2.4 Billion Rand more to construct stadiums in time for 2010. And no-one knows why? Sounds like the infamous arms deal.

Durban soccer stadium workers strike for more money and better safety - a clue?

In general the state of soccer in South Africa is a mess. Clubs refuse to release players to play for the national team. Millions of Rands go to "deal brokers" who secured sponsorship and TV deals. I'm prepared to predict that short before long our players will again strike for higher game fees.

We never saw this happening during the rugby world cup hosted here twelve years ago. We heard of players misbehaving in pubs and nightclubs. Our cricket players were caught with "dagga" whilst on a tour overseas and who can forget the Hansie-gate saga?

The rugby world cup this year will probably be the last, forever. South Africa will never win it again - at least not in my lifetime. Bafana Bafana will be lucky to even compete in 2010. If we weren't the host nation they wouldn't even get through their first game. There are bleak times ahead for South African sport in general. We will see individuals excelling in their sport, but with team sport rugby was the last "white" bastion of them all. Another two years at most and our provincial teams will have no white players (or maybe as with soccer, one maybe two). The old story of removing the white from the equation.

The Springbok will cease to exist. The SA rugby team will have witchdoctors doing what the All Blacks call the "Haka", throwing bones before each match on the field. Government already took the first steps in removing the Springbok name from the game. We will just become another African team playing in the minor leagues.

What will happen to our bright young players? Overseas teams will snap them up. Kevin Petersen is one example. Ousted by management he made a brilliant career, playing cricket for the UK national team. Foreign teams are brimming over from ex-South African players. Heck, one of the UKs' top notch police officers is South African.

Face it, the ANC government does not want us here. They'd rather return to their mud huts, living in squaller and steal from each other than give the white man a chance in bettering life for all in South Africa.

That does not mean that all Blacks are that way. We have lots of bright young men and women carrying on with the progressive good the white man has been at for the past 300 years (at least).

We have over a million university graduates across the country with little value attached to that piece of paper from our education department. Some worked hard and they are probably the only ones who really deserve the honour and are worthy. Unfortunately it's very difficult for a prospective employer to distinguish the worthy from the unworthy.

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