2010 will be the best World Cup ever, says Jordaan

this is very heart-warming. If we'd pooled the resources, we could have had 10 of the 10 best stadiums on planet earth. Or one big stadium made entirely out of solid gold. Or a little stadium made of diamonds only. It's shameful to spend like this, when people still live in shacks and have no running water. A family that spends such alot on pudding when there's not enough main course. Yay! Woza 2010!

I can't wait, WOZA 2010 :) Minus the french team and thierry henry's cheating hand of destiny of course.

Can't wait for the draw...

Woza 2010! There is a sense of hope. We have and will continue proving the prophets of doom wrong. Crime this, crime that...sies! Ask me which country you can leave your car in the street and still find it there the next morning, and I will point everywhere. This is despite that fact that we have hosted major events since readmition, but now that its soccer (WC) everyone is douting. Viva Jordaan!

@Nkanyiso Mathamba.. doom prophets are not all the same. I put myself in the category that simply wonders about the validity of spending so much money and resources on something as non-essential as a short lived sporting event. Be it the olympics, footie or otherwise. Secondly it's insulting to know that "we're fixing this and that for the world cup". Stuff should be fixed full stop. Don't buy functionless jewelry when you are wearing a sack-cloth, and don't suddenly clean up your filthy house just because you're expecting visitors. But besides that, 2010's gonna rock. [insert vuvu-blast here]

Reckon Jordaan should sell cars or houses especially in a tight market...he'll be the only one to achieve targets...as he talks such shite from his puby behind....ne my broer...afer his golden handshake he will shack up with santanabanana and pielhaira and they'll live happily ever after....

Balls. Total soccer balls for sure.

It is nauseating to think of such a ruinously expensive circus just so a whole lot of young chaps can kick a ball around on n overpriced field for an hour and a half.

Confound it. If they want to enjoy their Saturday afternoon at games, that's their concern. And it's very good, very healthy, plus they used to tell some rot about games being good for our character.

But what fully alert, fully alive and functioning person would ever want to waste most of a day watching other people at their games?

Anyway, I am sure this will be a most ILLUMINATING experience for the suckers who waste their savings flying to SA to get pissed on bargain beer for a month. Lol.

I wish someone would scrap the word 'soccer'. It's the cheesiest most disgusting american term. What the hell happened to 'football'?

Ask me which country you can leave your car in the street and still find it there the next morning, and I will point everywhere.
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You are hopelessly wrong here!

Jordaan,

Were you smoking Durban Poison or Jamaican Rubbish before you made all these statements?
Smoke the good ZOL!!!

Not another blabbering imbecile

Stuff the negative detractors, WOZA 2010. Being a club footy player and working on the Bid I am a proud South African, can't wait :)

when the Apartheid governent built the beautiful Rugby Stadiums in the past, Africans were living in tiny houses with no amenities. townships like Soweto had two swimming pools for the rest of its inhabitants. why then did the Apartheid government not build decent houses,tarred roads,equip township schools with resources.Oh by the way Verwoerd said Africans did not deserve to have the things that White people have except for using cheap labour to maintain an expensive lifestyle. Now that a government which received overwhelming mandate from its masses is building stadiums that will bring dignity to the sports supported by the majority of the people in this country then it becomes wasteful expenditure. The stadiums will be there for years to come and rugby stadiums will be dilapidated and therefore we'll be using the very Stadiums built for the World Cup. Wake up and smell the coffee and not become jealous because you thought only a white government can bring infrastructural development to the country.Gauteng will be the first underground train in South Africa under a black governement. Hard to swallow heh!

Dear Mr Pedido Ranoto,
The mid eighties-ranked Bafana boys will be likely eliminated in the first round –even carefully selection of the weakest opponent will not prevent this for sure. (It will only make their defeat even more ignoble!)

Personally, I am not a rugby fan –and I like a good soccer game. So therefore my ridiculing of the whole 2010 misspending of funds is not born out of jealousy –but I understand from your writing that it is perhaps also motivated by the black government “feeling better about themselves.”
“This what we blacks achieved" etc.

‘Expensive method of therapy!
Bit like a frustrated housewife who blows the household budget on shoes and handbags the family cannot afford.

All the billions could have been spent on health care, improving the training of the police and a host of other causes that REALLY would improve the lives and morale of the majority.

Hosting the world cup is nice and all, but our own team coming last together with the enormous cost leading up to it, and the maintenance cost after it –you have to wonder: could the money not have been used more wisely?

But time will tell how we really feel after those short few weeks of hosting the world cup.
If it will transpire that it was all worthwhile –I for one will eat my words on these pages –don’t forget to take me up on this promise……

By the way, personal advice to you: have something done professionally about that inferiority complex -it is downright sad to see a soul so tormented.