EDITORIAL: What Cyril can learn from Siya
Those in his cabinet who do not buy into the plan should be benched, if not dropped altogether
07 November 2019 - 05:00
Sport and politics make poor bedfellows. But after the Springboks’ astonishing victory in the Rugby World Cup final against England on Saturday, sport — and rugby in this case — has a lesson for politics, and President Cyril Ramaphosa in particular.
The Boks, according to the most patronising critics (especially the English) were big, brutal and efficient rather than adventurous, nimble and imaginative. And efficiency, they said at the start of the event, wouldn’t be good enough against the likes of Ireland, Wales, England or the All Blacks...
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