In the name of everything that's holy, who would schedule the Kaizer Chiefs-Orlando Pirates derby for the same date as the Currie Cup rugby final?
The art of inexplicable clashes is best left to our cabinet ministers.
Mr Mthethwa, for example, lives in Durban but still manages to run up an accommodation bill of more than half a million rand at that city's Hilton Hotel.
As the nation's police minister in the vanguard of the fight against crime, he probably needs to go undercover from time to time in five-star establishments, particularly, it would seem, around Christmas, New Year and St Valentine's Day.
But there is surely no excuse from our sports bosses to orchestrate such a clash of our big rugby and soccer events.
We are really quite a small country in terms of extravaganzas and you would think that the marquee games should be allowed to occupy their very own days on the calendar.
As a rule of thumb, you would also think cup finals should take precedence and the rest fit in around them.
It is not, of course, the first time that major sports events have clashed, but sometimes there have actually been valid reasons.
This time it's a case of double trouble because Chiefs, the derby hosts, went ahead and booked Loftus Versfeld for the October 31 derby.
At that stage, had they bothered to ask, a lot of people would have warned them that the Blue Bulls would probably need their home ground that very same day for the Currie Cup final.
Actually, to tell the honest truth, Chiefs were apparently warned in advance, but they chose to ignore this.
So now they will take the Soweto Derby to Soweto, which, when all is said and done, has a nice sort of ring to it.
Still, that shouldn't disguise the fact that the rugby and soccer showdowns are on the same afternoon, probably at exactly the same time, if one has to guess.
Anyone with an interest in both - and this may even include a couple of players - can only attend one or the other.
Even if you try switching channels on TV, you'll end the day feeling cheated on two fronts.
Rugby, of course, could have solved the problem by playing the Currie Cup final a week earlier.
All season long, teams have played week after week. Now, suddenly, there's a two-week break between the semifinals and the final.
There is no doubt a perfectly good rugby reason for this, but it immediately escapes me.
It's probably more of a hospitality reason to allow the organisers to make sure that they give their VIPs enough time to RSVP.
Whatever the reason, some of the fever is certainly lost.