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Another reason that South Africa can’t host the 2010 World Cup

By 6000 | 6000 | January 19, 2010

Forget the Angolans, the sharks and the naughty people with knives. Have you seen the number of flippin’ terrifying bugs there are out there? Even in my Cape Town garden (which is actually in Europe), there’s some nasty stuff about: And I haven’t even mentioned the killer bees and the moths, (which are probably, like, killer moths). Once the [...]

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Duncan White gets it right

By 6000 | 6000 | January 11, 2010

I don’t often reproduce other people’s work in full on here, but after I wrote this, it was nice to see that I’m not the only person feeling that way. Here’s Duncan White in the UK’s Sunday Telegraph It is wrong to equate Angola with South Africa after Togo attack It was grimly predictable. No [...]

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Some perspective, please

By 6000 | 6000 | January 10, 2010

After the dreadful attack on the Togolese national football team, questions have been raised about the World Cup tournament in South Africa later this year. But why?  After all, France 1998 went ahead despite the Kosovo conflict, which was occuring on the same continent. As Danny Jordaan has pointed out, South Africa 2010 has nothing to [...]

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The Soccer Festival @ Cape Town Stadium

By 6000 | 6000 | January 6, 2010

I hate it when people call football “soccer”, but even I won’t let that put me off the first official sporting event at the stunning Cape Town Stadium: The Soccer Festival on Saturday January 23 2010. The attendance is limited to 20,000 for this match between two local sides Santos and Ajax Cape Town as part [...]

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A negative end?

By 6000 | 6000 | December 31, 2009

The plan was to end off 2009 as this blog has seen 2009: a look forward with typical realistic optimism to what 2010 has to offer for South Africa. And then the Mail & Guardian reproduced this little gem from The Guardian in the UK. It’s one of those opinion pieces which is written with a cheeky [...]

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