British tabloids are warning their readers traveling to South Africa for the World Cup Games that increased racial tensions there may result in a “machete race war” in the country.
The racial problems were sparked by ANCYL leader Julius Malema‘s repeated singing of “Kill the Boer” and brought to a head by the savage murder of AWB leader Eugene Terreblanche, who was hacked to death in his Ventersdorp home just 40 miles from England’s World Cup Camp.
“ENGLAND fans could be caught up in a machete race war at the World Cup in South Africa,” read UK tabloid The Daily Star last week after Terreblanche’s murder.
Several other UK periodicals printed similar headlines.
Danny Jordaan, CEO of the Fifa organizing committee, was quick to dismiss the warnings, saying the Terreblanche murder was not politically motivated.
The Democratic Alliance blasted the article Tuesday as “an unashamed attempt to turn British tourists off the idea of visiting South Africa.”
Capetown mayor Dan Plato, who is a DA member, has already issued a ban on the public display of the old RSA flag during the Games due to its associations with Apartheid.
“It was clearly a criminal act and crime happens in any country,” Jordaan said. “I do not think that the South African media should condone this (the actions of the English media).”
Last February, Fifa Secretary General Jerome Valcke said South Africa is not ready to host the event. Valke admitted a month before that security measures were a major reason why more than a half-a-million tickets had not been purchased.
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The real problem is that Football or Soccer is a low class game played and enjoyed by trash and boozed-out houligans who have rioted at games for decades. It is a game for the scum of the earth.
Correct Phill, now Rugby , that is a game. As rough as rugby is, you never see riots and hooligans running around after a rugby game. Rugby is the gentleman’s game, and the game played in heaven.
Lets hope that nothing crazy happens.
As much as you don’t want scenes of violence anywhere, be it to do with sport, religion or politics, I think this blind world would only wake up if something was to happen to their own people while in South Africa. If it is only South Africans being murdered and raped, they will stay blind.
A lot of security is needed – look at the last post here:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/29733009/Whats-Really-Going-on-in-South-Africa
The soccer fans have a surprise waiting for them in SA, as they will feel the real fury when their teams beat the SA one legged soccer team, earning millions for doing absolutely nothing. The black soccer fans here cannot stand to lose and I feel sorry for all the overseas fans that will be caught up in Soweto amongst hundred of thousands of black yelling and unhappy hooligans after SA has lost.
These uncrowned beasts of the field are going to play soccer with all the white visitors coming to the WC in this turd world hellhole.