What an awesome week last week was! I have never felt so proud of South Africa and don’t think our nation has ever been so united.

So the week started on Tuesday 8th June 2010 at 5am with me jumping out of bed and deciding no matter how tired I am, I am going to ride the Gautrain. After dragging @za5 out of bed and getting dress in 5 minutes we were on our way!

It was so worth the 5am wake up and it made me realise S.A. was well on its way to becoming a first world country!

If you have not been for a ride yet – plan one soon: http://www.gautrain.co.za/

Then if my week could not get any better on Wednesday after a long day at work I saw a tweet from @HansHaupt about drinking Starbucks in SA! Again I dragged @za5 off to Sandton and hunted down the Starbucks counter in the Southern Sun.

If you have never tried Starbucks – YOU MUST!

Thursday – well a little while ago I decided I was going to get tickets to the World Cup Concert because Alicia Keys was performing. WHAT an amazing concert, worth every cent! It was absolutely amazing and I have never felt such spirit at a concert before!

Desmond Tutu is such an awesome person!

And then if it could not get any better, I was lucky enough to get tickets to Match 3 Argentina vs Nigeria on Saturday. My first ever soccer game. It was mind blowing, the vibe, the people, the vuvuzela’s and the spirit.

I drank beer (something I don’t do), ate hot dogs (something I love) and I even hanged out with the SAPS after the game and checked Police Clearance stickers on blue light cars!

And then I had this realisation about how sport does bring everyone together! Notice how we have not heard anything about Julius or Zuma in the last week!

Oh and PS. I love the VUVUZELA

Pic from www.ecr.co.za

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Stunning pictures taken by @za5

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All this bullshit about being *positive about SA* and ignoring Julius Malema is all a load of bullshit, if you ask me. Both these approaches only continue to promote the idea that the best ways to deal with a situation like this is to basically bury our heads in the sand and hope for the shit storm to blow over.

Julius Malema was given the freedom to do a large amount of damage in our country over the past two weeks and this reflects very badly on our current leadership. The current government has finally acted, but in my opinion their actions were a case of – too little, too late.

It is my opinion that the public outcry’s and media coverage on Julius and his actions is what forced the governments hand in acting on the “Julius Situation”. 

I promise you it was not the fact that the people said positive things about the country. And if we and the media had chosen to completely ignore Julius, it would have made it that much easier for the government to also ignore the situation.

I don’t know about you but I was ready to march to Parliament, throw dustbins over in the streets and set tyres on fire over the situation…..

What I am not ready to do is ignore the situation or bullshit myself about being positive right now, that is not what this situation needed. It needed people to stand up and say “Enough is Enough”!

“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. ” – Theodore Roosevelt

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