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May 8th 2009 @ 2:28am
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Ben J said | May 8th 2009 @ 3:54pm | Report comment
Yes, please send money, I need a wheelbarrow full to buy tickets for Super 14 games, Tri Nations, British & Irish Lions, IPL Cricket, Confederations Cup, Currie Cup & FIFA World Cup.
Hemjay said | May 9th 2009 @ 4:33pm | Report comment
While South Africa is spending all the 100’s of millions on sporting events the Aids epdimic is still spiralling out of control. Millions of South African still live in shanty towns and mud huts and poverty is rife. The residents who can afford to live in a house still have barbed wire around the top of their 6ft high fences. Tourists like me are told not to stop at traffic lights at night and basically don’t go anywhere after dark unless you really have to or are just plain mad.
South Africans with half a brain are leaving for Australia and NZ in their thousands why would you want to stay in a country where you don’t feel safe. I think one African nation has seriously got their priorities wrong. In the pursuit of sporting glory their nation is and will suffer.
The $NZ while only worth 0.39 stirling the ZAR is only worth 20 NZ cents I think SA may want to get their house in order before trying to be the Super Power of World Sport Hosting,
ballboy said | May 9th 2009 @ 11:51pm | Report comment
There is a very old saying Hemjay – don’t mix sport with politics. However, having an international event such as the world cup will do more for the plight of the millions of sufferers of aids and the oppressed than we could all hope for by shifting the event to a safe haven and surviving on the notion of out of sight, out of mind. Let the eyes of the rugby world fall down on South Africa and lean on them to clean up thier own back yard.
Mac said | May 10th 2009 @ 10:58am | Report comment
Ballboy,
That is total ignornce to have that kind of attitude. You know just as well as anyone that SA can have all the sports events in the world and they will not clean up their act. The World cups and other sporting events just take the focus away for a few weeks and once its over the country has changed little. have you ever been to SA I have and its a very backward country where many things are overlooked.
And sadly the SARU mixess sport and politics together everydasy hence the quota system. Only a fool thinks that world sport is exempt from everyday life
Mac said | May 10th 2009 @ 11:10am | Report comment
I am South African yet I will admit I left SA with my family when I was only 7yrs old I am now 26 and travel back to SA every few years to see my papa and if you ask me the country has gone backwards. My homeland hosted the 95 world cup and all that did was mask the problems the nation is facing for a few months. When all the tourists leave and the television crews go SA is still suffering from all the problems that have been pointed out.
Politics is deeply rooted in South African Sport and this is largely shown in the race quota system every team has in the South African super teams. I too believe as does most of my family who have left South Africa because of the crime and general backwards direction it seems to be going should start to focus more on the people not so much the sport.
Hemjay said | May 10th 2009 @ 11:15am | Report comment
Hey Ballboy your back haven’t seen you around for a while.
I’m not so sure mate they have ahell of a lot of issues up there and I don’t think hosting the events will prompt them to clean up their act.
I hope your lads upset the Chiefs this weekend bloody buggers beat my boys on saturday I do have a conspiracy theory though lol, that bloody Lawernce is from Tauranga one of the Chiefs partner union how dodgy lol. No really the Canes were outplayed in a tight game I think the Canes need to learn how to catch the ball and not throw passes under pressure when theres nothing on