Charities have condemned plans to hide thousands of South African beggars, tramps and street children while the World Cup is on.
Source: Metro.co.uk
About 300 have already been moved from Cape Town, where England face Algeria on June 18.
They have been taken to nearby Blikkiesdorp camp on Cape Flats, where 1,450 families are packed into an area designed for 450 people. Read the rest of this entry »
Source: WorldCupBlog.org
I wasn’t a huge fan, but I remember an episode of the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond where Ray falls out with wife Debra because she’s cleaning the house before they have visitors. I couldn’t find a video clip, but thanks to the excellent OpenSubtitles.org I can quote the argument verbatim. Imagine Ray sitting down and Debra aggressively tidying around him:
Ray: Ow! Why do you always do this? Every time we have people over we spend all day making the fake house.
Debra: lt’s not fake. lt’s the way the house should be all the time.
Ray: But it isn’t, so actually it’s like lying, huh, right? ls that what you’re about, lying to people?
Debra: Could you just start clearing everything off the rug, please?
What does this have to do with football you ask? Well, turns out South Africa are “making the fake house” for World Cup 2010 by removing the homeless population from World Cup venue cities and temporarily dumping them into overcrowded settlements. Read the rest of this entry »
Pubblichiamo il messaggio diffuso il 25 marzo dalla rete Western Cape Anti Eviction Campaign
Source: Carta Clandistino
I poveri del Sudafrica hanno dato mandato ai leader dei movimenti della società civile, come la Campagna anti-sgomberi, Abahlali baseMjondolo, il Movimento dei senza terra, Sikhula Sonke, il Forum anti-privatizzazione ecc., affinché si facciano portavoce delle istanze dei più poveri. Non ci hanno dato mandato di sostenere i partiti politici e i loro programmi elitari. Read the rest of this entry »
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