World Cup 2010

[Maritz]

A R4.5 Billion Staduim For A R1

Cape Town is set to sign away the R4.5 billion Green Point super-stadium - for just R1 a year. Despite fears the stadium will become a costly "white elephant" after the 2010 FIFA World Cup, the city is pushing ahead with a controversial deal with a French-South African consortium. The city hopes to receive a 30% share of the after-tax profits from the SAIL Stadefrance Operating Company.

But if the operator does not make a profit, however, the city will recover just R1 a year in rent while spending millions more on maintaining the stadium. To be viable the stadium will have to host between 20 and 40 events a year. The city's 2010 officials are hopeful that the lease will be endorsed by the city council when it meets on October 28. The deal is heavily skewed in favour of SAIL Stadefrance, represented by Springbok rugby great Morné Du Plessis - so much so that one independent legal expert said this week : "The only reason a landlord would concede so much is because they know they have a white elephant on their hands and they don't know what to do with it."

Dave Hugo, Cape Town's 2010 technical director, disagrees. "I honestly believe it is going to be an asset ... we certainly don't see it being a white elephant. To achieve that we have to sweat the asset. He believes that SAIL Stadefrance is a "world best". "The city is not in the business of running international stadiums .... if they can't make it work, no-one can. It won't be a walk in the park", Du Plessis concedes. "On any basis, it is going to be tough."

He believes a "fair deal was hammered out" in the lease despite suggestions the city was "out-manoeuvred and out-negotiated" by the consortium's lawyers. "Fifty percent of the critics say the stadium can't sustain itself; another 50% say our deal is too good." But Ralph Malan, a retired engineer and vehement opponent of the stadium, says the project has been "bedevilled from start to finish with official deception of the public. The stadium is going to haemorrhage money."

Estimates of what it will cost to maintain vary considerably. Early figures suggested it would cost as little as R1.3m a year but others range as high as R30m and even R150m a year. Du Plessis said initial costs would be low as "everything is new and under guarantee". "As they age, stadia do start costing money and we understand that, but there is a limit to the commercial return we can generate."

David Polovin, a lawyer and businessman who led a ratepayers' investigation into the merits of the stadium says that while it "brought with it a lot of infrastructural benefits for Cape Town", he is concerned that the city agreed to share a percentage of the "profits". "It is a fundamental weakness that the lease comes down to a share of the profits. What motive is there for the stadium operators to show a profit ? Profit means tax and it means they have to share with the city. So all they have to do is eliminate profit with expenses. Any shrewd businessman knows how to hide income in expenses."

But Polovin believes Cape Town was in an impossible position and had little choice but to accept the terms of the lease. "There were very few contenders for post-2010 operators. The operator dictated the lease to them." Hugo says there are no guarantees, but the operator's business plans project the stadium will run at a profit "except for the first couple of months".

"We believe the operating costs of the stadium will, at least, break even and not burden the ratepayer. There are no guarantees of course and time will tell." Du Plessis says an anchor tenant which will draw 10 to 12 large matches a year is key to the stadium's success. "We can then build an event strategy around that." SAIL Stadefrance are currently in tentative talks with Cape Town's two big soccer clubs, Ajax Cape Town and Santos. But real negotiations can only take place once the lease is signed and sealed. "All we have at the moment is the potential for an events strategy," Du Plessis says.

"We have got our work cut out for us."

Source : http://www.news24.com/Content/SouthAfrica/986/0ff6c7025fb74a789141372d4568e67d/04-10-2009-04-33/R45bn_stadium_to_let_for_R1yr

More tax payers money down the drain !

[Maritz]

2010 Terror Plot Against US Interests In South Africa : "Cops Not Ready"

The South African ruling party and its intelligence community are so focused on their [unfounded] fears of a perceived "white rightwing violence threat" -- that they have been ignoring the real threat -- mudslamic militancy. This was said by Hussein Solomon, head of the International Institute of islamic Studies in SA yesterday :

Mr Solomon, who is an expert on sand nigger militancy, warned in an article in The Mercury that the South African intelligence services are "woefully, inadequately prepared" for the potential threat of terrorism during the World Cup next year : telling the newspaper how he "had been trying to warn authorities for some time about the threat of islamic terrorist action during the World Cup."

He said international policing agency Interpol had already warned of such a threat but "the South African intelligence services did not seem to be listening. Our intelligence services are extremely politicised," Solomon was quoted as saying, adding that the intelligence services "would rather spy on investigative journalists to discover their sources than spy on potential terrorists. When I interact with our counter-intelligence people, they are more concerned about the Boeremag than al-Qaeda ... but they are acting from an ideological perspective which is fundamentally out of sync with reality."

In fact, said Solomon, head of the International Institute of islamic Studies at the University of Pretoria, islamic militants had already established cells in South Africa and even the international policing agency Interpol had been warning South Africa about this.

He was commenting in The Mercury newspaper on earlier reports that Somali terrorists linked to al-Qaeda have been planning to attack US interests inside South Africa. The Weekend Argus reported that the US government had closed its embassy in Pretoria and all other US government facilities for two days last month because intelligence agencies had intercepted a call from the township of Khayelitsha south of Cape Town to the al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab extremist group in Somalia, discussing a plot to blow up American interests.

This was apparently to be in retaliation for the US military's killing of an Al-Shabaab commander in southern Somalia. The US suspected the commander of having played a role in the fatal bombing of US embassies in Nairobi and Dar el Salaam in 1998. The sources added that the efforts by local intelligence agencies to trace the Cape Town Somalis was disrupted when police commissioner Bheki Cele went on national television to say that the country's intelligence structures were "on top of the situation". This prompted the Somalis to go further underground.

Solomon pointed to several instances where he said the local intelligence and security leadership had ignored potential terrorist threats for ideological reasons. He said the Pakistan government was convinced that two South Africans arrested in Pakistan after a gunfight between security forces and al-Qaeda elements a few years ago were linked to al-Qaeda. But these two men had simply been released on their return to South Africa. This also happened to two South Africans arrested in Uganda more recently. "Everyone outside this country seems to know who is threatening South Africa. We must not think we are protected because we are far away. Often these things have nothing to do with South Africa. They are just an opportunity to attack America."

Other sources said that Somali terrorists devised the strategy to take on the US in South Africa because it was easier than fighting the superpower in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Somalia. NIA spokeswoman Lorna Daniels refused to comment on the weekend reports. However, a source quoted in the Weekend Argus said : "What has been established is that the Cape guys are linked to al-Qaeda cells in Somalia, who are connected to the group in Afghanistan. We have established that most al-Qaeda operatives are relocating from Afghanistan to Pakistan, attracted by increased lawlessness in Pakistan.

"Our information is that there is a trail that links Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and, most interestingly, Mozambique where Somalis have formed an anti-US cell already. The interception revealed that these people plan to move en masse from Mozambique to here [SA] in 2010 to attack American interests. Their point is that SA is not a target, but if South Africans are caught in the crossfire, then that would be unfortunate. Part of the intercepted conversations are on how America was stronger elsewhere but could be vulnerable here in South Africa."

This in spite of the US boosting security at its new premises in Sandton and Pretoria. US embassy spokeswoman Sharon Hudson-Dean refused to comment on the threat, saying : "We do not comment on intelligence matters."
An NIA official said yesterday: "This is classified information. If you publish it, this will jeopardise an operation already under way."

However, the source said Cele had already said publicly that intelligence officers were on the track of the extremists. "I do not mean to be alarmist, but the US was right to take these people seriously because, we now know that they have links with shady characters who have access to old military hardware in Eastern Europe," said the source.

[Rev.Cambeul]

The classic phrase for emboldening the mud comes to mind, "Blame Whitey."

In the minds of Blacks, if something can go wrong, it has to be Whitey's fault, because in the South Africoon Black utopia, there is no starvation, no crime, no injustice and no deprivation of rights. It's just the terrorist Whites looking to take revenge for the loss of face and power over Sambo. After all is said and done, what freedom loving Jigaboo would want to disrupt that bastion of Black supremacy? None of course!!! How dare I even begin to postulate such an outrageous concept as the existence of an angry, corrupt and incompetent Black man! 

Google it

@Cailen.

[Maritz]

Germans Told To Wear Bullet-proof Vests

Germany's World Cup stars have been warned to expect to wear bullet-proof vests if they venture away from the team hotel at next year's tournament in South Africa. The head of Leverkusen-based security firm BaySecur, who look after the the German Football Federation [DFB] and their guests when the national team play away from Germany, says their stars like Michael Ballack must take extra care in South Africa.

BaySecur is one of the firms expected to be employed by the DFB while the team is involved in the tournament which runs from June 11 until July 11 when the final will be held at Johannesburg's Soccer City stadium. "The possibility for the players of moving outside of the hotel boundaries should be kept to a minimum," BaySecur's Guenter Schnelle told German magazine Sport-Bild.

"Otherwise there must be a full escort : armed security guards and bullet-proof vests for the players." The German Football Federation [DFB] are already looking to step up security around the team hotel in Pretoria for the World Cup. Because of high crime rates in the republic, the DFB are taking no risks with security, says their security boss Helmut Spahn, and are looking to recruit 20 extra security guards for the team's stay at their five-star accommodation.

Private bodyguards will protect the players both within and around the Velmore Grande hotel in Gauteng. "We will probably use more personnel than we would normally have," said Spahn, who will spend four days in South Africa next week looking at security arrangements. "We need to first of all get an idea of what security arrangements are already in place for both the team and the media.

"Then we will decide then whether to improve the security measures or whether they are sufficient." According to Spahn, there is little chance the DFB will rely only on local security guards in South Africa and Germany's federal police force is already in discussions with the DFB on the issue.

[Source : Sunday Times]

[Albert]

It's a pity the Whites in SA have no real fire in the belly or strategy. Then again.
I guess with 600,000 South African niggers a year dying of Aids- Nature is doing the retaliation for us.

Theres  that many guns though- I'm surprised no wronged Whites don't just go out hunting niggers for sport. Afterall with a good sniper rifle and a nigger corpse found in the dust next morning -it would be just attributed to "gang violence"- what could be easier?

I can't help think of all those dumb tourists going to the world cup though - sheep to the slaughter? Half will come home racist after being mugged. Half will come home with HIV. Don't know how many will be shot? sounds like great fun.

[Maritz]

The fire is there ... be it a small one ... the fire still burns ... just waiting for some gasoline to be added. Although aids is a blessing from Nature, the White Man is going to need more drastic steps to win the battle here. Its the age-old problem the White Man suffers from worldwide - unorganized, not united and leaderless and still living in la-la land ... when last did we have a great White leader in the world ?

Of the aproximately 3.5 million Whites we stand against 50 million muds, 8 million of which is from zimudwe - what a task - no other "white" country in the world face these odds. Of the 3.5 million, a lot are British, passport ready ... ready to flee when the crap hits the fan - dual citizens like the israeli`s. These useful idiots together with their jewish masters were the first to tear down Apartheid ... and will be the first to run when the crap hits the fan ... leaving the rest over to their own fate in a hostile country. I hope they know when to take a plane ... otherwise their fate will be sealed with the rest that are still asleep. South Africa is a time bomb waiting to explode ... I`ve heard rumours that the niggers are waiting till after the world cup ... I think it could be any time.

But I see positivity ... the few that are awake will have to make their stand. Because we are so vastly outnumbered ... we WILL make the enemy come to us ... thats all I can say. The White Race will have to unite worldwide against the crimes being committed against Whites here. I have some gruesome pictures of farm murder and house robbery scenes that will shock the living day lights out of any right thinking person - I`ll wont post them here because they are horrific, but will post them in the gallery under "my pics - White Genocide". But be warned, they are horrific - if you dont have the stomach, and I dont blame you, dont even view them. I would urge Creators to send them around to get the message out or post them wherever you want. I`ll try get around to it tomorrow.