Welcome back, Mhlekazi, as we continue with our interesting conversation! Well, we can’t talk about Bush Bucks and not touch on the topic of muti.
Eish, uyabona ke mna ke ndingumntu othanda ukuphuma ecaleni (you see I’m someone who doesn’t go with the flow). This thing of iyeza (muti), I still don’t believe in it to this day. I usually say to people that if muti was working in football, then Bafana Bafana would have won the World Cup; an African team should have won the World Cup. If you are a muti man, you should help a team like (Kaizer) Chiefs or (Orlando) Pirates, those ones that are always looking to win the league, so that they can win it back-to-back. You would be a multi-millionaire. Just go there and say, “Here. If you win it, give me R2 million from the R15 million prize money every year.” Even you in the rural areas, you don’t have a team that you can promote to the ABC Motsepe League and then to the Motsepe Foundation Championship, but you say you know how to use muti. You are just doing your thing in the villages. You can’t even help a team win promotion, then you come and tell me about muti? Alisebenzi iyeza (Muti doesn’t work)! So, even with us, there was that mentality that muti works, but I ended up locking myself in my hotel room. I wouldn’t partake in those things. But come match time, I’m the one who scores. Indidike ke wena (It always got to me), Lungas, when they give the credit to muti after a win, but after we lose, kuthiwa iyeza khange silisebenzise kakuhle, silibele ngamankazana, silibele butywala, silibele yintoni-ntoni (they say we didn’t use the muti properly, that all we were busy with was women, alcohol, this and that). Why when we lose it’s because of amankazana (women) and when we win they say muti works? That’s where we disagreed, which would lead me to locking myself in.
Let’s be honest, man, that was just you being you, ha, ha, ha.
