The bums of Tottenham Hotspur, Chelsea and Manchester United are certainly squeaking, though not as loudly as the trapdoor that awaits Cyril Ramaphosa if the ANC’s share of the vote in the upcoming 8 May poll falls below 55% or, perish the thought, it loses its majority – not good news for anyone, except, perhaps, Jacob Zuma.
If the Kolkata Knight Riders fail, then its fanatical followers will not forgive Protea legend Jacques Kallis, their coach, for his stubbornly refusing to put West Indian Andre Russell higher up the order when he is in such rich, six-hitting form. Kallis’s rectum must be quivering too, one might think, if one cares to think about such a thing at all.
Russell has challenged Kallis’s decision-making in an ill-advised press conference, just as Magashule stood before the press the other day to challenge the authority of his leader, Ramaphosa. There are likely to be twists in all of these tales and addicts of both cricket and football will be flicking between numerous DSTV channels – there is a direct clash in timing between the two premier leagues.
Inside the packed Indian cricket grounds, India’s new elite parade their newfound wealth and power. Meanwhile billions of Indians follow the proceedings avidly, but from the vantage point of lives that are in the great majority of cases miserably insecure and precarious.
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