January 18th - Season 2

Formula-X's Darkest Hour

If you imagined that things could not get any worse for the ongoing protests that marred the F-X Series, think again.

“Amandla’s Rebellion”: once a marketable name, used as the template for the new storytelling techniques of the Series; now nothing more than a bane and a thorn in the side of everything Formula-X.

When Jim Kieck won the Crown, it was supposed to be a majestic moment as Kieck did something that no had been able to do for 196 days which was best John Kloof. Unfortunately, for all the protesters who have stubbornly refused to seize-fire, all they saw was “another white King being crowned”.

Those were the words that Mandla used in his vain attempts to quell this fire that had been started in the name of getting him back on the throne. Even his father was disgusted when he took to his platform and said that he “cannot and will not tolerate the issue of color being a subject in the debate of this sports entertainment’s franchise’s top prize.”

While it was indeed refreshing that DM Xulu was in fact speaking for the Formula-X Series for a change, it turned out that he had only made things worse when it came to answering questions and being unable to respond when a protester suggested that it was in fact the F-X Series that was being racist in trying to keep the Crown on Caucasians.

The unfortunate and mostly unspoken truth is that the F-X Series has always followed in the footsteps of Azania itself on being completely and utterly colorblind. It is a shame that the crowning of a new king is somehow seen as the Series making this beautiful province take a giant leap backwards.