It may blow up on us, too...

What may work for the Boks might not work for the eGoli.

- RICHARD CHEMALY

It's great that mayor Dada Morero is giving love to a functional element in our beloved sporting team, but there's a reason the bomb squad works for the Boks; they're part of a bigger game plan that comes with well-thought-out strategy, experience and a solid rugby system that develops players from school level.

It's not like the bomb squad alone wins matches.

Suggesting that a bomb squad is the missing key for the functioning of Johannesburg is akin to suggesting that what a craft brewery needs to overtake SA Breweries in sales is a peach-flavoured lite beer.

The idea is as good as training up a special police force with the FBI and putting them in traffic management.

The stuff that this "bomb squad" is expected to tackle is the stuff that the local government is supposed to be doing and has been funded to do since the dawn of local government.