BARENG-BATHO KORTJAAS: The disgusting, pointless violence of the Kaizer Chiefs fans
'I struggle to understand the madness in the method of visiting such violence on someone trying to make an honest living'
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In the blink of an eye and in a frenzy of lawlessness, several fires were started as the stadium went up in smoke. Scores of people were walking wounded.
I struggle to understand the madness in the method of visiting such violence on someone trying to make an honest living.
Did the victim miss the chances that Ryan Moon, Joseph Molingoane, Hendrick Ekstein, Leonardo Castro and Bernard Parker wasted?
The victim certainly didn’t sign Steve Komphela who declared “to whom much is given, much is expected” when he was unveiled by Kaizer Motaung and Bobby Motaung on June 17 in 2015.
Komphela, who resigned with immediate effect in the post-match press conference, has given Chiefs fans grief – barren season after barren season.
A man in a white vest kicked the person sprawled on the floor hard in the face. For good measure, the thug flung another kick to the torso. The person lay motionless. The person had been on the receiving end of a torrent of blows and was struck with plastic chairs by the bastard in a vest, part of a raging mob baying for blood like vampires on steroids. The person was was not Jean-Claude van Damme. The person was part of a Premier Soccer League security detail at Moses Mabhida Stadium where rioting Kaizer Chiefs fans raised hell when their team were beaten 2-0 by Free State Stars on Saturday night.The person was going to get a measly pay, which will probably not be enough to cover the medical costs accrued from the attack which left many other colleagues injured and a trail of infrastructure destruction running into millions. In the blink of an eye and in a frenzy of lawlessness, several fires were started as the stadium went up in smoke. Scores of people were walking wounded. I ...
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