In the beginning of time the animals were living in harmony
but had no leader. The animals all gathered and decided to choose an animal to
lead them in their kingdom. King Lion was chosen to be the leader of the
animals. For centuries everything in the wild was normal and calm under King
Lions rule.
Then one day something strange happened in the wild. An
object falls from the sky and at first the animals were very afraid of this
strange soft like object. It wasn’t round; it wasn’t eatable and tasted like nothing.
Up to today nobody can tell how it happened. But all of a sudden the animals
starting to use this objects to play a game they called rugby. And all of a
sudden their was something to do in the animal kingdom. It became so popular
that even the sea animals and the birds join in to play. The following herds
started to form their teams :
Bulls,Falcons,Cheetas,Griffons,Peecocks,Lions,Leopards,Pumas, Sharks,Cavalaries
, Stormers , Wildebeeste, Elephants , Bulldogs and Eagles.
But soon there was big fighting under the animals because
every one liked to play the game in a manner that they see fit. So it happened
that the vicious of the animals normally won the game and there were more
fighting than games played. King Lion decides that he had to restore the peace
under the animals and like it is with democracy he decides to go the route of a
commission to establish rules and to oversee all the games played by the herds.
At first he decided on those animals that appear to be old and not really able
to play the games. The Baboons was too scary but eventually he decided on the
Giraffes. Because of their long wobbly legs and their long legs they looked
down on the animals and would be the ideal candidates to oversee the rules etc
of the new game.
Everything seem to be working out fine but as social needs
expands the animals were still not happy and started to form gangs to improve
their abilities and skills . 5 Major Gangs merged from these gansterisms
- The Lion Gang and they consisted of the Lions , Leopards and the Pumas
- The Bulls Gang and they consisted of the Bulls and the Falcons
- The Cheetas Gang and they consist of the Cheetas , Griffons and Griquas
- The Sharks Gang – they fought the battle alone because nobody wanted to join
- The Stormers Gang and they consisted of the Stormers and the Boland Cavaliers
Smaller animal herbs were not included in the make up of
these Gang herds and tried to fight the games on their own. Like the Elephants,
the bulldogs and the eagles.
With all these gansterism in the games the Overseeing
Giraffes had their hands in their heads because their problems don’t seem to
end. The animals keep on moaning and nagging and powers from other angle keep
on interfering with the games and the competitors. The animals were so unhappy
that power and hunger were taking over the spectacular games they witnessed.
They don’t want their animal teams to be mixed. They want their own herds to
stay together. They wanted to see 15 lions or 15 bulls in a game , not 10 lions
,1 bull , 1 shark and 2 cheetas together mixed up in their Herd game.
And then the strangest of strange occurrence took place. The
forgotten 3 small Herds were struggling on their own and felt completely left
in the dark. With an uproar and with pressure on the other Herds and the overseeing
Giraffes they formed their own gang and called themselves the Emerging
Political KINGS and demanded to be included and be recognized. The overseeing
Giraffes now had a major problem on their hands. Their constitution only
allowed for 5 gangs and now there were six. What to do now. Maybe as their last
effort they decide not to make a decision. Instead they call all the Herds and
gangs together and force these Herds now to make a decision. All the Herds were
in mayhem because they believed that the overseeing Girafes should have made
the decision.
The scheduled meeting started and voting took place. All the
Herds waited for hours for the results. Then a shocking result came out. Nobody
knew why the Herd leaders voted in this manner. But the Herd of King Lion had
been voted out. The result was final and King Lion was devastated with the
decision. He, the King of the animal kingdom had been voted out and his Herd of
Lions will not be one of the gangs anymore. Why did this happen to King Lion
and who will now be the king of the animals. Will a new king be selected to
rule over the lions or will all the animals be without leadership.
But ex-King Lion had to accept the ruling. But the lion
tribe and their supporters will not leak their wounds and disappear. They will
fight back and return triumphantly
Epilogue. The moral of this story has nothing to do with
racism or apartheid. The moral is that when money and power becomes part of
sport , then the amateurism of the sport disappear
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