A high court has ruled that this hallowed arena shall revert to being called the FNB stadium, a name that leaves the imagination more shaken than stirred.
What the hell is going on here? This venerable calabash should be declared a World Heritage Site. It was here that Nelson Mandela spoke for the first time in Joburg after his release. It was the venue for Chris Hani's funeral. And it was here that Bafana Bafana never lost against Mexico.
Naturally, First National Bank would want their name attached, now that we have paid R3.3-billion for it to be turned into a work of art. Sure, they have naming rights until 2014. But that's not the point.
Banks have no business attaching their names to public venues like Soccer City. They are only able to do it because they have access to piles of filthy lucre. But it's not even their money in the first place, is it? It's ours. Well, not mine, specifically. Perhaps it's yours. If you don't agree with FNB getting the high court to force the name upon us, withdraw all your money and close your account. Keep wads of cash on display in your home, where it will attract far more interest from visiting relatives than it ever would sitting in the bank.
Bankers are usurers, and we all know what the Bible, the Torah and the Koran think of usurers. In Dante's Divine Comedy, usurers are placed in the inner ring of the seventh circle of hell, along with the blasphemers and the sodomites.
Next thing you know, we'll be naming streets after the Marquis de Sade.
Banks should only be allowed to lend their names to cemeteries, hospitals, homeless shelters, lunatic asylums and anywhere else we might end up when the banks foreclose on our houses and repossess our children.
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