Ponderings of the Man from Mpofana...

South Africa's father is England & Netherlands, so essentially Germany. But biologically Sotho-Tswana & Nguni, so virtually Kongo. With minute Scandinavian & Asian mixes, that's Morocco. South Africa is essentially Mali, Mali or Mauritania. That's who we are.  All this time preaching about new mixed South African identity & it's already been done. SA is just waiting to be future Tuaregs or Hausa people.  SOUTH AFRICA IN THE FUTURE.  "Wassalamu aluikum brother El-Sipho Farouk bin-Dlamini. We hope the goats are producing enough milk for the desert heat. Inshallah." The future Tuaregs, South Africa.  The most common person in South Africa

My first encounter of the concept of homogeneity came when I read how some Italian football dignitary of sorts commented on when they beat a team that was a combination of every nation in the world (the French national football team) with just Italians at the 2006 FIFA World Cup. This Italian football boss then went on to mention the various Italian tribes (Campanians, Etruscans, Sicilians, Lombards etc.). I, in fact, kept that Kick Off magazine where it was reported he said what he said - it has Ronaldinho in a red jacket on it's cover - but seem to have misplaced it somewhere. I didn't think of it much at first because I simply thought this Italian man was just running his mouth, but I've had this concept of homogeneity at the back of my mind for a long time. After hearing this, you then compare which football teams do better, is it black teams, Arab teams, mixed-race teams... simply, football is a European sport so Europe should be better at it. So it's not an accura...