Controversial poet Ntsiki Mazwai is at it again, spewing out vitriol in the direction of the Springboks. Not even their achievement on Saturday could save them from a fresh Mazwai attack.
She posted a video on Twitter of her reciting a poem titled "I Will Not Play Along With You" along with a caption saying "f**k the Springboks".
In the poem, the Qhawe singer lists the reasons she refuses to support the Boks, which include that "the team doesn't represent the demographics of the country".
Rugby is a stronghold for racism in South Africa, she says, black people are excluded from the sport deliberately, Afrikaans men play tricks to keep black boys out of the sport and that out of 31 players there were only seven black people representing a black country.
Mazwai finishes the poem by saying that if they wanted her to support the Springboks, they needed to give her a team that reflected her and her life. I Will Not Play Along With You F*** the Springboks kahle kahle #RugbyWorldCupfinal pic. twitter.com/HgC6yZ5wyh— #Qhawe OUT NOW (@ntsikimazwai)
But the tweeps weren't happy, especially following the Springboks winning the Rugby World Cup, with Siya Kolisi as the first black captain.
"We'll also not play along with you & your bitterness. We're busy celebrating with our very own Tendai Mtawarira pic.twitter.com/ P0jKa3Ybdl— Jack (@karidzaJack)
Ntsiki what have you actually done for the black community besides moan about white people? – kaygee (@Kaydaviper)
Mazwai first shared her thoughts last week when she tweeted that she found the rugby team to be an "apartheid trigger".
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