2010 World Cup Tab: $1.9B

lol @ Jean.

Liar. You sound like a typical South african tourist operator.

Do you want to lure people to their deaths? Shame on you.

Posted from  New Zealand

So all of you who are spouting how great things are will be attending 2010?

I am a South African born and bred (1963) and I have had to recently emigrate because of the horrific crime situation. I narowly escaped death a number of times. I was also poisoned.
My friends have all emigrated to Australia, NZ and Canada me in England.
The South African media is controlled by the big finanacial institutions and the government.
the government has launched a massive bulls**t campaign for 2010.
They have massive wealth behind them and this will result in many deaths.
STAY OUT FOR YOUR OWN GOOD
If you dont believe me go ahead and find out the hard way.

Posted from  United Kingdom

Anton,

What South African media are you referring to that is controlled by government and financial institutions?

Independent Media is owned by an Irish tycoon – Tony O’Reilly.

Naspers is effectively controlled by its directors.

Recently, government has been meeting with business to get “Private Business” involved in fighting crime, yet the minister of safety and security will not get involved in assisting “Private Business” in their fight against cash in transit heists?

Johannesburg – A man was arrested after a visiting tour guide was raped at a remote Mossel Bay beach at the weekend, Mossel Bay Tourism (MBT) said on Monday.

“The woman was accosted as she left the water after she’d had a swim; she was then forced behind some rocks where she was raped. She managed to escape and call for help from her group, who were walking nearby.”

News24.co.za

@ hahaha….why would I be lying? I love the place. Anything wrong with that?

In any case the world cup 2010 will be in South Africa … it has been decided. Noneintities and dead beats like Pokemon won’t change that.

Posted from  United States

Hey you lazy South African idiot, you better start picking up a pick and shovle and get cranking. The Europeans, Socceroos and Americans are just waiting in the wings to step in and take over hosting WC2010 for your inept country. If you guys can’t get this going it will be a cold day in hell before FIFA will give Africa another chance. As soon as we get finished in Iraq we can send you some troops to keep the tourists safe in 2010. We also have some extra cement lying around since you already have a cement shortage before you even start builting. Don’t count on Santa to bring you five stadiums, hotels, a modern rail system, freeways etc.
You are so insecure and your understanding of the English language is pathetic. I have never said that it hasn’t been decided that South Africa would get the world cup. What hasn’t been decided is how long South Afirca will hold on to it if it doesn’t get moving and show it will be ready on time. That’s a big difference you illiterate township refugee.

Posted from  United States

So what is FIFA waiting for? If things aren’t happening take it away and hand 2010 to a country that will manage to host this event!!!???

Probably Kahuru got a hold of those funds from the Nigerian Oil Ministry and greased FIFA’s pockets. ROFLMAO

Posted from  United States

South Africa is a modern day miracle. That with so much diversity we have achieved so much in the face of the worlds greatest evil apartheid. And Peacefully when the world expected civil war. Every leader in the known world was schocked at what South Africans achieved. Yes we have challenges yes we dont deny the crime rate. When peace was needed we did not create wars like our big Brothers and an example of how to coexist and listen and resolve. Not by warfair. We have shown the world what it takes to unite people. We have held many sucessful major events and some of the biggest in the world. Our Cape Argur cycle tour is the largest cycling event onthe world calender and growing every year. A spectacle to behold. Show me another single event anywhere where 30 000 compete in one race and its organsation par excellance. Where all from the professionals to the family are incorporated.
Give credit where it is due.
Our stadiums match and better than most first world standards. Whoever has been to our country will confirm we are a friendly nation and very hospitable. Our governance and institutions rank amongst the best. Did we not achieve the first heart transplant. Do you not know that Kaiser Chiefs soccer club fills stadiums whereever they play.A bigger soccer following than any club in the US and most UK clubs. Did you know that President Mandela is a world icon and still the most humble world leader we have ever had in the history of the world. Want me to continue. And guess what . We are a third world country. With or without your critisms we have built with very little International influence some of the finest structures seen anywhere. Some of them Project managed by previously disadvantaged groups. Our architecture and construction is equal and in instances superior to first world countries. And i talk from experience as a project manager. Our higher education levels surpass most institutions world wide for excellance. Our scientists are sort after.Nurses fill hospitals world wide. IT specialists are in demand. The worlds largest synthetic fuel plant is also found in SA. Is it not strange that China is partnering with us to build the worlds largest synthetis fuel plant.
Guys where were you when the sun rose over Africa and the star in the south lit up. Bet your head was in the ground. Like our ostriches
South africa will make world soccer proud . We have done it against all odds before. Please guys dont over rate this little world cup tournament.

Give us some credit and go and see for yourself.

Posted from  United States

Mike. Where are you living? SA is at war, crime is out of control, the ANC keep passing the buck, our MEC of safety and security is useless and the chief of police is probably involved in organised crime.

Every day there are stories, the latest is that a guy out of bail for murder kills someone else the day before he is convicted for the first one and gets 15 years. In the USA he probably wouldn’t be out on bail, especially after he hacked his first victim to death with a butchers knife, and would probably get life without perol?

The rest of what you are saying is ANC BS for trying to fool everyone into a sence of how great everything is going. bottom line, things are bad and getting worse. Wait until the 2010 vistors getting murdered.

By the way, yesterday the foreign press walked out of a scheduled meeting with no show from SA’s top delegates?????

Mike here is some feel good stuff

http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/Home/0,,2-7,00.html

Case in point to my former reply:

http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/Politics/0,,2-7-12_2033706,00.html

Mike I hate to differ with you that apartheid was the world’s greatest evil. That does a real injustice to the millions of victims to national socialism and communism. I would also say that slavery itself is a greater evil than apartheid.
Mandela is a great man but to put him ahead of Gandhi, Mother Teresa is a stretch. Our Martin Luther King Jr. did many great things for equality and like Gandhi he did it with peaceful resistance. None of these 3 was the leader of a country but they certainly where leaders on the world stage.
In a recent article of the world’s top colleges and universities, I didn’t see one from South Africa. However, the US and Eaurope was very well presented.
South Africa’s world cup organizing committee blowing off the press conference yesterday seems to suggest that your country has lost interest in WC2010. That was a comment made in an earlier blog from a former 2 year residence of South Africa. I just hope that yesterday was just a snafu and not a sign of how disinterest your country has become in WC2010.

Posted from  United States

Selebi link ‘used as a cover for crime’?
01/12/2006 08:58 – (SA)
Uncensored M&G hits the streets

Selebi using car ‘not sinister’

‘Double standards’ over Selebi

Agliotti: Selebi knew of probe

New Selebi ‘friend’ surfaces

Government backs Selebi

‘Selebi must go’
Johannesburg – Police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi knew four years ago that Glenn Agliotti was being probed for drug dealing, the Mail & Guardian reported on Friday after defeating an attempt to gag the newspaper.

The M&G ran details from a statement made to the Scorpions, after winning a last-minute court battle on Thursday night against the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), which commands the Scorpions, enabling it to publish the story.

M&G editor Ferial Haffajee said the “ungagged” version was wrapped around the “gagged” version of the newspaper, which had already been printed by the time the urgent interdict brought by NPA head Vusi Pikoli was dismissed by the Johannesburg High Court.

When police seized a R105m mandrax consignment in 2002, Selebi was “informed about Glenn Agliotti’s involvement”, said the statement to the Scorpions.

The M&G reported that the subsequent investigation failed spectacularly – Agliotti remained untouched, suspects caught red-handed were released and much of the haul was stolen back from the police.

Selebi used as a “cover” for crime

Selebi visited the scene, reportedly saying the bust sent a message to drug lords that they had “nowhere to hide from the law”. He could not have been more wrong.

The M&G said it had no evidence that Selebi personally interfered with the investigation, but the incident raises serious questions around his denial of knowing of criminal allegations against his friend Agliotti.

At issue is why he did not terminate the relationship with Agliotti, recently arrested in connection with the murder of businessman Brett Kebble.

The statement compounds evidence that Agliotti and those around him used their relationship with police – and Selebi in particular – as a “cover” for crime, said the newspaper.

The statement was made by Paul Stemmet, who headed Palto, a vigilante group which freelanced for the police.

Stemmet’s statement also described Sandton shopping sprees in which Agliotti allegedly lavished gifts like clothing on Selebi and his family.

Staff at one of the shops named told the M&G that Agliotti was a client and Selebi had an account there but said Selebi paid for himself.

Selebi has previously denied receiving any gifts from Agliotti, apart from a framed T-shirt signed by Arnold Schwarzenegger, which now hangs in police headquarters near Selebi’s office.

Scorpions head Leonard McCarthy submitted an affidavit to the court in support of the gagging attempt, saying that if the story was published it could irreparably harm the Scorpions’ investigation.

“The investigation focuses on the offences of drug dealing, racketeering, money laundering, corruption and murder. Some of the allegations that are being investigated include allegations of targeted corruption of senior law enforcement personnel; laundering of large amounts of local and foreign currency through at least seven destinations worldwide; smuggling of drugs from Europe, through South Africa and on to other foreign destinations; the large-scale [smuggling of] contraband and counterfeit goods into South Africa; and the assassination of individuals who do not subscribe to the code of the criminal network,” said McCarthy’s affidavit.

Draw your own conclusions from the following. Penny for your thoughts, kahuru and thabo.

SAPS hit by racism row

December 17 2006 at 03:30PM

An additional 21 cases can be added to a report of a deliberate campaign within the South African Police Service to get rid of non-black members.

This is according to a statement released at the weekend by the Civil Rights Union, AfriForum, established by the trade union Solidarity.

“Various new sources from all over the country have come forward after the publication last week of AfriForum’s comprehensive report, in which the conclusion was reached that members of the
police trade union, Popcru, are heading this strategy against non-black police service members.”

Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) spokesperson Boiki Tsedu reiterated the standpoint, made previously, that there was no

mpaign whatsoever.

He said Popcru called on Solidarity to “resist the temptation to make such statements”.

Meanwhile, Afriforum chief executive Kallie Kriel said the latest additional examples of “new racism” in the police made it necessary for AfriForum to product a sequel report.

The first report, entitled “New racism in the South African Police Service (SAPS)”, has already been submitted to the Human Rights Commission (HRC), read the statement. – Sapa

Fact One; South Africa has the most rapes (per capita) in the world

Fact Two; has the most murders with firearms (per capita) in the world

Fact Three; has the second most murders (per capita) in the world

Fact Four; has the fourth most robberies (per capita) in the world

Sod political expediency.

The major priority for FIFA should be safety of the players and fans alike, before any consideration is given to stadiums, transport infra-structure etc.

F.Y.I; I coach two South kids in my team and the reason they give,emigrated from South Africa is a safer life.

Speaks volumes.

Posted from  New Zealand

lazy south africans?
pokemoon get a clue, 70% of americans are fat!! i wonder why…lazy Toss

One child raped every 24 minutes
11/04/2007 10:51 – (SA)

Johannesburg – A child is raped every 24 minutes and every eight minutes one is molested in South Africa, trade union Solidarity said on Wednesday.

Forty percent of rapes reported were of children, said deputy general secretary Dirk Hermann ahead of a conference on Thursday to discuss crimes against children.

“According to a report that will be discussed at the conference, more than three children are murdered every day in South Africa.”

The conference would also discuss the murder of seven-year-old Sheldean Human, who was abducted from her Pretoria home in February.

Her body was found in a stream in Pretoria West in early March.

“Sheldean’s fate has become a symbol of the vulnerability to crime of all South Africans, and of children in particular,” said Hermann.

Other matters to be discussed at the conference were the closing of the SAPS Child Protection Unit, Gauteng Social Development departments, the decision to halt social subsidies for needy whites and the failure of the legal system to protect children.

I called a South African a lazy idiot. In no way does that apply to a whole country. Every country has their own lazy jerks. You really need to get an understanding of the English language.

I bet “South African” you are a hider nick of Kahuru. He has a long history of interpreting everything the way he wants and not understanding what was written in plain English that even a 7 year old could understand.

Posted from  United States

Fan shot while watching cricket
18/04/2007 11:32 – (SA)

Durban – The Proteas’ emphatic cricket win over England ended in tragedy for a Durban man who was shot by a burglar in his house moments after he watched the last ball being bowled, police said on Wednesday.

Sam Wyer, 55, had been watching the match when he spotted an intruder coming down the stairs into his lounge, Wyer’s son-in-law Shannon Beaton said.

Wyer grappled with the burglar while shouting to his wife, who was in a nearby room, to flee the house.

Police spokesperson Michael Read confirmed the shooting and said a case of murder had been opened.

Netcare 911 spokesperson Chris Botha said Wyer had been shot twice, including one shot to the chest. Wyer was dead by the time paramedics arrived on scene.

The intruder had apparently climbed up a security gate and squeezed through a gap of a little more than 10 centimetres between the wall and a burglar bar.

A handbag and some jewellery were taken.

Wyer’s wife was unharmed and alerted police form a neighbour’s house.

SA’s ‘13 threats to freedom’
27/04/2007 14:30 – (SA)

Johannesburg – South Africans have much to celebrate on the country’s thirteenth Freedom Day but faced the same number of real threats to hard-won liberty, Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon said.

“It is a sad irony that after 13 years, there are 13 very real threats to our hard-won liberty, and we need to have a frank and honest discussion about them.”

First on Leon’s list was the state’s continuing attempts to encroach the independence of the judiciary.

Next was an overreach of the executive power with Leon saying that a steady consolidation of authority in the Presidency had usurped decision-making from elected representatives.

Third and fourth dangers were the closing of spaces for civil society and encroachment on press and media freedom.

Next was a lack of respect for democratic outcomes with the African National Congress’ attempts to unseat the DA-led Cape Town multiparty coalition as a warning that government cared about democracy as long as it was winning.

Number six was crime, with most South Africans living in fear.

Next was foreign policy which Leon said had betrayed a legacy of negotiated democratic settlement by supporting or refusing to condemn a “rogues’ gallery of despotic regimes”.

“We are becoming associated with the polecat-club of dictators shunned by most of the world.”

Eighth was the ANC’s determination to rewrite history to privilege its role above others – changing place names, airbrushing individual histories and “generally falsifying history into one, triumphalist, majority-nationalist narrative”.

HIV/Aids followed, and at number ten was worsening poverty and joblessness with failure to implement growth-driven reforms “lighting a powder-keg of resentment amongst the poor”.

“Far too many of our people stand resentfully outside the winners’ enclosure, peering at a small, well-connected elite whose privilege drives home the majority’s suffering.”

Education and skills training was the eleventh listed danger, followed by failure to deliver on promises.

The thirteenth threat subsumed the others, Leon said.

“It is the governing party’s obsession with transformation, meaning political control by the ANC of all levers of power in society as well as the relentless pursuit of demographic representivity at all costs.”

This was “inimical” to the values of individual freedom and accountability, Leon said.

Pregnant woman raped
28/04/2007 23:33 – (SA)

Kimberley – Two men and a 16-year-old boy have been arrested in connection with the rape of an 18-year-old pregnant woman, Northern Cape police said on Saturday.

The three were arrested at Galeshewe near Kimberley on Friday, said spokesperson Tony Modise.

It is believed that the men – aged 18 and 23 – the boy and four others stopped the woman and her boyfriend in a street in Galeshewe while they were walking home at about 23:00 last Sunday.

Three men allegedly assaulted the woman’s boyfriend, while the others held the woman down.

“They took turns raping her and were later joined by the other three,” said Modise.

“The then took the boyfriend’s cellphone and left.”

The three were arrested after police investigations and were expected to appear in court soon, said Modise.

Police were still searching for the other four men, he said.