The night Cape Town came of age

Now that the euphoria has settled following a famous win on Saturday night by the Stormers, another winner has emerged: Cape Town. The Mother City showed off as a mature, grown up city as host to the final and showed us all we’re ready to navigate out of the nightmare of COVID-19, writes Gasant Abarder in a new #SliceofGasant.is among the country’s most influential media voices. Catch his weekly column here, exclusive to Cape {town} Etc.

Apparently, according to Google, a swing is a kind of quick-release pass from the hip. It makes sense. Bar that, it was the only thing we inherited from Newlands, thank goodness. The Cape Town Stadium once again reminded us why it is a majestic, world-class venue for global sports events as it hosted the grand final of the United Rugby Championship on Saturday night.

It was a coming of age in a few ways. For Cape Town, we had an incident-free event involving 31 000 in a post-COVID-19 reality. It was arguably the biggest event in South Africa with such a large crowd since the pandemic hit and we nailed it, folks. It was a coming of age for a father and son. My son Ziyaad turns 17 next month. Soon, he’s going to be off to varsity and spending all his time with his mates. He may be too busy to do things like going to the ruggers with his dad. That’s okay. I cherished the experience and the fact that we could together witness the Stormers do the business, which made it all the more special.As for the Stormers… truth be told, I had all but given up on the team once dubbed the ‘Men in Black’.

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