“I am 100% completely, utterly, totally gatvol of SA self serving supercilious bullshit” - Bart Henderson, SA Inst. Corp. Fraud Mngmt

Hey, Zuma, you can’t buy your way out of this one, old chap

“I don’t have to listen to the horseshit being bandied about anymore, the never ending drivel that constitutes the never ending discourse on the subject of crime in this country. I am absolutely gatvol at the manner in which patently and blatantly vrot officials continue to enjoy the luxury of lying openly in my face and not even my face, sommer to the whole world with absolutely no shame!”

Llewellyn Kriel | Thought Leader | 24 October 2009

“I am 100% completely, utterly, totally gatvol.

“I do not under any circumstances wish to engage on the subject of fraud, bribery and corruption in this country.

“I have spent 20 years in this business and travelled the world. There is not a single man, woman or child, in this country, that has PRODUCED more work than me in the field of either research or study or handled as many pro bono cases!

“I don’t have to listen to the horseshit being bandied about anymore, the never ending drivel that constitutes the never ending discourse on the subject of crime in this country.

“I am absolutely gatvol at the manner in which patently and blatantly vrot officials continue to enjoy the luxury of lying openly in my face and not even my face, sommer to the whole world with absolutely no shame!

“I am sick and tired of the waste, the greed, the arrogance and the self serving supercilious bullshit that is spewed on a daily basis.

“I am tired of the betrayal of our constitution, I am tired of the plunder of state resources, I am sick and tired of listening to people bitch about fraud and corruption and the state of government and society and this and that while they go home and sit at the tables of the very people who commit the acts against us!

“I am sick of watching the country disintegrate into a cesspool while people whinge about how THEY should be doing something about it and yet the masses do absolutely nothing.

Destroying seeds of our future: SA's Welfare State of Moral Degeneration & Teenage Pregnancy & Educ. Mediocrity Tsunami

Destroying seeds of our future

We tolerate an education system that robs our children of opportunities, writes Mamphela Ramphele

Mar 5, 2011 11:42 PM
Mamphela Ramphele, Sunday Times

Successful societies focus on ensuring that future generations perform better than past and present ones. The crisis of underperformance of our education and training system lies at the heart of the growth of inequality, continuing poverty and dependence on welfare transfers.

We have descended into an unsustainable situation, with 15 million welfare grant recipients supported by six million taxpayers. The majority of these welfare transfers are child grants extended to those under the age of 18. Child grants amount to R35.6-billion - 16% of the social protection budget allocation, in 2011, of R146.9-billion.

Some analysts are warning that our society is being hit by a teenage pregnancy tsunami. The Times reported recently that, in Gauteng alone, 5000 schoolgirls are preparing to give birth in 2011. For every age cohort of 1.5 million starting school each year, just over 500000 end up sitting for final year examinations. Less than 70% of these candidates get a high school diploma - of which only 20% are good enough to give the pupil access to higher education.

Capetonian Ratepayers Adopt their New R4.4Bn White Elephant

Capetonians to foot stadium bill

2010-10-06 18:17
News 24

Cape Town - Ratepayers will end up paying for Cape Town stadium's operating costs after Sail Stadefrance walked out on a 30-year lease to manage the property.

"We do not have final numbers on what this will cost the ratepayer. In the end it will be up to the citizens of Cape Town on whether they come to the stadium to support the teams and events," the city's acting mayor Ian Neilson told reporters on Wednesday.

The city will take over management of the R4.4bn stadium.

Sail Stadefrance said it had projected "substantial losses" if it took up the project.

Sail Stadefrance Operating Company (SSOC) chief executive Morne du Plessis said "unresolved matters" affecting the viability of the lease, due to start on November 1, and "severe operating constraints" had caused the company to withdraw from the lease.

"The operating cost was surprising," he said.

"The maintenance costs were way above expectations.

World Cup of Bribery: Zug Swiss Prosecutor: ‘Senior Fifa Officials Involved in Largest Bribery Scandal in Olympic History’

Prosecutor's office links FIFA officials to bribery scandal

Senior FIFA Officials were centrally involved in the biggest and most spectacular bribery scandal in Olympic history, Swiss prosecutor's office confirms.

24 June 2010
By Jens Weinreich, Play the Game

Senior FIFA Officials were centrally involved in the biggest and most spectacular bribery scandal in Olympic history, Swiss prosecutor's office confirms.

In 2008 it was revealed that the ISL/ISMM-group - former marketing partner of FIFA, IOC and many other Olympic world federations (Athletics, Basketball, Swimming, Tennis) - had paid at least 138 million Swiss francs to senior officials to secure broadcasting contracts worth several billion US-Dollars.

For the first time ever, Swiss prosecution authorities from the city of Zug, where the ISL-group was based until its collapse in 2001, have confirmed that FIFA officials have taken bribes.

The prosecution office said in a statement today: "Foreign persons of FIFA-institutions have received provisions from the ISL/ISMM-group." Surprisingly, the word "provisions" is used rather than the more correct term for these dubious transactions: bribes.

‘Sepp Blatter's Great [Mafia] FIFA Ripoff Circus’ II

» ‘Sepp Blatter's Great FIFA Ripoff Circus’ - Noseweek
» ‘Book Questions World Cup Business Arrangements’ - New York Times

Sepp Blatter's Great FIFA ripoff Circus

Issue # 127 May, 2010

“Ohmigod – they’re here, in the lobby, with their nasty questions,” panicked FIFA’s general secretary. Confident Sepp Blatter took charge. “Point them to the boardroom, spread them around that huge table so they can’t gang up on us. Take your tie off, look relaxed – and rumple your hair, man.”

And so Herr Blatter and the equally immaculate Jérôme Valcke ripped off their ties, glued warm smiles on their faces and bamboozled 20 foreign reporters into believing that the tickets disaster overwhelming the World Cup in South Africa was the responsibility of somebody, anybody – but not them.

That’s how it looked from the outside. The Almighty Blatter banned me from his press conferences seven years ago, so I have to work from the posed photos of the tieless tousled duo, FIFA’s delusional press release, the uncritical reporting of the 20 handpicked notebooks – and truths in the wider world. I had feared “the elephants” would be ignored. They were.

‘FIFA's Great SA Rip R37 Billion Rip Off’; & R24 ($3.2) Billion Profit...

World Cup costs SA R37 Billion More

2010-06-13 22:05
Julian Rademeyer, Beeld (translated)

South Africa's bidding document, which it won, is under lock and key -- probably because the presentation details the frightening errors of the costs from curious eyes.

According to The South Africa 2010 Bid Book which won the bid for South Africa to host the World Cup, which was completed in 2003 and submitted to Fifa - it would have cost South Africa only about R3 billion to host the World Cup.

According to the latest estimates, the true cost has now risen to almost R40 billion - this after Mr. Pravin Gordhan, finance minister, stated in February that the Goverment had spent R33,1 billion on hosting the 2010 World Cup.

In contrast to the astronomical amount that the WB will cost South Africa, Fifa has made a larger profit from this World Cup, than any before it.

FIFA has already reaped in R 25 Billion, simply from the sale of TV and media rights.

FIFA, which is registered in Switzerland as a non-profit organisation, made a profit of $ 196 million (about R1.5 Billion) in 2009, and has assets of more than R 7 Billion.

Herd Mentality of SA's WC 2010 Mob & ANC's ‘F**k Taxpayers’ WC Tickets

Denial is a defense mechanism postulated by Sigmund Freud, in which a person is faced with a fact that is too uncomfortable to accept and rejects it instead, insisting that it is not true despite what may be overwhelming evidence. The subject may use:

• simple denial - deny the reality of the unpleasant fact altogether
  
  
• minimisation - admit the fact but deny its seriousness (a combination of denial and rationalisation), or
  
  
• projection - admit both the fact and seriousness but deny responsibility.

The concept of denial is particularly important to the study of addiction. The theory of denial was first researched seriously by Anna Freud. She classified denial as a mechanism of the immature mind, because it conflicts with the ability to learn from and cope with reality.

The concept of denial is important in twelve-step programs, where the abandonment or reversal of denial forms the basis of the first, fourth, fifth, eighth and tenth steps. The ability to deny or minimize is an essential part of what enables an addict to continue his or her behavior in the face of evidence that, to an outsider, appears overwhelming. This is cited as one of the reasons that compulsion is seldom effective in treating addiction — the habit of denial remains.

Why & How Rainbow & WC 2010 PR Propaganda Addiction, will be Toxic...

Overview: Psychological Infant Insecurity of Nelson Mandela: » » Secret Affairs of Nelson Mandela Surface || Football Fever: Terror & Famine Go Unreported: : » » ‘July 12 all the whites will be killed’ threat || The Dark Side of Optimism: Why Looking on the Bright Side keeps us from Thinking Critically

Psychological Infant Insecurity of Nelson Mandela

by Andrea Muhrrteyn
Why We Are White Refugees

The Principle of Monarchy

The Mandela myth was mainly the creation of the South African Communist Party. As the most important organizer of ANC politics within the country and internationally for thirty years, especially through the media, the SACP in the late 1950s and early 1960s set about the creation of a very specific cult of personality.

The 'M Plan' of 1953, in which 'M' stood for Mandela, did more to surround the leader's name with a mystique than reorganize the ANC on a cell-system, as it was supposed to do. Ten years later, alter the arrest of members of the High Command of Umkhonto we Sizwe at Lilliesleaf Farm in Rivonia, the emphasis was not principally on a collective call: 'Free the Rivonia nine.' The fate of an entire generation of political victims was absorbed into the fate of a single individual: 'Free Mandela.' Such personification of thousands of individual acts of imprisonment by the state might have been good media politics, but it was the negation of democratic accountability. It represented the introduction of the monarchical principle as a staple into modern South African political life. More urgently, it was a trivializing of politics which took the issue away from matters of substance and concentrated attention on the persona of one man.
-- A Death in South Africa: The Killing of Sipho Phungulwa, by Paul Trewhela

Tshabalala Gatvol's Rainbow Skellums Survival Guide to South Africa WC 2010

Posted on 05.28.10
Film Reviews by Spling

If candid camera were taken as seriously as Pop Art… Leon Schuster would be its Andy Warhol. Besides taking the piss and literally taking a piss on his artwork, he’s dominated South African comedy film ever since Jamie Uys dropped a Coke bottle on N!xau’s head.

The side-splitting American comedy pursuit could only go so far with lawsuits flying around, yet the world of candid camera has developed its own raw sense of local flavour and hilarity under the wing of the accomplished Schuster. Now just like Warhol, Schuster isn’t fully appreciated by everyone… but it’ll be difficult for you to walk five steps in South Africa without meeting someone who remembers a funny moment with Schucks.

Andy Warhol was daring. Well, so is Leon Schuster. He’s resorted to wearing heavily padded prosthetic disguises in his latest outing, Schucks Tshabalala’s Survival Guide to South Africa 2010, but who can blame him if he wore a bullet-proof vest too! He’s taken at least a hundred snot-klaps in his day and that’s just off-camera. On-camera, Schuster has the ability of a full-time matchstick man, roping the victim in with his utterly bizarre set of South African characters and accents in a situation even more ridiculous. It’s a surreal scenario, like watching a car crash in slow motion as Schuster builds the mark up to such extreme emotion to have them hit him in the face or bolt like the last sheep in a slaughterhouse.

Schuster has become a household name, but more than that… he’s a legend – giving a country with 11 official languages something to laugh about is anything but easy. You can hurl sticks and stones at the brand of low-brow comedy in movies like There’s A Zulu On My Stoep, Mr. Bones and Mama Jack, but the numbers speak for themselves. Schucks Tshabalala’s Survival Guide to South Africa 2010 is a return to the candid camera stuff. The grand candid master must have realised how hungry people were for reality comedy in post-recession, pre-World Cup fervor. This must have also been spurred on by a reasonable attempt from a new candid franchise called Rainbow Skellums and it’s been a while since that 50/50 mix of story and candid camera in Oh Schucks, I’m Gatvol!

How FIFA €orruption €mpowers G£obal €apital ...

How FIFA corruption empowers global capital

Andrew Jennings, Amabhugane & ISS
Apr 29 2010

I am disappointed with FIFA. From where I am, it seems that today’s FIFA is not the same FIFA that you joined so many years ago. Where were the ethics, morals, honesty? As a child I wanted to become part of FIFA because of FIFA’s golden values. Unfortunately, today it seems that that hope is fading fast.[1]

Is this a cry of pain from a lone idealist, wearied by FIFA’s institutionalised
corruption?

Not at all. It’s a contrived letter to a venal senior FIFA official from his venal son, asking Daddy to demolish a roadblock on the route to FIFA’s golden treasury in Zurich.

Father and son – and another son – were engaging in an industrial-scale shakedown of a FIFA tournament. They had taken control of most of the lucrative contracts, but bureaucrats in FIFA were obstructing one worth $2 million – and the son stood to forfeit his commission. So this quaint letter from the son to the father (they live under the same roof so it may have been handed across the table at breakfast) was designed to increase the pressure to loosen FIFA’s purse-strings.

The father, one of FIFA’s eight vice-presidents, has gorged himself and his family for the last quarter of a century at the expense of football. We’ll never know how much has been diverted to them because of the absence of transparency at Sepp Blatter’s FIFA – but we may note that the father has risen from being a poorly paid teacher to become a multi-millionaire, almost all derived from his involvement with FIFA.

$occer €ity Tender $ecrets & B£ank €heques...

Soccer City

What it says about the murky world of government tenders

Rob Rose, Amabhugane & ISS
Apr 29 2010

FAST FACTS ON SOCCER CITY

• The stadium cost approximately R3,4 billion to build and upgrade
  
  
• It occupies 25 hectares on the east of Soweto.
  
  
• It has a seating capacity of 94 000.
  
  
• The playing area is 11 232 m2.
  
  
• 80 000 m2 of concrete, 9 000 tons of reinforced steel, 7 100 tones of structural roof steel and 11 million bricks were used to construct it.
  
  
• It has 228 (mainly corporate) suites, split evenly between two levels.

Introduction

Designed as an African calabash and dubbed ‘the melting pot’, Soccer City is the showpiece stadium for the 2010 FIFA World Cup and is set to host the opening match, six further matches and the final match. With seating for 94 000 spectators and as the biggest stadium on the continent, it is rightly regarded as South Africa’s ‘national stadium’. It hasn’t come cheap, however.

At last count, Soccer City cost R3,4 billion to build and upgrade – funded by taxpayers through the National Treasury. While this was more than the R3,1 billion spent on Durban’s new Moses Mabhida Stadium,[1] it remains less than the R4,5 billion spent on Cape Town’s Green Point Stadium (see chapter in this publication, How Cape Town Got Its White Elephant).[2] But having spent so many tax rands building Soccer City, Johannesburg residents will have understandable expectations that the stadium will be able to provide some return on their investment.

FIFA Mafia B£lood$uckers: ¥he €nron of $port... Pt 2: $ABC, $occer €ity et al

SABC's R26-m 2010 WC Rental Bill

Niren Tolsi, Mail & Guardian
Apr 30 2010 13:32

The cash-strapped SABC plans to rent studio space at the Sandton Convention Centre during the World Cup -- at an astronomical mark up -- from a businessman linked to the broadcaster's head of Project 2010, Peter Kwele.

Graham Cooke, the president of World Travel Awards and a personal friend of both Kwele and his wife, Lindiwe Mahlangu-Kwele, the chief executive of Johannesburg Tourism, is the middleman from whom the SABC will rent the space.

At a cost of R26-million for 1800m2 for the duration of the event, Cooke will make a substantial profit on the deal -- according to the convention centre, its rates during the World Cup period have remained at R20 a square metre a day for exhibition hall one and R15 a square metre a day for its second exhibition hall. But in the sub-letting deal, the SABC will effectively pay about R480 a square metre a day.

Last year the SABC spurned the opportunity to rent space at Nasrec, the site of the opening and closing games. At €380 000 (about R3,7-million), the public broadcaster decided it was too expensive. The broadcaster had decided to downscale its presence at Nasrec, presenting only 12 matches from there and the rest from the SABC sports studio at Auckland Park.

But that's not what happened. In the new year the SABC general manager of sport, Oupa Mahlangu, issued an instruction calling for "big ideas", triggering a scramble for new broadcasting space. According to internal SABC documents in the possession of the Mail & Guardian, Kwele then went ahead and facilitated the deal with Cooke.

According to the documents, Kwele arranged to barter R1-million worth of advertising in a trade exchange for the use of the convention centre. On March 17 he passed on the handling of the trade exchange to Mahlangu after confirming to the technical team working on the project that it was in the region of R1-million.

FIFA & Mbeki's $3 Bi££ion €£ephant Finger to €apetown..

Public loss, FIFA’s gain: How Cape Town got its ‘white elephant’

Sepp Blatter and Thabo Mbeki intervened to have Cape Town's Green Point Stadium built -- at R3-billion more expensive than two available alternatives.

Karen Schoonbee and Stefaans Brümmer, Amabhugane & ISS
Apr 29 2010

INTRODUCTION

It was FIFA president Sepp Blatter’s first visit to the Mother City, but he knew exactly what he wanted from her.

When Ebrahim Rasool, then premier of the Western Cape, went to see Blatter at the five-star Arabella Sheraton Hotel on 22 November 2005, the visitor complimented Cape Town’s ‘spectacular scenery’, saying the city could be the ‘face’ of 2010 and host one of two semi-final matches. He came to the point: the city’s match venue should be at Green Point and not Newlands Stadium as envisaged when South Africa won the bid to host the 2010 FIFA World Cup 18 months earlier, or Athlone Stadium, favoured by the province and the city for its developmental potential. A brand new stadium.

FIFA Mafia B£lood$uckers: ¥he €nron of $port...

Fifa Mafia Parasites: The Enron of Sport...

• 'Fifa is an organised crime setup', Cape Times
  
• The World Cup: We Don't Need It!, APDUSA
  
• The Big Five: Stadiums could become white elephants, Earth Times
  
• R4.5bn stadium to let for R1/yr, IOL
  
• Caviar, FIFA and Media Corruption, Mail & Guardian
  
• Blatter & the Serial Murderer, Transparency in Sport
  
• Politics and Corruption in FIFA, Play the Game
  
• Mugabe's nephew in Fifa deal, Cape Times
  
• How many 2010 WC fans will leave SA burned, duped, fooled, conned, scammed and screwed over by Proudly SA Lies?, White Refugees

SA's Inconvenient Truth: ArsAzania's Writing on the Wall.....

The fate of the nation

John Kane-Berman, Long Walk Since Freedom
Friday, March 12, 2010

Although many people are unwilling to read it, the writing is on the wall for South Africa.

From the thuggishness of the police to moribund public schooling, from the endemic corruption of the ruling party to the chronic incompetence of the civil service, from assaults upon the Judiciary to official cowardice in the face of violent trade unions, from hazardous public hospitals to potholes in the roads, from failed land reform to declining life expectancy, from poisonous rivers to rampant crime and killer drivers, we are in trouble.

What makes all of this worse is the contempt with which the government routinely treats the public, even as it filches more money from our pockets. Ministers - even the president - jet in to communities in violent revolt and make promises they have no more intention or ability to fulfil this time round than last.

When a president with Jacob Zuma's track record wants to start a public conversation about morality, one can only conclude that he is either a complete and brazen cynic or-worse-that he does not understand that he has done anything wrong.

ANC's Population Production of Poverty & Entitlement Culture in resource war with FIFA's Blatter!!

More than 12,000 poor black squatters took to the streets in greater Pretoria and Brits – demanding houses, electricity, clean water and flush-toilets... right now

How many would be willing to end their enthusiastic participation in the ANC's Malthusian population explosion of poverty and immorality (i.e. stop breeding & commit to non-violence)..... right now?

More protests ahead of WC - DA

IOL
March 10 2010 at 12:41PM

Some 5,000 protestors also marched from Oukasie township near Brits – north of Pretoria -- to the Madibeng municipal offices on the same day -- accusing ANC-officials of neglecting public housing projects and municipal services while wasting money on ‘wasteful football tournaments’ while ignoring the needs of the poorest of the poor languishing in filthy squatter camps. Photo: Beeld

Communities are using the Soccer World Cup as leverage to accelerate service delivery in their areas, the Democratic Alliance in Gauteng said on Wednesday.

"An expectation was created, rightly or wrongly, around the Soccer World Cup and the advantages it would hold for South Africans by the government," said the party's local government spokesman in Gauteng, Fred Nel.

"Unfortunately communities misunderstood government's message and understood that their plight and need for water, sewerage, electricity and houses would be addressed as a result of the World Cup tournament coming to South Africa."

With just 92 days to go before kick-off, Nel warned of more violent protests and urged government to explain the advantages of the World Cup to local communities to clarify any misunderstanding.

This would also calm protests in Gauteng.

FIFA's Waltz with African Banana Republic Dictators...

Mugabe's nephew in Fifa deal

By Craig McKune, Cape Times
February 22 2010 at 08:29AM

In Zimbabwe, the exclusive and lucrative contract to sell Fifa's World Cup hospitality packages has been awarded to president Robert Mugabe's nephew, businessman and former Zanu-PF MP Philip Chiyangwa, who is the subject of international sanctions.

Chiyangwa's Native Investment Group (NIG) was hand-picked late last year to sell World Cup packages for Fifa.

While ticket prices are being slashed in South Africa to fill stadiums, and Zimbabwean fans had only bought 546 tickets by the beginning of this month, Chiyangwa has claimed his Native Investment Group, which he directs, is doing a rip-roaring trade.

Fifa's hospitality packages - including premium match tickets, catering, entertainment, "dedicated hostesses" and travel packages - are managed internationally by Match Hospitality, which appoints regional agents and sub-agents such as NIG.

Organized Crime Robbery of FIFA Jhb Communication Center; SA Media blackmailed into Silence?

Update: Monday 15 February 14:45 PM

Karin Roodt, from PRAAG reports in 'Sokkersentrum in Braamfontein beslis geroof' (Soccer center in Braamfontein definitely robbed):

After PRAAG posted an article on Friday stating that the YMCA in Braamfontein had been robbed by a group of about 25 armed men, FIFA, the international football federation denied that this robbery was in any way related to the Soccer World Cup.

Even the daily newspaper Beeld dismissed PRAAG's allegations as an internet rumour that was false. PRAAG has rechecked their facts with their source, and can confirm that the robbery in Braamfontein is World Cup related, but that FIFA has not officially taken over the administration of the YMCA building from the YMCA Board.

The YMCA building in Smit street, Braamfontein, however, is earmarked as accommodation for 700 to 900 international journalists, during the Soccer World Cup. Not only would they be provided accomodation at reasonable prices, but a Communication Center was also being equipped with the necessary computers, monitors, editorial and electronic equipment to allow them to make their reports for worldwide dispatch. It is this equipment that was robbed on Friday morning.

Case Number 731/02/2010 was reported to the Hillbrow police station in Johannesburg, in which the alleged “building materials” were robbed by robbers with knives and firearms, while the security guards were detained. The “building materials” refer to the electronic equipment which was being installed for soccer journalists.

According to PRAAG's source, who would prefer to remain anonymous, for fear of losing his job, contractors were installing the equipment, when the YMCA building was robbed. Only when the building and the installation is finally completed, will the local organizing committee of the World Cup oficially hand over building to FIFA.

The fact that the YMCA building, destined for use by soccer journalists, is not yet officially under FIFA's control; is now being used to deny that any soccer related robbery occurred. Should Sepp Blatter be robbed on the street outside his hotel, one can certainly argue that he was robbed in his personal capacity; and that FIFA was not officially involved in the incident. Consequently the robbery is being seen as “just another robbery” which occurs on a daily basis in Johannesburg; and is being implied to have no “official connection” to FIFA or the World Cup. The fact that a center for soccer journalists was robbed of its communication technology, before its completion and the arrival of the journalists in the country, speaks volumes about South Africas safety and security reality.

Murder Inc in Mbombela: Mpumalanga Banana Pty Ltd

What will I bet ya.. people are outrageously upset about Zuma's 20th baby sexual African Manhood escapades, and that consequence on their squeeky wheel 'Rainbow Hypocrisy reputations'.

But when it comes to corruption... they make a squeek here or there..., except for the 'racists' who are outraged, but ignored... the rest... they ain't bothered about billions of Rands in corruption, that cost them jobs.. and basically are ruining South Africa economically, politically, morally, legally and spiritually.

I wonder what the journalists at ETV are thinking, remembering how the ANC said those things about associating with criminals, not to mention assassins! Eish Sipho!

They then wrote an anonymous letter to President Jacob Zuma, asking him to "help before we become a banana province".

"Mr President may you please relieve our premier of his duties if you want to see progress in the province," the letter reads.

"He is busy destroying the legacy left by former Premier (Thabang) Makwetla. He does not have management skills to run the province. We are asking ourselves that with the irregularities that he has committed while MEC for roads and transport how was he chosen (as) premier of the province.

"... there are more than 10 forensic reports from the integrity management units implicating officials in the (roads and transport) department" yet no action has been taken."

A 25-YEAR-old contract killer has accused an influential ANC leader in Mpumalanga of offering him R100000 and a cushy government job if he poisoned government officials who were blocking access to tenders linked to the 2010 soccer World Cup.

Operation Dribble: FIFA Soccer Corruption on Steroids....

Gone are the days of sports hero's like the Flying Scotsman, who inspired all to principles and standards... these days it appears to be that the sports world grovels in the political corruption trough, to see who can be the sleaziest, slimiest, most corrupt Godfather mob boss: If I was religious I'd say we have sports teams and sports players Soddom and Ghomorrah would have been proud to have:

Safa is the battleground for South Africa’s famous soccer bosses, rich men who like cutting a dash and are rough: accusations of attempted or actual murder are not uncommonly flung at them and they are willing to use financial or actual muscle to solve most problems. The authorities are visibly afraid of them. When Irvin Khoza, one of the greatest of all the bosses – ‘the Iron Duke’, as he is known – was found not to have paid his taxes for some time the tax authorities merely called him in for ‘consultations’ and reached a quiet arrangement with him. There was no thought of court action.

Similarly, a few years ago the police arrested dozens of referees in ‘Operation Dribble’, having discovered that they had been bribed to fix most of South Africa’s Professional Soccer League (PSL) soccer matches. The police were very pleased at having caught the refs red-handed but then it dawned that they could not be sentenced without the naming in open court of the soccer bosses who had bribed them. This was obviously unthinkable so the refs were all released and continue to manage domestic games in time-honoured fashion.