild sport in this country. The drive to professionalize all sports in South Africa has killed off community spirit and the sporting rivalries that built social cohesion in the country.
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