Old Sepp Blatter, Fifa President, has put the pressure on SA. Ultimatum: if political chaos, racism, and crime is not cleared up by European Summer 2009, Plan B will come into force = World Cup 2010 in USA !!
Apparently the attempts at improving the infrastructure and the stadium building progress are satisfactory. But the widening gap between rich and poor, the increasing crime, the completely inadequate electricity supply, and the oncoming presidential elections in 2009 are not convincingly contributing to the stability of South Africa.This was in our daily newspaper this morning in Germany.

Can Thabo, Jacob, Mangosuthu, Helen and/or Nelson fix this up?
ALS, it was in the sports section of the Nordwest Zeitung

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Out of the stadiums and into the townships; one love, one game, part 1 of four stories from the soccer hungry heart of the 2010 World Cup. Welcome to South Africa….

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Luff10: InterRail through Europe 2010 Björn is disappointed after the end of the game where Germany lost the bronze during the FIFA World Cup in South Africa 2010. We’re sitting at a place called The Bishop in East Dulwich, London….

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do the crime rates in south africa make you hesitant to go to the world cup?

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