You Mustn't Push

A rundown of Episode 5 of We're Brothers, the weekly podcast I record with my younger brother, David. Link to the episode at the end of the summary.

In this football-focused episode, David and I dive into Benni McCarthy's appointment as the new head coach of Kenya's men's national football team. However, we also address the unflattering portrayal of Benni in some media coverage.

The episode title references a notorious incident when Benni, then managing Cape Town City in the South African Premier League, was caught on camera shouting an insult at an opposing player. TV viewers clearly saw Benni mouthing the unprintable insult, which involved the player's mother.

We take on the fake controversy whether Afcon is a major tournament.

Then there’s the chaos of football ownership in South Africa, where clubs relegated from South Africa’s top two professional leagues, buy the status of another club to get back to the top.

Finally, the conversation shifts to crime in South Africa, emphasizing that the real victims aren’t Trump’s refugees, i.e. white South Africans. It’s personal for us, though: recently, our first cousin once removed, Ian January, was shot and killed on the Cape Flats (the grandson of our late uncle Charlie, who passed away last year). This was followed by the shooting of a former student of our second eldest sister, who teaches at a primary school (combining elementary and middle school) in one of Cape Town’s violent coloured townships. But you won’t hear about this on social media, and there won’t be any delegations to Trump from our white compatriots regarding these tragedies.

This is all on the latest episode — number 6 — of We’re Brothers, available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.