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Pitso and David, you're invited to smoke a peace pipe- with zol!

The intention is not to convert these hotheads to potheads but to puff and pass and reflect on their acts of stupidity last weekend

23 September 2018 - 00:00 By BARENG BATHO-KORTJAAS

Now that the highest court in the land has made its decree, it is prudent that I invite David Thidiela and Pitso Mosimane to my private domicile for a chit-chat around a pot of pot.
The apex court, through that firm and unafraid deputy judge president, Raymond Zondo, decriminalised the private use of dagga on Tuesday.
So in the spirit of feeling irie, on the menu for my troika meeting with Mosimane and Thidiela will be dollops of dagga with various potencies.
Durban Poison.
Swazi.
Impondo.
Binga.
You name it, we'll have it.
The intention is not to convert these hotheads to potheads.
The idea is rather for them to puff and pass and reflect on their acts of stupidity last weekend.
On the agenda will be convo on anti-bullism. Add anti-tribalism for Thidiela.
Mosimane's insatiable appetite for firing verbal volleys is well documented.
At the receiving end has been a referee accused of being an attention seeker.
Among those who have felt the sting of his acerbic tongue have been commentators who've been accused of bias in awarding man-of-the-match accolades.
Mosimane seems to have upped the ante by literally taking matters into his own hands by moving to an imaginary boxing ring.
Mosimane allegedly punched AmaZulu security guard Nathi Ngwenya in the aftermath of Mamelodi Sundowns' 3-3 draw away to Usuthu at the King Zwelithini Stadium on Sunday.
The coach took exception to Ngwenya removing two supporters who had wandered into a part of the pitch they weren't supposed to.
In doing so, Jingles strayed way offside by interfering with the duties of the guard. In other words, the coach was way offside unless, of course, it is a closely guarded secret that moonlighting as a match security guard has been added as a key area of Mosimane's performance assessment.
It took the gloss off a six-goal thriller which was watched by a full house at King Zwelithini Stadium.
Come on coach Pitso, you are bigger and better than such aggression-fuelled confrontations, unless you disagree with this assertion.
What's next, a full fisticuffs with your own shadow?
The club has been complicit with its silence on the matter. Silence is not always golden and can be read as consent with a violent act.
As for Thidiela, he was imbecility and lunacy personified.
Unhappy with how referee Victor Hlungwani (mis)handled his team's home defeat to Bloemfontein Celtic, Thidiela not only threatened the life of the referee, he unabashedly tore into him like a Hutu on a Tutsi.
Have you no shame gramps, shamelessly fanning the fires of tribalism, mouthing off a moronic verbal diatribe about Hlungwani?
For a man who espouses exemplary leadership, Thidiela easily allows that element to escape him as he slides into an emotional, irrational tirade.
The acts by these two long-standing figures in our football must not be repeated. In a country bedevilled by fans who are constantly berated for bad behaviour, we need people in positions of authority like Mosimane and Thidiela to do everything in their power to fuel the flames of peace at all times.
We need our seniors to edify etiquette as en vogue rather than adding to the gallery of rogues we've seen ripping off expensive broadcast equipment and burning a stadium in a barbaric rage of violence.
To err is human and, indeed, man is erratic by nature.
But a helluva lot of people believe that decriminalising puff-and-pass in one's private abode is an error.
Erm, space cake anyone?..

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