What now?

stroebs

stroebs

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So we all know the world cup has been a great success for many and congrats to Spain for actually winning the cup. It has shown the world that South Africa is not totally useless at doing whatever we do...

BUT!

What happens next??? I am already feeling a massive void where there once was excitement and worry for an event that has just been held and is now already over. We all talked about "2010" and how it would be so different to many other years past, which it has, but we never hazarded a guess at 2011? or 2012? Yes we could try hold the Olympics here which would be a mission because you cannot hold the Olympics all over the nation, Cape Town - Maybe.

Anyone have any wild ideas of what we can do with our lives now? I am pretty much set for the next few months what with finishing my last year of school off but what I am really thinking about is BEYOND 2010. "Feel it, it is here" is what was said, will it be "Feel it, it was here"? Will South Africans forever look back to this year?

I myself can say that during the final ceremony I shed a tear out of sheer pride for the country and how far we've come since 1994, even if I was too young to experience it for myself.
 
stroebs said:
So we all know the world cup has been a great success for many and congrats to Spain for actually winning the cup. It has shown the world that South Africa is not totally useless at doing whatever we do...

BUT!

What happens next??? I am already feeling a massive void where there once was excitement and worry for an event that has just been held and is now already over. We all talked about "2010" and how it would be so different to many other years past, which it has, but we never hazarded a guess at 2011? or 2012? Yes we could try hold the Olympics here which would be a mission because you cannot hold the Olympics all over the nation, Cape Town - Maybe.

Anyone have any wild ideas of what we can do with our lives now? I am pretty much set for the next few months what with finishing my last year of school off but what I am really thinking about is BEYOND 2010. "Feel it, it is here" is what was said, will it be "Feel it, it was here"? Will South Africans forever look back to this year?

I myself can say that during the final ceremony I shed a tear out of sheer pride for the country and how far we've come since 1994, even if I was too young to experience it for myself.
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ESKOM, tax, rates', toll road payments increases from now on.

Hopefully no xenophobia violence.

Will SA Government continue to fight crime for SA citizens the way they fought crime for FIFA? Let's hope so.
 
copacetic said:
Well, the world is ending in 2012, so I reckon we should just have a big orgy for the next two years.
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I lol'd.

Onwards and upwards sounds about right, but how? If we're in so much debt from this event, how do we move up without demoralising every South African with death and taxes?
 
I hope to hear our president on the news within the next 24 hours debriefing the country, and making clear that any Xenophobic violence will be dealt with the same way terrorists would have been dealt with over the world cup. There is already some unrest in the cape by the sounds of it...It needs to be snubbed out NOW!
 
Now that the productive taxpaying minority are adequately distracted, the squeezing them for all they're worth will continue unabated.
 
Easy, we get back to bashing Malema now :)

Seriously though, let's hope everything just goes better and betterrer (purposefull typo) going forward. :)
 
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