Quote from: Mega on June 03, 2010, 09:20:42 PMI don't know when will ppl understand that the world cup is not here to bow down to mother Africa, expose the continent true culture to the world and blah di blah!! The world cup is a commercial entity that is here to make money, as they do in every country the the event is hosted in. This is not South Africa or Africa's world cup, it's FIFA's. South Africa just agreed to stage it here, on FIFA's term and conditions. Agreements were signed between our country and FIFA, this is a business transaction. The concert is another commercial entity, and owes local artists nothing, they can have an all American line up if they want to.Deal with it!!!This business transaction happens to involve the state and south africa wouldnt have won the bid if there wasnt a huge support from its population. people have the right to bitch about it if this is not benefiting them.
I don't know when will ppl understand that the world cup is not here to bow down to mother Africa, expose the continent true culture to the world and blah di blah!! The world cup is a commercial entity that is here to make money, as they do in every country the the event is hosted in. This is not South Africa or Africa's world cup, it's FIFA's. South Africa just agreed to stage it here, on FIFA's term and conditions. Agreements were signed between our country and FIFA, this is a business transaction. The concert is another commercial entity, and owes local artists nothing, they can have an all American line up if they want to.Deal with it!!!
Quote from: RearrangedReality on June 04, 2010, 10:56:47 AMQuote from: Mega on June 03, 2010, 09:20:42 PMI don't know when will ppl understand that the world cup is not here to bow down to mother Africa, expose the continent true culture to the world and blah di blah!! The world cup is a commercial entity that is here to make money, as they do in every country the the event is hosted in. This is not South Africa or Africa's world cup, it's FIFA's. South Africa just agreed to stage it here, on FIFA's term and conditions. Agreements were signed between our country and FIFA, this is a business transaction. The concert is another commercial entity, and owes local artists nothing, they can have an all American line up if they want to.Deal with it!!!This business transaction happens to involve the state and south africa wouldnt have won the bid if there wasnt a huge support from its population. people have the right to bitch about it if this is not benefiting them.co-f***en-sig, just because its not a South African world cup, it doesn't mean that we should let them walk all over us!!! Its like telling a woman who is in an abusive relationship, to accept that her man will repeatedly abuse her and there is nothing she can do and there is no way out of the relationship!!!