Sleaze and anger as Africa heads for first World Cup

[Frankie]

The ANC getting international coverage of their sleaze and corruption.

Glad to see more on the ground are realising that the ANC are only in it to line their own pockets.

My main wish was for permanent improvement in safety and security for all, but as pointed out in this report, it will only be put in place to protect the foreign visitors at the time of thWC.

Sleaze and anger as Africa heads for first World Cup

In fewer than 500 days, football's greatest prize comes to the continent at a cost of £800m. Little of that investment will benefit workers on breadline wages or communities being evicted from their homes. Now allegations of corruption and even murder loom over next year's contest


The decline in political standards has happened all over South Africa and, in the past year, ANC branch meetings in many parts of the country have been the scenes of killings or violent disruption. ANC national secretary-general Gwede Mantashe told cadres last year: "You are victims of comrades who want to split the organisation on the basis of wanting to access resources and dispense patronage - comrades who say, 'If you vote for me, I'll give you this tender or appoint you to this department'."

Unsurprisingly, commentators are beginning to suggest that the World Cup is merely a cash cow for an increasingly corrupt elite.


He said that the deployment of 30,000 special police and the government's proposed use of spy technology to limit the crime in June 2010 are evidence that the competition is not intended to benefit South Africans. "The tournament is going to turn our country into a big fun park, with visitors enjoying a level of comfort and safety and security that ordinary people can only dream of. When the tournament is over, we will be sitting with major world-class stadiums in a country that can't feed or educate its people. The truth is we don't need the World Cup. Politicians and their connections need it."

 

[capetownguy]

noise noise noise.

Nelspruit people will still vote ANC.