Double standards: one for the rich, one for the poor - City Press
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It’s hard to imagine a more hypocritical bunch of bastards than the people who are presently in charge of #Durban. (...)
It’s late 2009, the city decides to extend the Umlazi Stadium for the World Cup. Fair enough. Not that any World Cup fixtures were being played there, but it’s cool to have a decent stadium.
So what does the city do? It decides that #Fifa president Sepp Blatter won’t like to see shacks. Sepp would prefer to look at female footballers in short skirts, he’s progressive like that.
So the city bulldozes their homes, promises them new ones and hauls them off to a transit camp at Isipingo. It basically dumps their asses there with a “Merry Christmas and thanks for the votes in May’’ message.
#football #afrique_du_sud #bidonvilles #inégalités via @nathangeffen