South Africa has earmarked a whooping $30bn for preparation towards 2010 World Cup which would be hosted for the first time in Africa.
The billions,ie. 1000 million=1 billion, should be comming from the increased productivity of all its citizens,it is not,it does not take a rocket scientist to figure out where it is comming from.I very much doubt if I will be able to see a game,I doubt if I could afford it,on the cash,I have left over after all the differant methods of taxation,for the event,lumped on me.
People, if Cape Town is one of the soccer destinations, please, please, please do something about "KHALICHE". I hope some of this dough can be spent on that terrible site. It's not right to fluant "magazine cover" pretentiousness and treat people like that. Phony people in the states are making big money holding fund raiser parties and major events for Africa. It's a bloody apedemic....every model, actress, rap star you name it have their hand on Africa's poverty and using it to promote themselves. Think about it for a minute. Sad hungry people's pictures are flashing across our tv screens on a daily basis a constant promoter here and all over the world. Pictures of poverty have made so many more famous, not to mention rich here in the US and everywhere else. Does anyone ever sit down and really caculate how much money have been raised here and all over the world in the name of Africa? I visit art galleries all over the states attend "causes for Africa" little trinkets, art you name it...people pay thousands of dollars to buy these things made in Africa for a "good cause". How much of it does the poor really get?