Media: Brazil’s World Cup Development Debacle

17 01 2010

Written by Michael Fox  – Upsidedownworld.org
Thursday, 14 January 2010 12:30

The 2010 World Cup will kick off in South Africa this June, but Maureen Msisi, of the Landless People’s Movement wants to know “who this development [is] really going to benefit? Not … the people that most need it,” she says. Activists across the Atlantic in Brazil are saying the same thing, throwing into question a development model that has accompanied massive international events such as the World Cup and the Olympics for nearly two decades. Read the rest of this entry »





Media: City homeless say World Cup glamour is forcing them out

10 12 2009

‘we are like insects to them, or flies’

December 04, 2009 Edition 1
COURTNEY BROOKS – Cape Times

Homeless residents complained yesterday that they were being forced from the streets of Cape Town to make way for a host of star-studded, glamorous events surrounding next year’s World Cup. Read the rest of this entry »





DemocracyNow! Video and radio interviews

1 10 2009

South Africa’s Poor Targeted by Evictions, Attacks in Advance of 2010 World Cup

Thousands of South Africans are being displaced in preparation for the 2010 World Cup. While Durban completes the finishing touches on its new stadium, thousands of the city’s poor who live in sprawling informal settlements are threatened with eviction. On Saturday, an armed gang of some forty men attacked an informal settlement on Durban’s Kennedy Road, killing at least two people and destroying thirty shacks. We speak to two South African activists who are fighting back.

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Unrest in South African shanty towns – ready to host the World Cup?

24 07 2009
23/07/2009 / SOUTH AFRICA – The Observer

Protests over living conditions in South African shanty towns turned violent on Wednesday when discontented slum dwellers around the country clashed with police forces. Similar outbursts last year resulted in over 70 deaths when rioters also targeted foreigners from neighbouring countries; a cause for concern for the hundreds of thousands of World Cup fans planning to travel to the country in a year’s time.
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Photo: blogger Sydelle Willow Smith. Read the rest of this entry »








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