Cape Talk, Wednesday morning

Conversation on Facebook. Like the Cape Talk page to stay up to date. Up to date. Edwin in Somerset, Wes, you want to comment on Tatiana's decision? Morning, Lester. Yes. Lester, I think there's a dual issue that we need to discuss here. One is the failure of the Sports, Arts and Culture Department and this Minister, and the mismanagement of funds that is not getting to our athletes on the ground. But the second one, that is a contentious one, is

A lot of white athletes and white people in this country have that dual ability to switch sides when and how they please. And it's a problem because this comes back to that issue of who is truly South African. Because a lot of us locals and indigenous people don't have that dual ability to switch whenever things don't go our way. We have to fight it out. So poor leadership and governance, but absolutely also a question of

How easy it was. Yeah, but Edwin, to be South African, must you struggle? And you can be a South African, but also say, I have an opportunity, I have the privilege of an opportunity to seek and continue my career elsewhere. It's more of an indictment, I think, for the other athletes who don't have that opportunity. I don't think it makes Tatiana less South African, does it?

It's critical to think about it from a different perspective. I hear what you're saying, and we will defend and support our athletes with all the struggles that they are facing with the sporting federations as well as this ministry, because we know we are living in a failing government that is not doing what they're supposed to be doing. But race politics is a critical conversation that we also need to understand because if Tatiana was a South African indigenous to this country without the option to switch SED,

Did that conversation wouldn't even be a conversation? We would continue to support her. We will be fighting these ministers, these people, these because when she wins, we all win and we would have fought for her. But now, if you throw us away that quickly, we then have to assess: are you truly one of us, or who were you just enjoying the benefits when you had it? You know, you have to. I appreciate the perspective, really do. Edwin Dean Summer said.