World Cup 2010

[Rev.Cambeul]

Residents of an upmarket Durban suburb were reported as being up in arms over plans to erect a campsite on the grounds of a local school. "I do not want to have 3,000 drunk Aussies in my face for two months," one resident was quoted as saying of the campsite at Northlands Primary School, which is being marketed to Australian football fans

Sounds fair enough to me.

[Maritz]

Old SA Flag Banned From Stadium

Cape Town - The old South African flag has been banned from Cape Town's 2010 soccer stadium, along with items such as teargas and pointy umbrellas. The flag is on a list of forbidden items displayed at entrances to the 68 000-seater showpiece, which on Monday hosted a whistlestop visit from a group of invited local and international media.

It is listed just above "banners or flags with content that can reasonably be considered to be sexist, racist, vulgar, discriminatory, inflammatory or offensive". Also banned are fireams, ammunition, knives, and any sharp or pointed metal object which could be reasonably considered a dangerous weapon. "Even an umbrella with a long extending metal point could be regarded as such," the notice says.

Cup local organising committee chief Danny Jordaan said he was unaware of the restriction on the old flag, and did not know if it was in force at other 2010 stadia in the country. Cape Town mayor Dan Plato said what had happened at upcountry sporting events where people displayed the old flag had "caused some embarrassment". We don't want that same embarrassment to take place here," he said.

"We want rather to say to people, the old South African flag is not a recognised national flag anymore and we don't want people unnecessarily to embarrass South Africa and to embarrass Cape Town. Let us rather be patriotic and act as good patriots of the country. If you're a South African, for what reason are you going to bring a flag which is not a national flag anymore ? What are your motives for it ?" [ ... because we dont feel part of this country anymore ?]

In some quarters the old flag, with its blue, white and orange stripes, is seen as a symbol of the apartheid regime, and considered highly offensive. However others point out that it predated apartheid by some 20 years. It was replaced in 1994 with the current multi-coloured flag.

Source : http://www.news24.com/Content/SouthAfrica/News/1059/24ed0f1a324c4cc6a4b4d3b2b6ce8ea1/01-03-2010-01-10/Old_SA_flag_banned_from_stadium

[Rev.Cambeul]

Take a Creator flag!

[Maritz]

Take a Creator flag!

I wont be near any staduim; I must admit I`ll be watching the German games

[Maritz]

One hell of a nigger leader you got there.  Travels all the way to England and asks for condoms.

Yes LoneCreator, this Nog is from the specie homo asshole ... a very dangerous breed indeed ... with its head permanently buried in its ass 



40,000 Prostitutes For World Cup

Officials are warning that tens of thousands of sex workers could enter South Africa during this year's World Cup, and that children are at risk of being targeted by the sex trade. World Cup organizers say up to 40,000 prostitutes were recruited for this year's event, which takes place in a country where 16 percent of the population is believed to be living with HIV.

Officials also raised the possibility that local children would be recruited into the prostitution business partly due to the fact that World Cup takes place during a four week national school holiday. The concerns were raised at a meeting of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

Davis Bayever, South Africa's deputy chair of the country's Central Drug Authority, said his government feared the large influx of sex workers and pledged an attempt to stem the tide. "It's horrific and very concerning," Bayever said. "Money talks, and if you're a sex worker then there is going to be money in South Africa in 2010". Bayever said that passport checks, screening, and profiling will take place at the borders to try and prevent illegal arrivals [ ... as if thats going to stop them ... SA`s borders have been open for mud scum the last 16 years].

He believes the women will be traveling from all over the world, especially Eastern Europe. Especially troubling was the prospect that impoverished children would be lured into sex work by the country's sordid drug and prostitution underworld. "There is no doubt that they will be targeted to become prostitutes," Bayever said. "Children from poor rural families will be given a carrot by criminals who tell them they will have a job if they come to the big city."
Around 450,000 fans are expected to travel to South Africa to attend this year's World Cup [... this remains to be seen]

Source : http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2010/03/06/2010-03-06_officials_warn_that_40000_prostitutes_could_enter_south_africa_for_2010_world_cu.html

[Maritz]

"We Will Disrupt The WC2010 Football Tournaments"

Beeld journalist Virginia Keppler reported that the Mamelodi-East protestors also openly threatened to massively disrupt the forthcoming football-tournaments. "If the government can act so efficiently to prepare for the WC2010 and spends so many millions of Rands on it, it's a disgrace that people now are still living in such dismal squatter camps, ' said resident Vusi Nkosi. "The football means nothing to us – we can't watch it anyway without electricity,' he said. "We will fight and toi-toi [stone-age dance] just like the ANC has taught us...'

At Oukasie near Brits about 5,000 residents marched to the local municipal offices. Local community leader Ms Veronica Mphahlele said the government had promised them in 2000 that they would get 'permanent housing and land of our own'. It's now ten years later and we are still squatting in the ame place. Instead the municipality just sends in the police to come and shoot us,' she said. She said there are widespread accusations by Oukasie residents that 'town councillors, the police and the metro-police are enriching themselves by selling off houses built for the poor for their self-enrichment'.

The local MEC for public housing and local government admitted that 'they have a large backlog in building public housing because of the difficulties of obtaining new municipal land.' The government did promise to build 5,000 new houses, he admitted. Local community leader Absalom Boroto issued a public call for national housing minister and multi-millionaire Tokyo Sexwale to 'hold a meeting with them so that we can submit proof of all these empty promises made to us over the years'

Source : http://www.beeld.com/Content/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/1928/6995b183a0c24cc1838405fc63a8dfbe/09-03-2010-10-44/%E2%80%98Ons_sal_2010_ontwrig%E2%80%99