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As the world celebrated the Springboks' Rugby World Cup win in Japan on Saturday, comments about tribalism quickly dominated Twitter, marring the team's' triumph. Springbok captain Siya Kolisi and winger Makazole Mapimpi are Xhosas, a fact that was used by some tweeps to pronounce the tribe superior to others.In part, the letter reads: “We as the Xhosa people would like to state that we're tired of carrying this country on our backs. Year by year we work tirelessly for this country, while the rest of the nation relaxes. We'd also like to state that this World Cup is the last thing Xhosa people are doing for this country.
With your sweet melodic language, your thinkers, your rugby, your legs, even your arrogance, the whole shabang.
This article destroys nation building.
Honestly its so annoying, who said we forgot about apartheid who said we forgot we are poor or forgot about unemployment. We didnt we decided to celebrate a victory that proves that we can do it as blackpeople regardless of what we are going through and what we've been through
We are all SAns living in this beautifull country we all love so dearly. Let's embrace each other and truly work together towards a better future for all, no matter who we are. If you want to destroy SA, then go ahead, I will not be part of that group.
1% are haters. They gonna hate. Ignore them while we unite the country and they look on in envy as they get left behind.
babalomkhonto7 Guys stop it maan eish not all of us are tribalism haibo guyz oneSA nothing else thanks Rassie&Siya ❤❤
I was hoping Timeslive would not promote this nonsense by posting it. Ca we for once choose the garbage that we spread to people. Some of us are not as sophisticated as others to decipher nonsense from facts.
Ignore ignore ignore. Only Ego at play for a few. Nothing is marred! StrongerTogether 🇿🇦🇿🇦
Let it not that after celebrating and hugging and kissing one another vanish into a thing air afterwards.
I find it fascinating that a simple joke could cause such a circus. I highly doubt that when it was written, the intention was to hurt or offend,but somehow it did. The message coming from the team was unity, are we so fickle that a joke destroyed that ?
tribalism and racism are the same thing !
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Tribalism “is the state of being organized in a tribe”... So Xhosas were proud of the input of their fellows.. beaming and celebrating it.. and they’re called Tribalist When Sho Madjozi and Sjava won BET.. KZN and Limpompo claimed them.. we didnt see this.. 🤢
The Truth is Xhosa's are Tribalism!
We just speak the truth, if Europeans don't like it, they know where to go.
Rubbish story
We’re not bitter, We just want black players to be given a chance to represent their country
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