The Sunday Mail
Sir 18area.coms
THE way some South Africans want to mock everything Zimbabwean, even when they have nothing better to offer, makes me want to puke. The acquisition of Michelle Katsvairo and Edmore Chirambadare by Kaizer Chiefs has given some clowns across the Limpopo another chance to display their unrivalled lunacy. Once again Amakhosi are being accused of having opted for Zimbabwe because they get “buy one and get one free” deals on these shores.
For some time now our boys have been labeled freebies, called cows and as a columnist who speaks with authority in this land I cannot let that go just like that. It’s about time we tell our comrades down there a few home truths.
The Absa Premiership is not the best thing ever to happen to Zimbabwean football and anyone who believes South African clubs are doing our boys a favour by signing them needs their head examined.
It is the clubs who are benefitting by getting some real talent, talent they cannot deal without at reasonable prices.
The best player in the Absa premiership last season was Khama Billiat, and I challenge our cousins across the Limpopo to offer us a man – at home or abroad, dead or alive – who can match the brilliance of Billiat.
In a season that saw Khama take his game to another level, his fellow Zimbos like Evans Rusike, Willard Katsande Kudakwashe Mahachi and George Chigova proved their worth at their clubs.
And Sir feels it’s about time local clubs stop sucking up to their South African counterparts and demand respect.
Just how on Earth do you make sense of a modest club like Maritzburg United asking the Zimbabwe national team number goalkeeper to undergo trials?
Tatenda Mukuruva’s safe hands ushered us to the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations and a club that survived relegation on the last day of the season – thanks to one Zimbabwean called Evans Rusike – want him to undergo trials?
It’s a joke! Apart from the money there is nothing special about Super Diski, a top flight league that has most of its matches played before empty stadiums is not exactly my cup of coffee.
If the football in Mzansi was all that, our cousins would be Africa Cup of Nations fixed assets. Instead they are a disillusioned lot that once celebrated making it to the top table of African football when in fact they had missed the ticket.
These friends of ours seem to be failures who amuse themselves with useless flicks and nutmegs, a nation that celebrates its so-called Kasi flavour without much to show on the international front.
Thankfully our boys are made of sterner stuff and Kaizer Chiefs will not regret opening their purse to secure Katsvairo and Chirambadare. Amakhosi’s football manager Bobby Motaung knows as much.
“If I go to Zim there is nothing for mahala and the good thing about Zim is that since we have gone there, give me any flop that we have signed from Zim and that has been a flop, flop, flop?
“Obviously some players don’t make it because of challenges. But every team in Zimbabwe now has offices and we spend millions in Zimbabwe for your own information. In Zimbabwe they now use US dollars. You can imagine the Dollar to a Rand now. We spend millions, there is nothing for mahala … the only player that we sold in South Africa or in Africa of late was Musona.
“When I brought him here they said ‘buy one, get two free’, yet when we sold him to Germany people were angry. Look at the national team of Zimbabwe; they are the only ones that have qualified for the Afcon in this region, all of us are out,” Bob Steak was quoted as saying by Kick Off last week.
Well spoken skeem saam, well spoken.
Sir exits the scene! Sir is a social media commentator and writes this satirical column in his personal capacity. Feedback: [email protected]
