Meatheads Only!

Front page of the Cape Times this morning has an article about how Bevin Cornelius and his 4 friends were ‘asked to leave’ two pubs when they attempted to watch the Currie Cup finals. I can see two logical reasons as to why management would request patrons to leave on such occasion.

Logical reason 1: The 5 patrons were sporting Cheetahs jerseys and the establishment was the ‘Ons Bloed is Blou’ pub off Zambezi Drive in North Pretoria.
Logical Reason 2: The said pub was the ‘Skop en Duik’ on the R463 between Koffiefontein and Petrusburg, and the said patrons were sporting Anton Leonard benefit year t-shirts.

30 years ago the logical, and lawfully accepted reason, could merely have been that Bevin (no relation to Bevin Fontuin) and his mates were not white enough. Then peculiar I find it that this anachronistic reason in the very one given on this occasion.

I have never been to Villiersdorp and must admit I probably won’t summer there but who the (for the lack of a better word) fuck do these meatheads think they are. We have had one of the most progressive Bill of Rights in the world since the 4th of February 1997 and no where in it is there a section protecting the right to be a bonehead.

Imagine slap bang in there between the right to life and the right to human dignity is Section X: Everyone has the right to being a bonehead. It looks like a Springbok wing in a Blue Bulls backline, anomalous.

The problem is that there isn’t a solution to this problem. You can’t journey back through time to replay the game and have the course of events run differently. Mr Cornelius et al does have legal recourse but it’ll cost a hefty amount to bring this case before Pius Langa and his buddies. You can’t petrol bomb the pub, as those stupid tactics are no longer necessary. (and at R5,85 a litre it’ll cost the same as legal fees)

Even if you could find a way to fine the bastards and make them open their doors to all you won’t change their archaic mindset, and they’ll just move to another building. They’ll be boneheads for life. Even grammatically poor yet stylistically effervescent webblog articles won’t bring about change.

Best thing to do is wait for these boneheads to die out and pray that they don’t pass on their ignorance to their next generation. I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall when Bevin Fontein scored the first of the Cheetahs comeback tries…