CHRIS ROPER: A ‘Corruption Olympics’ anyone?
A ‘Corruption Olympics’ would give real meaning to a contest between strongmen and strongwomen. SA is a bit off the pace on this count, though the DA may disagree
For the past few years, an Argentinian friend and I have been kicking around the idea of a Corruption Olympics. Instead of wasting time watching countries compete based on the weird measurement of who can jump over a pole, or who can dive into a pool making the smallest splash, let’s have a proper strongman/strongwoman metric.
The rationale behind competitive sport between nation states appears to be: "Look! We have people who can spend their entire lives running around after a ball, or lifting heavy weights, which means — hurrah! — we are a country of strong people and deserve money and praise. The richest, bestest countries can waste lots of money on making sure we can throw a ball through a hoop more times than lesser countries, therefore we deserve to be Number! One!"..
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