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Mngxitama wants to ‘have a beer’ with ‘brother’ Kolisi

The BLF leader adopts a surprisingly measured approach to the Springbok captain's controversial quota comment, but much of Twitter is outraged.


In a somewhat surprisingly restrained tone, Andile Mngxitama has offered Springbok captain Siya Kolisi the opportunity to “have a beer” with him following the flanker’s controversial comments on transformation at the weekend.

Kolisi told a Japanese news outlet that he believed late President Nelson Mandela wouldn’t have supported quotas and also expressed his belief that true transformation should exhibit a bottom-up approach.

“You shouldn’t put a number on stuff like that. If you want to talk about transformation, you have got to start there (at a grassroots level). Imagine I hadn’t gone to an English school. I wouldn’t have eaten properly, I wouldn’t have grown properly and I wouldn’t have had the preparation that the other boys did,” he said.

The Black Land First Leader doesn’t agree with the Bok skipper, but seems more than willing to have a constructive conversation with him on the matter.

https://twitter.com/AndileMngxitam1/status/1082280120604348416

Rather unsurprisingly though, many Twitter users weren’t as measured.

https://twitter.com/Art_Scholar/status/1082295036304347137

https://twitter.com/siyazi/status/1082291090127024128

One user even went as far as questioning Kolisi’s ability as a rugby player.

But there was some support.

https://twitter.com/kevykay10/status/1082290673120882690

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