SOUTH AFRICA RIFE WITH POVERTY BUT NO SHORTAGE OF CASH FOR STADIUMS
It seems that despite overcoming the evils of apartheid and finally getting rid of
the white supremists, South Africa still remains under the control of a corrupt government.
The townships that existed during apartheid remain, yet the government have spent millions
on creating 10 new sports arenas for the world cup.
Sport seems to be a far greater priority than the living conditions of the poor South African
people who still live in utter squalor and deprivation . London is going the same way with the coming Olympics
that are costing billions to create the sports stadiums, while millions still live in
squalid conditions. Greece has all but been bankrupted after having spent so much on the Olympics
at the utter expense of the ordinary citizens of Greece.
When the powers that be say there is NO MONEY it is an utter nonsense as when they want to
find the money for their exclusive sporting events, that the ordinary South Africans cannot
afford, they will. Just like the many billions being spent on science projects like the
International Space Station and Cerne that billions are poured into while the world's poor
starve and are denied the basics of life. Those running this world have very different priorities
from the ordinary victims of their extravagant and outrageous spending.
A notorious South African white supremacist leader was killed Saturday by his own employees, police said, in an apparent dispute over wages.
Eugene Terreblanche, the 69-year-old leader of the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (Afrikaner Resistance Movement, or AWB), was bludgeoned and stabbed to death on his farm with clubs and a machete, police said. Two of his farmworkers turned themselves in to authorities in connection with the killing.
No other details were immediately available.
Terreblanche's AWB is best known for trying to block South Africa's effort to end apartheid. The group used terrorist tactics in a bid to stall the country's first all-race vote in 1994, killing more than 20 people in a wave of bombings on the eve of the elections.
Terreblanche was convicted of the 1996 attempted murder of Paul Motshabi, a black man who worked as a security guard on Terreblanche's farm. He served about two-thirds of a five-year sentence.
He also was convicted of setting his dog on a black man in an earlier incident.
His death Saturday comes amid a time of heightened racial polarization in the country. A South African court last month banned the playing of a political song called "Kill the Boer," most recently sung by radical youth leader Julius Malema. The apartheid-era song's lyrics translate to "kill the farmer."
