I Assume They're Insecure, Shame.......

Will it ever stop? I'm tired of people blaming other people for their misfortune! If it's not the blacks then it's the whites, but we're suppose to be one nation! I'm really tired of all this "SHIT"!

This is the latest in our wonderful South Africa, something that keeps us together, a sport that everyone wants to be a part of, or shall I say everyone but the politicians!

Cape Town – ANC MPs Butana Komphela and Cedrick Frolick have set their sights on rugby stadiums as a next target.

“We are on our way to taking away all stadiums from rugby…nothing will stop us,” Komphela said when Frolick asked eThekwini Metro municipal manager, Dr. Mike Sutcliffe, about the ownership of the Absa Stadium in Durban.

At least two rugby unions came under attack on Wednesday during a meeting of the parliamentary portfolio committee on sport with the local organising committee of the 2010 Soccer World Cup and host cities.

They did not attempt to disguise their negative sentiment towards rugby.

This follows news on Tuesday that the minister of sport, Reverend Makhenkesi Stofile, told the South African Rugby Union (Saru) to shift the Springbok-emblem to the right-hand side of the jersey to accommodate the King Protea.

According to Frolick racist attacks on black people after the Currie Cup final at the Absa Stadium (home ground of the Sharks) made him realise that the notion that certain stadiums are reserved for rugby and other ones for different sports should change.

Sutcliffe explained to the committee that the metro council own the ground on which the Absa Stadium stands and that there is a 55-year lease agreement in place with the KwaZulu Natal Rugby Union (KZNRU).

The council would like the KZNRU to move from the Absa Stadium to the new Moses Mabhida Stadium, which is being built for 2010.

At present the rugby union is not entertaining the thought, but Sutcliffe believes they will ultimately be forced to move.

“Moses Mabhida is a better stadium and hopefully we can use legislation to force them,” he said.

Komphela said something else than a rugby stadium should be built on the ground the Absa Stadium currently stands on “so that it can be for all the people of KwaZulu Natal”.

The Free State Rugby Union also came under attack because it is claiming R20m for loss of income from the Mangaung Municipality.

“I want to know what has to be done to get rugby out of that lease agreement,” Komphela told Mangaung city manager Thabo Manyoni.

Manyoni said they were opposing the claim. “We believe it’s an investment in the stadium, while the union say they did not ask for it and that we are wasting their time,” said Manyoni.

Komphela wants to meet with the Free State Rugby Union (FSRU) next week.

Harold Verster, president of the FSRU, said his union would exercise its rights.

Frolick, who called rugby “racist” and a "sport for criminals”, welcomed Stofile’s instruction to Saru about the Protea emblem.

“It is encouraging that rugby has also come into line. We look forward to seeing the newly developed Protea emblem, as well as the blazers and ties,” he said.

Frolick also took a swipe at the Afrikaans newspapers for concentrating “only on rugby”.

“The Springboks are not all powerful! The Soccer World Cup is! That is how we will express ourselves as a nation. The Springbok is a side issue. We are now in the post-Springbok period,” he said.

Shame.......... they really need to prove themselves for the next election!