$9 Billion Dollars in Insurance for the South African World Cup?

We have been discussing the World Cup in South Africa for the past few months here at SBPDL. In fact, we have already declared that event to be a monumental failure based upon the amount of money spent to ensure the safety of the visiting fans to that rainbow nation.

The mainstream media has done a woeful job of covering South Africa since 1994, when the last vestiges of white rule were removed with the democratic election of Nelson Mandela. Indeed, only angelic and glowing praise of Mandela is allowed – see Richard Stengel’s work for Time magazine and the books he has written on his beloved mentor for proof of this – to be published.

Now, the truth of South Africa’s precipitous decline under Black rule is becoming increasingly obvious and any mention of this in the mainstream media is not tolerated (see this article in The Guardian).

Our coverage of the real South African World Cup (available here, here and here) should be enough to wipe away any false notions of a post-racial utopia from your sleepy eyes. The decline of South Africa in a mere generation since the handover of power from the white founders of that nation to the immensely unprepared Black majority is profound.

The gleaming towers and cities that will be viewed on television were built by white South Africans long before Black people took power (much like in America’s major cities). The shanty towns that house the teeming masses of the ever-expanding Malthusian Black underclass in South Africa are the true legacy of Black architectural feats.

We have been trying to figure out why the World Cup was forced on South Africa, a nation that could have easily hosted such a mammoth undertaking during the bad-old days of Apartheid (were an International Sports Boycott not applied to that nation).

Now, the answer has become crystal-clear: they were set up to fail for a significant monetary gain:

With just four days to go before the opening match of the 2010 Fifa World Cup in South Africa, Llyod’s of London, a British insurance and reinsurance market, has valued the insurance of most widely viewed sporting event in the world at a staggering US$9 billion.

The eyes of the world are watching, and with so much at stake, Fifa, tournament broadcasters, World Cup sponsors, national teams, associated business, as well as the players and fans have looked to insurers to protect against all eventualities.

Chris Nash, Sportscover underwriter, said “Competitions, offers, prizes, sponsorship, broadcast rights - it’s impossible to know how many there are, but all companies with these financial implications need coverage.”

The latest estimate divides the insurance policies into three categories: property insurance, contingency insurance and liability insurance.

According to underwriters at Llyod’s, roughly half of the US$9 billion figure can be attributed to property insurance. Five new purpose-built world class stadia as well as major renovations to five others, combined with the cost of providing training venues have taken South Africa’s overall stadium budget to more than US$1 billion.

Contingency insurance set up to cover unforeseen circumstances, such as broadcast delays causing incorrect advertising scheduling, has been valued equally at US$3.2 billion.

“If the opening ceremony is delayed, that will affect the broadcasters, because they’ve got their advertising slots in place,” said a spokeswoman for Lloyd’s. “Similarly, if the final has to be delayed for whatever reason, people might want money back for their tickets.”

Lloyd’s estimate that a further US$290 million worth of liability insurance has also been purchased.

While the £6.2 billion worth of insurance, which fails to take into account insurance on individual players, may seem initially high. In terms of overall economic impact official forecasts suggest that, once the dust has settled, the South African economy will be boosted by US$7.2 billion.

We have discussed the crime scenario in South Africa before (comparing South Africa correctly to the dystopia portrayed in District 9) and in a post detailing the horror that could unfold were Nelson Mandela to die before the games commence, or during.

The World Cup is not providing the economic boost that so many were promised in South Africa. The Black middle class might be growing in South Africa, but so is the ever-expanding Black underclass, who view the wealth and prestige they are not receiving with derision, disdain and extreme jealousy.

Already, 19,000 murders take place a year (largely Black on Black violence that was held in check during Apartheid) and those ”have not’s” who have yet to taste the joy of democracy in the Black-run new South Africa see the continued disintegration of their standard of living while the proverbial “haves” line their pockets with international contracts from investors abroad.

Yet, the entire nation is being played. No amount of positive press from The USA Today, Bloomberg Business Week, Financial Times, The Council on Foreign Relations or any outlet can hide this fact any longer. The Daily Star in London is providing the most important coverage on the World Cup (along with this Yahoo! Sports story of the New Zeland team stopping practice due to putrid and acrid scents emanating from a Black township).

$9 Billion dollars in insurance for the World Cup!:

It's a staggering number for any occasion, even the most watched sporting event in the world.

The 2010 World Cup starts in less than a week and it will be insured for $8.98 billion, according to specialist insurance company Lloyd's of London.

The breakdown is: $4.35 billion -- contingency coverage.
$4.35 billion -- property coverage
$290 million -- liability coverage.

FIFA utilized the capital markets to take out insurance against the cancellation of the 2006 World Cup to the tune of $260 million, yet transferred the risk to insurers for the 2010 and 2014 World Cups:

The Fédération Internationale de Football Assn. is protecting its investment with $650 million in coverage to protect against postponement or relocation of the event, which runs June 11 through July 11. The bulk of the coverage, which will remain in place for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, is reinsured by Swiss Reinsurance Co. and Munich Reinsurance Co.

FIFA did not purchase insurance to cover cancellation of the World Cup. The organization chose not to cover that risk because “even if the event is delayed for any reason, it is extremely unlikely that it would be called off,” a spokesman said in an e-mail.

Insurance and security in South Africa will be in place for 64 matches played in nine cities during the month long World Cup centered in Johannesburg. Estimates of the number of visitors have ranged as high as 450,000 to watch the games.

The South African government has assured fans that enhanced security will keep them safe at World Cup venues. Concerns grew recently based on a report that an al-Qaida operative in Iraq had been detained on suspicion of planning an attack at the event.

Such threats are not uncommon, said Hans J.R. Steffen, Swiss Re's Zurich-based expert for large events.

“These are threats that are faced by all major events,” Mr. Steffen said. “This threat is not any bigger than those at other, previous events.”He said South African police and security agencies have taken all necessary precautions to keep the event safe.

“The location does not necessarily represent any unusual exposures,” said Jonathan Cole, a London-based partner with Jardine Lloyd Thompson Ltd. “Underwriters' main concerns focus around the infrastructure, terrorism and civil commotion,” he said in an e-mail.

The insurance market's confidence, though, has not been shared by everyone participating in the World Cup.

Claus Wunderlich, owner of Die Sport Assekuranz, a Reutlingen, Germany-based broker, said he has been approached by soccer players interested in kidnap and ransom insurance to cover them during the World Cup (see story). He would not divulge whether any such coverage was placed.

South Africa has stepped up its border security and is working with international agencies to gather intelligence regarding potential threats, the 2010 FIFA World Cup Organizing Committee said. Police will deploy 41,000 officers to maintain order and about $85 million will be spent on 10 water cannons, 100 BMW automobiles to patrol highways, 300 mobile cameras, unmanned surveillance aircraft, helicopters and other security equipment.

“The police force is ready,” South Africa Minister of Police Nathi Mthethwa said in a mid-May statement regarding World Cup security. “Police will be everywhere, ready for any eventuality. This is the epitome of our security plan; we will cover every corner because we do not have any no-go areas,” he said.

While no country can “stand boldly and pronounce that it is immune from terrorism, what becomes critical is, should such an act occur, how do we respond? What makes us even more alert in our security planning is that South Africa will be hosting the whole world and therefore we will take no chances,” Mr. Mthethwa said.

Mr. Steffen said South African police and security forces are especially vigilant partly because the African continent is hosting the World Cup for the first time. “Imagine how much people want these games to happen without any interruption or disruption,” he said.

Very "important' event

South Africa has hosted other large events, such as the All-Africa Games in 1999 and the Cricket World Cup in 2003. But the FIFA World Cup stands apart in its prominence, said Mr. Steffen.

“The World Cup is definitely a very big and important event for South Africa,” he said.

FIFA's coverage protects the Zurich-based organization from losses should the World Cup be postponed or forced to relocate because of terrorism, war, natural disasters or civil unrest, Mr. Steffen said.

Cancellation is the biggest exposure that FIFA and other stakeholders face with regard to the World Cup, Mr. Steffen said. While property/casualty, personal accident and other exposures are among those that generally are thought of first, “the biggest one is cancellation,” he said.

Though FIFA did not buy coverage for that exposure, many others facing losses if the event is canceled did buy cover that would respond, sources said.

Munich Re estimated in its 2009 annual report that the total demand for cancellation insurance could be around $5 billion.

Cancellation of the event would mean heavy losses for many organizations with ties to FIFA and the World Cup, Mr. Steffen said. Broadcasters, hotels, restaurants, travel agents, souvenir sellers and others would be hit with losses.
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“Swiss Re and Munich Re are the main providers” of coverage written for FIFA, Mr. Steffen said, with various international and local insurers providing following capacity.

Munich Re said in the annual report that its share of the coverage is the largest at around $350 million.

Mr. Steffen did not say exactly how much of the coverage Swiss Re will provide, but said it is a “three-digit million” amount.

German reinsurer Hannover Reinsurance Co. confirmed it will provide a portion of the coverage, but a spokeswoman said its participation is “quite marginal.”

FIFA's coverage was placed by Erwin Himmelseher Assekuranz-Vermittlung GmbH & Co., a Cologne, Germany-based broker.

FIFA returned to traditional markets for insurance after a pioneering 2003 move in which it purchased a $260 million catastrophe bond to cover the cancellation exposure of the 2006 World Cup in Germany. It was the first such bond to transfer the risk of staging a sporting event to the capital markets and was the first to cover the risk of terrorism.

FIFA said it turned to the capital markets in 2003 because prices were high in a tight marketplace after the 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States. With insurance prices declining since then, the organization decided to transfer the risk to insurers for the 2010 and 2014 events.

The USA Today ran a story in 2006 detailing the insurance aspect behind terrorist threats and published this interesting tidbit:

The Insurance Information Institute reported last year that insured losses from the 9/11 attacks approached $32.5 billion. That was 30 times more costly to the insurance industry than any prior terrorist attack and nearly 11/2 times more expensive than the $21 billion cost of Hurricane Andrew in 1992, the USA's most expensive natural disaster. The insurance industry's 9/11 losses did not stop there. OECD researchers found that claims payouts combined with downturns in the stock and bond markets, in which insurers are heavily invested, cost them about $200 billion in capital.

Going forward, the 2006 World Cup soccer championship in Germany serves as one model of how the capital markets might eventually complement private insurers in covering terrorism risks. To provide a financial guarantee for the World Cup host, Wall Street investment bank Credit Suisse sold $260 million in securities that provide a backstop against the tournament's cancellation.

Underwritten in 2003, the World Cup bonds were hailed as a breakthrough in spreading the financial risk against terrorism. The soccer bonds pay investors a handsome yield while subjecting them to the risk of losing up to 75% of their capital. But the financial markets have been slow to find investor appetite for terrorism-related securities in other venues.

We at Stuff Black People Don’t Like have been trying to persuade people around the world to understand what is about to happen at the South African World Cup. It appears the only people listening were FIFA and their corporate sponsors (based on the amount of insurance they have taken out).

Ladies and gentlemen, one game is about to change everything.

To paraphrase an adroit reader, the situation in South Africa and the undeniably high level of insurance taken out reminds us of the movie The Producers:

The plot of The Producers is that two debt-ridden and washed up Broadway producers decide to create the worst play in history. They insure this play by guaranteeing a share of profits to investors, but the fine print of the investment contracts stipulates that if the play loses money, then the investors must cover the loss on behalf of the producers. They search through scripts looking for the absolute worst play they can find, and settle on a script entitled "Springtime for Hitler”. To summarize, the two producers bank on the failure of their play, so that they can clean up on insurance money.

The South African World Cup was set up to fail from the beginning. With this information in hand, you are warned not to attend.

The South African World Cup: A Real Life "District 9" Situation

It starts in but four days. Once, this website dared point out similarities between the movie District 9 and Haiti.

We were wrong... South Africa is District 9.

One reader of this website asked why we spend so much time talking about South Africa and the World Cup. The answer is the same reason we discuss Detroit, Atlanta, Baltimore, Birmingham, Newark, Chicago and any city in the United States that represents the future... now.

Whitopia's represent a dream, a glimpse at what can't be for much longer. South Africa represents your future and it will be replicated in every corner of the so-called western world.

Consider, the United States ambassador to South Africa warning for Americans traveling to the World Cup:

The U.S. ambassador to South Africa downplayed the State Department's crime alert to Americans attending the World Cup.

Ambassador Donald Gips, wearing a U.S. national team road jersey, attended Sunday's American training session, which was watched by several hundred vuvuzela-blowing children brought by youth groups partnering with the embassy.

"There is no new concern about violence," Gips said on the side of the field. "South Africa does have a crime problem that they're addressing, and we want to make sure Americans are aware of that and stay in places that are safe."

On May 27, the State Department cautioned U.S. citizens in South Africa attending the World Cup to keep car doors and windows locked while driving and not to leave valuables in plain view or to wear expensive jewelry.

"Criminal activity, including violent crime, is prevalent throughout the country," the department said.

Gips said South Africa had to progress from its past.

"It is a country that is coming from the legacy of apartheid," he said. "In the 15 or 16 years since it's been a free democracy, they've made huge strides, but it's a very difficult legacy to overcome. So there are still problems that need to be addressed."

The shelf life for blaming Apartheid for continuous misrule by the Black government in the new South Africa is up. Indeed, the crime rate soared when Black people gained the freedom to act with the impetuous nature of the aliens in District 9, only when the Apartheid government fell to the thunderous applause of the international community.

The nation that Black people were handed in 1994 was a first world power with nuclear weapons, some of the finest cities, soundest infrastructure and a model for rule of law (no better metaphor for the hand over from white rule to Black can be found then Ponte City).

Crime, a horrible reality in post-apartheid South Africa, was kept in check by the only methodology that could possibly return order to America's major cities: the will to survive. However, that was long ago replaced with a desire to live a peaceful, preparatory extinction phase in the safety of Whitopia's, only delaying that haunting inevitability.

Like the aliens in District 9, the only reason Black people were able to reproduce with such fecundity was due to the benevolence of the host population:

At the start of the year 1900, the number of African South Africans was found to be 3,5-million according to the British colonial government census. By 1954, our African population had soared to 8,5-million — and by 1990, there were a full 35-million of us — all carefully managed, closely policed, counted, shunted around in homelands and townships — and all of us chafing and griping under the suppressive yoke of the Afrikaner Broederbond’s rigid racial segregation system.

During apartheid, our population grew apace however because we also had the benefit of the Broers’ medical knowledge and their excellent agricultural skills.

Our population growth and our average life expectancy in fact showed us Africans in South Africa to be in better than average health when compared to other Africans on the rest of the continent: in the decades prior to the official policy of apartheid, (which was started in 1948), the average life expectancy of African South Africans was only 38 years.

However, during the last decade of the apartheid era from 1948 to 1994, our average life expectancy had risen to 64 years — on a par with Europe’s average life expectancy. Moreover, our infant death rates had by then also been reduced from 174 to 55 infant deaths per thousand, higher than Europe’s, but considerably lower than the rest of the African continent’s.

Now, so-called brutal methods for dealing with the rising crime in South Africa can only be achieved through re-introducing Apartheid-era police tactics:

With one of the highest homicide rates in the world, South Africa has been struggling for years to reduce the violence. Next year's FIFA World Cup soccer tournament has increased the pressure for action, amid fears that a major crime could taint the event.

So desperate is the African National Congress government to cut crime that it has been willing to water down post-apartheid-era laws that made it illegal for police to shoot to kill when pursuing fleeing suspects.

The apartheid-era police force was feared and distrusted, and now surveys indicate eroding confidence in the contemporary force, due in large part to corruption and the frequent reluctance of police to act on crime reports or visit crime scenes. Wealthy suburbs are policed by "24-hour rapid response" private security squads and farmers volunteer for rural patrols.

The Financial Times is wrong: In a recent article, that magazine claims the slide into the abyss is far from certain for South Africa. Wrong, as the overwhelming evidence of money spent protecting the fans coming to enjoy "the beautiful game" in South Africa attests.

We will continue to post stories about South Africa (remember, we are only 2 posts into our 7 part series on the South African World Cup), for no more important event in the history of the world has the ability showcase the falsity of egalitarianism like this sporting contest (save a careful reading of world history).

Perhaps if the International community had not imposed a sports boycott on South Africa prior to Black rule in 1994, a peaceful and monumental World Cup could have been held in that nation long before 2010.

Alas, that scenario is the stuff dreams are made of.

Now you understand why the World Cup must covered with the same ferocity of a London Tabloid (God Bless The Daily Star) at this website.

We might not like soccer and find it insipid to watch, but only in dreams could a scenario unfold like the one we will soon see in South Africa.

Regular posts will continue, but detailed looks at the World Cup will become much more frequent.

This world we live in is due to the power transformative power of sports, and through this same power will it finally end.

Haiti isn't District 9. South Africa is though, and the World Cup will show the so-called civilized world that truth.

Remember: one game changes everything.

This World Cup was forced on South Africa by Disingenuous White Liberals within FIFA, at a time of great unrest with the Black governments performance in that nation - not to mention the murder of a man who could have led a civil war against the ANC in 1994 happening but two months ago.

If SBPDL was in the film Inception, this would be the scenario extracted from any dream dreamed.

This is why the World Cup will be kicked around a little longer at SBPDL.

World Cup Preview (Part 2): The South African World Cup Already a Failure

Is it wrong to call the World Cup in South Africa - an event hasn't even started yet - a failure? No.

It is not. We are told by Time magazine's Managing Editor Richard Stengel that Nelson Mandela is the most important person and greatest human on the planet (in that magazine's World Cup preview issue). Stengel wrote a book called Mandela's Way: Fifteen Lessons on Life, Love, and Courage, which serves as primer for the uninitiated in learning of the greatness of Nelson Mandela, a God among insects.

No man on the planet - according to Stengel - is as benevolent, magnanimous, genteel, gracious, refined and worldly as Mandela. He is not just a treasure to the multiracial nation he gave birth to, but a treasure to the world.

He brought Democracy to South Africa - Black rule to a nation founded and sustained by white people - in 1994 and with this, he helped usher in an epoch of unprecedented crime, murder and mayhem in his beloved homeland.

Well Mr. Stengel, the most important and greatest representative of human decency is also the man who presided over the complete ruination of an entire nation and is directly responsible for the hundreds of thousands of lives (both Black and white) lost in South Africa since that nation had the glories of "Democracy" forced upon it by Disingenuous White Liberals from around the world.

It will be remembered that a white liberal forced the World Cup on South Africa, the only nation in Africa capable of hosting such an event and sadly, completely incapable of ensuring the safety of its own citizens (not to mention World Cup fans) without the institution of massive safe-guards:

The phone rings endlessly in Kyle Condon's office. As the World Cup nears, tourists and foreign businessmen spooked by South Africa's crime rate are calling him to hire bodyguards.

"We have brought in 45 contractors who are being assigned to different projects, but we might have to recruit more," said Condon, who runs D&K Management Consultants.

"We have increased our revenues and our turnover by about three-fold" thanks to the World Cup, he said.

His clients are spending R2 000 to R4 000 a day, depending on their level of risk, to be accompanied by a man or a woman carrying a nine-millimetre firearm.

Many of the bodyguards are former soldiers or police officers. They're trained in marksmanship, emergency driving, first-aid, and fastidious planning.

"It's not about jumping in front of bullets. That's for movies with Kevin Costner," Condon said. "What we do: we plan your life for you during your stay. We are a kind of personal assistant."

His clients, all well-heeled but from varying backgrounds, know that South Africa has one of the world's highest crime rates, with an average of 50 killings a day.

They call Condon for "peace of mind and convenience", he said.

Fear of crime isn't limited to foreigners. Private security services are a mushrooming business in South Africa, posting 13% annual growth since the end of apartheid in 1994.

The 6 400 security firms accredited by the government have a collective turnover of R14-billion ($1,9-billion). That jumps to R40-billion when makers of electric fences, video surveillance and other services are included.

"Crime in South Africa generally increased from 1994 to 2003-2004," said Gareth Newham, a researcher with the Institute for Security Studies.

Crimes that cause fear
"Since then crime has dropped by 24% globally, but certain categories of crime have increased like house robberies, business robberies and car hijacking, and those crimes cause a lot of fear."

Security companies "use an existing fear to sell their products".

"People are scared. If they can afford it, they will," he said.

As a result, many upmarket neighbourhoods resemble bunkers.

Houses are surrounded by tall walls topped with electric fences.

Some streets have checkpoints and many are patrolled by private security firms.

South Africa has 375 000 private security guards, and 180 000 police officers.

Behind the walls, gardens have motion detectors linked to alarm systems and illuminated by spotlights. Windows have metal bars, and doors have multiple locks.

Inside, "panic buttons" let owners alert the security firm to a break-in, while metal gates lock off bedrooms from the rest of the house. Big dogs and hidden safes are also common.

Poorer neighbourhoods use barbed wire, broken bottles and nets on windows to keep intruders out.

"Everyone wants to protect themselves. People have guns, knives, batons," said Junior Yele, an official at Boa security services, which has won about 20 bodyguard contracts.

But he says there's a much cheaper solution to avoid criminals.

"The main advice in South Africa is don't show that you have money, don't attract attention."

Yes. To ensure the safety of World Cup fans, billions have been spent in the nation that owes its happy existence to the greatest man on the planet, Nelson Mandela.

The police presence will be immense in South Africa. The mere admission of this fact illustrates the complete failure of South Africa and Democracy under Mandela (and after him), and with the World Cup mired in such great fears of wanton criminality suppressed with an unprecedented level of international police force helps us understand the mighty contributions of the world's most important citizen:

JOHANNESBURG – The array of statistics South African officials have been touting in the lead up to the start of the World Cup on June 11 has certainly been impressive.

Fifty-five thousand new police officers, $88 million in new police equipment, the largest deployment of Interpol officers in the organization's history and up to eight police officers from each of the 31 visiting teams in country to assist in crime prevention.

Yet, despite the heavy investment in South Africa's defense infrastructure, this cup-crazed country has found itself facing fresh criticism over its security preparations on the eve of the big event.

South Africans were hit with a bombshell when a Johannesburg paper article reported that members of the U.S. Congress had been briefed on credible threats of attacks being planned by terrorist groups like al-Qaida and the Somalia based, al-Shahaab.

The report said that operatives from militant organizations had trained in terror camps in northern Mozambique may have already infiltrated South Africa and were poised to strike World Cup matches and events.

South Africa's top security officials were quick to dismiss the claims of a terrorist threat and expressed confidence in the revamped security force being rolled out.

Domestic crime
Whether the new revelations are enough to sway travelers to abandon their World Cup plans remains to be seen. But it is just another blemish on South Africa's desperate bid to change the perception of the country as a rough and tumble place unsafe for such a massive global event.

Recent statistics demonstrate that public perception is not far from the truth.

Statistics released by the South African Police Service showed that between April 2008 and March 2009, this country of 48 million million people had 18,148 murders and 70,514 sexual crimes. By comparison, the United States, with a population of 300 million, had 14,180 murders and 89,000 sexual crimes in 2008.

That means almost 50 murders are committed each day in South Africa. Yet, in the most recent State of the Union address by President Jacob Zuma in February, crime was only mentioned three times in his speech and no concrete prevention strategy was mentioned, much to the frustration of many South Africans.

The widespread perception of how commonplace violent crime is here may be far more damaging to the 2010 World Cup then any terrorist threat. People who live here are so used to the ubiquitous crime that they speak of it as something that can’t be avoided, only confronted.

At a popular watering hole in Johannesburg's suburb of Melville over the weekend, long-time patrons watched highlights of last week's South Africa vs. Columbia friendly match and offered player profiles over the dull groan of thousands of horns from the TV.

When discussion shifted inevitably to the front page news of the day about terrorist threats, opinions divided sharply over the veracity of those reports. However, all were quick to drive discussion away from terrorist threats to everyday crime. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the 55,000 additional police quickly became the butt of many complaints.

"Fifty-five thousand new police and I still get nervous if I have to walk home alone late at night" moaned one area resident working on a World Cup project. Another long time resident wondered aloud “Fifty-five thousand, but where are they?”

Indeed, driving extensively through the famously poor area of Soweto and Soccer City – the site of one of the beautiful new stadiums South Africa has erected for the World Cup – it is difficult to sense any significant police presence, a sentiment confirmed by longtime residents of Johannesburg.

Yet, despite the pervasiveness of crime here and the looming threat of terrorist threat, it seemed that night nobody at the bar was deterred from their belief that this World Cup was going to be the biggest, most successful party in African history.

Here’s to that dream coming true.

Stengel's subject of immense, intense and insufferably hagiographical words written in praise of Mr. Mandela seem astonishing to anyone presented with the enormity of the situation South Africa is faced with currently.

Only in the world of the Disingenuous White Liberal could a nation beset with unparalleled criminality have its progenitor be honored with the title of "world's greatest living person."

And that is what Time called Mandela - "the greatest man on earth".

A nation where hundreds of thousands - if not millions - have cried out in vain while their humanity and life is extirpated in the blink of an eye through unchecked criminality have one man to blame - Nelson Mandela.

The legacy of South Africa is his alone. The billions spent on security for the 2010 World Cup shines a bright light on the failure of Black rule, Democracy and the greatest man on earth, Nelson Mandela.

Regardless of what happens in South Africa starting June 11th, the 2010 World Cup has been a monumental failure. Every private citizen visiting that nation accompanied by a private security force is testament to this fact, as is the billions spent on enhancing the police-state infrastructure to give off the impression of momentary stability in Mandela's South Africa:

The national government spent 34 billion rand on preparations, while the 10 provincial administrations and nine host cities contributed more than 9 billion rand.

About 44,000 police officers have been assigned to protect teams and fans during the competition. More than 5,700 incidents of serious crime are reported in South Africa each day, including 50 homicides, one of the highest rates in the world.

Of course, the shockingly high amount of money FIFA took out in insurance to protect the investment of the World Cup in South Africa is but another melancholy reminder of why this event is already a failure:

The Fédération Internationale de Football Assn. is protecting its investment with $650 million in coverage to protect against postponement or relocation of the event, which runs June 11 through July 11. The bulk of the coverage, which will remain in place for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, is reinsured by Swiss Reinsurance Co. and Munich Reinsurance Co.

FIFA did not purchase insurance to cover cancellation of the World Cup. The organization chose not to cover that risk because “even if the event is delayed for any reason, it is extremely unlikely that it would be called off,” a spokesman said in an e-mail.

Insurance and security in South Africa will be in place for 64 matches played in nine cities during the monthlong World Cup centered in Johannesburg. Estimates of the number of visitors have ranged as high as 450,000 to watch the games.

As is the despondent amount of tickets not sold for the event.

Stuff Black People Don't Like declares the 2010 World Cup in South Africa a disaster before the first official contest of "the beautiful game" is played. There is still time to move the event.

Do it. Or risk the complete detonation of Black Run America in the process of South Africa's televised debacle.

For the ranks of those who can see grow by the day. Why broadcast the state of a formerly white run country (and white founded) besieged by a visibly Black majority that comprise the leadership of its current government?

People in America know why Detroit is in ruins. Now, the entire world will be witness to what South Africa has become. The common denominator of both of those places? Populated by 90 percent or more Black people.

This World Cup is the true legacy of Mandela and we hope he is healthy enough to view the events in their entirety.

There is still time to move the games, for remember the ESPN tag line of the 2010 World Cup: One game changes everything.

One game will showcase Mandela's true legacy in ways no amount of fawning prose - basically written Felatio - courtesy of Time's Richard Stengel could counteract.

The USA Today reports simply this:

While South Africa's murder rate has declined since 2004, it is eight times higher than that of the USA. In Gauteng, a province that's home to 10.5 million people and the World Cup host cities Johannesburg and Pretoria, there were 1,940 violent crimes reported for every 100,000 people in 2008. The violent crime rate in Michigan, which has a similar population, was nearly one-fourth that number.

Here, the Telegraph of London reports the extraordinary measures taken by South Africa police, the same force that owes its glories to Mandela:

BaySecur, the security consultancy in charge of Germany 2006, said: "The possibility for the players of moving outside of the hotel boundaries should be kept to a minimum.

"Otherwise there must be a full escort; armed security guards and bullet-proof vests for the players."

The South African government has announced a dedicated force of 41,000 police officers, following a huge recruitment drive to increase the numbers of officers by 55,000 to over 190,000 by the end of 2009.

Yes, the 2010 World Cup in South Africa is already a failure.

One Game Changes Everything

If you watch ESPN, you have seen this tag line for the 2010 World Cup quite frequently – One Game Changes Everything.

The idea behind this marketing strategy is to imply that with the first game being played in South Africa (on June 11) all is changed, changed utterly.

The continent of Africa has never hosted a World Cup and curiously, the only nation capable of fielding this global event is South Africa. But 16 years removed from international boycotts levied by the entire world, South Africa was graciously allowed to formalize normal trading relations once minority-rule by those who created that nation was supplanted with majority-rule by those who had the good fortune of living on that continent in vastly superior numbers.

Now, we are about to find out how wonderful life in South Africa is now, thanks to the benevolent rule of Africans over that of the malicious reign of terror imposed by the white minority called Apartheid. We’ve discussed South Africa before at SBPDL, but next week you’ll be treated to the most in-depth preview of the coming World Cup in South Africa available anywhere.

Bloomberg Businessweek dedicated a cover story to South Africa, the impending World Cup and the current standard of living that citizens of that nation enjoy. For all the praise that is heaped in the general direction of Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu, the macabre underbelly of the actual day-to-day struggle of life in South Africa is shockingly sadistic:

The couple is thoroughly conversant in South Africa's challenges: crime, poor schools, a recent outbreak of anti-immigrant violence, political corruption. They recount headlines about black students outside of Cape Town who went on strike because their class size of 60-plus prevented anyone from learning anything. "It can be discouraging at times," says Eberhard.

They also know that somewhere between 500,000 and 1 million white South Africans, depending on whose statistics you believe, now live in Britain. Some have gone seeking opportunity; others have fled what Young calls "the more difficult aspects of being a young democracy." Crime is high on that list. The U.S. State Dept. still ranks South Africa as among the most crime-ridden nations on the African continent, reporting that it has "the highest incidence of reported rape in the world."

The individual behind this site has read every book possible on the so-called “Beautiful Game” that Americans call soccer and the world calls futbol. Trying to understand a sport so many Americans – and Black people in particular – shy away would difficult, were it not for the bountiful supply of books that have been published recently that explain the game to a laymen and adds further proof to the thesis of this site: without sports, Black people would have absolutely no positive role models.

One Game Changes Everything. If the World Cup in South Africa goes off without a hitch, despite the fact that The Wall Street Journal has already published reports on the melancholy ticket sales and interest in traveling to the ‘Rainbow Nation”, then what is gained?

Will the Disingenuous White Liberal's of the world smile if the World Cup goes off without any problems, since it was FIFA President Joseph “Sepp” Blatter who pushed for the tournament to be hosted on the Dark Continent:

But the FIFA chief said his first task was to deliver a successful World Cup in South Africa in June and July.
"The World Cup in South Africa is my World Cup," Blatter said.

"I wanted the World Cup to go to Africa and I have to see it through. The international media, especially in Europe, are watching me.''

Blatter told The USA Today that his great hope for the games is that Nelson Mandela can be present for them, since the current state of South Africa is his legacy:

But, as FIFA president Sepp Blatter has suggested all along, South Africa 2010 could have a lasting effect throughout Africa, not just in the host country.

"We can all applaud Africa," Blatter said way back in 2004, when this cup was awarded. "The victor is football. The victor is Africa."

Blatter remains hopeful Nelson Mandela will be healthy enough to attend the opening game at Soccer City, one of 10 stadiums being used in nine cities. South Africa's most famous citizen campaigned hard to bring the World Cup to his country, and tears of joy filled his eyes when it won the tournament.

But Mandela is 91, and rarely makes public appearances anymore.

"We cross fingers that Nelson Mandela ... can realize this dream. And his dream would be to be at the opening of the World Cup," Blatter said. "It will be his World Cup."

Already, reports of strikes within the transport and electrical industries threaten the peace and harmony of the World Cup. And we are still two weeks away from the first kick. Security for the games has been a huge concern, as South Africa had 19,000 murders in 2008 (50 per day). The Telegraph in England published a story on May 28 in an attempt to downplay the violence in South Africa:

Much has been said in the build-up to the World Cup about South Africa's crime problem and the threats to visiting supporters. While crime is a serious problem here, it needs to be put in perspective. The country's murder rate has decreased from 67.9 per 100,000 in 1995 to 37.3 in 2009. That is an overall decrease of about 44 per cent. Of course, this figure is still extremely high when compared to the global homicide rate of 7.6 per 100,000 and, in real terms, amounts to almost 50 murders per day. However, in almost 80 per cent of murders, the victim and killer are known to each other – in other words, it is within a social context that poses no direct threat to strangers. The same can be said for other so-called "social fabric" crimes such as rape, assault and attempted murder.

House robbery, business robbery and car hijackings are currently South Africa's biggest crime threat, and attempts to address this problem have not been very successful. However, with the possible exception of car hijackings, they, too, pose little threat to tourists. Visitors who rent cars may face the same risks as South Africans as far as hijackings are concerned, but it should also be pointed out that during the six weeks of the Cricket World Cup in South Africa in 2003, when hijackings were more or less at the same level, no hijackings connected to the tournament were reported.

Probably the biggest potential threats to tourists are street robbery and muggings, which still constitute about 60 per cent of all aggravated robberies. According to the police's annual report for 2008-2009, firearms were used in 57 per cent of these crimes and knives in 38 per cent, but these weapons were mostly used to threaten and not to cause physical harm.

The Los Angeles Times published an excellent guide to those traveling to South Africa to view the World Cup and stated that despite exorbitant crime and AIDS rates, it is still beautiful country. Of course, this website pointed out that the eyes of the world are unprepared for the sight of corruption they will soon see when the cameras are on and broadcasting from South Africa.

Next week, the preview of the upcoming World Cup in South Africa begins. A clearer picture of what will unfold there will not be found anywhere else. We are reminded of the movie Invictus when we hear the phrase, One Game Changes Everything.

That film ends with the 1995 rugby victory, but forgets to show the viewer what followed that wonderful moment of reconciliatory congratulations and hope for racial unity. Perhaps the 2010 World Cup will provide a most apt sequel:

Blacks for the most part still live in poverty, and the gap between rich and poor has only grown since 1994.

The end of apartheid was also the beginning of a national experiment in building unity. Sport has been used to move the process. Recalled by last year’s Oscar-nominated film “Invictus,” black President Nelson Mandela made a statement at the 1995 rugby World Cup final by wearing the green and gold jersey of the Springboks, the country’s national rugby team many blacks associated with the most racist whites.

Pillay, a researcher at South Africa’s Human Science Research Council, said the World Cup “now is the emotional glue that holds the country together.”

While soccer fans might be shocked to see beggars — black and white — outside gleaming shopping malls, South Africans are used to living in two worlds at once.

Think of the legions of black maids who leave shacks without running water or electricity, boarding buses before dawn to travel into white areas to clean palatial homes.

Johannesburg businessman Mandla Sibeko summed up the contrasts: “South Africa, we’re a crazy nation.

“The world is going to be amazed at how hopeful and how patient South Africans are.”

One Game Changes Everything. Join us next week to find out why.

The Impending Collapse of South Africa and the Implications for the 2010 World Cup

We at SBPDL went on record that a Nelson Mandela death prior to the 2010 World Cup would ruin the chances of a successful futbol (soccer) tournament in that downtrodden nation.

But two months away from the first kick, soccer fans everywhere are counting down the moments until their beloved nations compete for the FIFA World Cup Championship from the haven for criminality or, the nation of South Africa.

SBPDL has been reading the unworthy tome A Country at War With Itself: South Africa's Crisis of Crime, and were it not for our knowledge of the racial makeup of the nation the reader would be unaware that the crime is committed almost entirely by the liberated Black people. The writer rarely discusses race is in book, hoping the reader still maintains the view of South Africa as depicted in Lethal Weapon 2.

The author assiduously avoids mentioning the unmentionable and seemingly immutable bond between crime and race, inadvertently denying the reader the knowledge that Black people have turned the once relatively peaceful South Africa into a nation that even John Carpenter would have grave difficulty having Snake Plissken escape from in one piece.

South Africa will host the 2010 World Cup, but it will also continue to be host to a murder rate of nearly 50 people per day. Compound that shockingly high murder rate with the influx of hundreds of thousands of tourists sporting cash and other tangible goods on their person and we at SBPDL expect a 30 - 50 percent increase in the murder rate during the 2010 World Cup in South Africa (already, soccer fans from countries participating in the World Cup are afraid of the crime rate and will stay at home in droves, denying a major economic impact to not only merchants in South Africa, but looters and muggers as well, not to mention prostitutes).

Two recent stories showcase life under Black rule in South Africa. One, includes the war against White farmers that the African National Congress (ANC) has been waging since the takeover (handover) of that nation in 1994:

THE gunmen walked silently through the orchard. Skirting a row of burnt-out tyres, set ablaze months earlier to keep the budding fruit from freezing, they drew their old .38 revolvers.

Inside his farmhouse Pieter Cillier, 57, slept with his 14-year-old daughter Nikki at his side. His 12-year-old son JD was having a sleepover with two teenagers in an adjoining room.

As the intruders broke in, the farmer woke. He rushed to stop them, only to be shot twice in the chest.

In his death throes he would have seen his killers and then his children standing over him, screaming and crying.

The attackers, who were drug addicts, simply disappeared into the night. Cillier’s murder, at Christmas, was barely reported in the local press. It was, after all, everyday news.

Death has stalked South Africa’s white farmers for years. The number murdered since the end of apartheid in 1994 has passed 3,000.

In neighbouring Zimbabwe, a campaign of intimidation that began in 2000 has driven more than 4,000 commercial farmers off their land, but has left fewer than two dozen dead.

The vulnerability felt by South Africa’s 40,000 remaining white farmers intensified earlier this month when Julius Malema, head of the African National Congress’s (ANC’s) youth league, opened a public rally by singing Dubula Ibhunu, or Shoot the Boer, an apartheid-era anthem, that was banned by the high court last week.

The Times Online of the London mentions the song Shoot the Boer, and yet another story discusses the egregious refusal of the ruling Black people to denounce the signing of this song, only further fanning the flames of racial violence by the ruling Black people against the dwindling white population whose ancestors dared to build a nation out of the wilderness of Africa:

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's ruling party on Tuesday defended the singing of an apartheid-era song with the words "Kill the Boer" in a row that has raised fears of increasing racial polarisation.

The African National Congress dismissed a ruling by a regional high court last week that uttering or publishing the words would amount to hate speech and violate the constitution put in place after the end of white minority rule.

"These songs cannot be regarded as hate speech or unconstitutional," ANC Secretary General Gwede Mantashe told a news conference. "Any judgment that describes them as such is impractical and unimplementable."

The recent singing of the song by firebrand ANC youth wing leader Julius Malema, who argues that black South Africans have not benefited enough from 16 years of democracy, drew anger from whites and other minority groups.

The lyrics of the song, sung in Zulu, translate as "kill the farmer, kill the Boer", referring to the former ruling white minority.

"Most people realise that this is a struggle song but many whites cannot help but feel that they are being targeted," said Marius Roodt a researcher at the South African Institute of Race Relations.

"The ANC needs to be sympathetic to the feelings of minorities especially if there is a perception created that they endorse inflammatory statements.

President Jacob Zuma has repeatedly stressed the importance of reconciliation in what became known as the "Rainbow Nation" after the relatively peaceful transition from apartheid.

The World Cup will be a failure (here is a great, balanced, website about crime in South Africa). If Mandela dies before or during the World Cup, "Kill the Boer" could become "Kill any White Devil" in the country.

Black people in not just America, but around the world must understand the serious implications of what a disastrous World Cup in Post-Apartheid, Black-run South Africa will mean: Black people are incapable of running anything significant; from a county in America (like Jefferson or Clayton); to a city (like Detroit); or to a nation they earned by killing every white person on the island (like Haiti); to a simple sporting event.

Sports create the idea of equality through the vast inequality of the athletes participating in the games. White people receive positive images of Black people and thus, Black people are allowed to participate in a society that would otherwise reject them.

For the sake of the future of Black Run America (BRA), the World Cup must be moved from South Africa. If not, be prepared for the destruction of the egalitarian myth that holds together this nation (and world) with the strength of badly stretched rubber band.

It's almost ready to rip apart. The World Cup in South Africa will supply the final amount of pressure necessary to cause it to break apart forever.

If Mandela passes away then "Kill the Boer" will transpire, and yet the spirit of Epic Beard Man will manifest itself with righteous indignation across the globe.

Again, SBPDL encourages the cancellation of the World Cup from the unsafe cities and stadiums of South Africa.

If not, the irony of the sporting world destroying the fragile world order it helped create will not be lost (see the film Invictus and any American movie made about race and sport).

See here where South African President Jacob Zuma assures fears of the South African World Cup are misguided.

See here where HIV will explode during the Cup.

A Scenario of Sheer Horror - Nelson Mandela Dying Before the 2010 World Cup in South Africa

We are three months out from the start of the 2010 FIFA World Cup and the world is anxiously awaiting the opportunity to celebrate the first occurrence of this soccer competition to be played on the African Continent.

The lone nation capable of holding such a prestigious tournament on the Dark Continent is South Africa, a country that only twenty years ago was the most hated on earth for its system of Apartheid that kept the white minority in power and the Black majority from killing each other.

South Africa. The mere mention of this nation will elicit contemptuous looks of sheer hatred from some who have never forgotten nor can forget the evilness that was Apartheid. Sadly, these types forget that the white people who built and sustained that nation bowed to massive international pressure and handed over the reigns of power, peacefully. a

And yet, others look at the social experiment of handing power peacefully over to a people incapable of such a monumental task of governing a 1st World power that had developed nuclear missiles as an exercise in futility.

South Africa is a nation run by Black people, but unlike Haiti, the current inhabitants of power never engaged in bloody revolution to pacify their land. White people handed it over and orchestrated a melancholy surrender of a nation that arose from the sparsely populated fields of Southern Africa to become a 1st rate nation.

That disgusting system of racial dominance by white people (a small minority representing a tiny island amidst a sea of Black people) was defeated through the combined efforts of international economic isolation, Nelson Mandela and the lack of ability to play rugby in foreign tournaments (read the book Invictus).

So, the picture is painted of a joyful South Africa since the peace between white and Black people was reached:

Nonetheless, the tide could not be held back once the path was decided on. Democratic elections were held in 1994, with Mandela voted in as president and de Klerk as vice president. Mandela and de Klerk jointly earned the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 for ending apartheid. Without them, South Africa's rocky road would have proved more difficult to traverse.

The democratic constitution that went into effect on Feb. 3, 1997, guaranteed equality to all, regardless of race, plus freedom of the press, freedom of religion, and a commitment to uphold human rights.

But the nation is still saddled with a lot of baggage from its apartheid past: oppression, poverty, exploitation of the majority of the people, unevenly distributed educational opportunities, dilapidated townships, a 23 percent unemployment rate, rampant crime, a huge gap between rich and poor, and high AIDS mortality rates.

Crime is a major problem in South Africa, where each day the struggle for existence tallies up 50 people killed daily, the hope of a post-Apartheid peaceful world is an elusive dream. Thus, the 2010 FIFA World Cup being held in a nation known for having crime rates that make Haiti look civilized is raising some eye-brows and the entrepreneurial spirits of clothing manufactures:

A London-based security clothing company has been blasted for marketing a "stab-proof vest" for football fans planning to visit this summer's World Cup in South Africa.

With as many as 50 South Africans in the nation of 49 million people killed daily, according to official government statistics, security has been a key issue for tournament organizers.

According to South African police figures there were 18,148 murders in the year ending March 2009 and knives or sharp objects were used in about 52 percent of the deaths.

But the figures -- which show 50 percent of killings were the result of arguments or misunderstandings and 16 percent the consequence of another crime -- do not identify how many tourists were killed.

A recent film - Invictus - depicts a fictional world where Black and white people live in relative harmony throughout South Africa and how a simple rugby game created a nation overwhelmed in peace and tranquility.

Fairy tales are best left to Hollywood, for though the story of that unfolds in Clint Eastwood's film is based on truth, the prospects for harmonious relations between the Black majority and white minority were always going to be icy. Even Black-on-Black relationships would end in disaster as the crime rates largely display a people at war with themselves.

Nevertheless, World Cup organizers are enthusiastic the nation can magically come together again through the power of sport to forget history and enjoy the mind-numbing boredom of watching two teams kick a soccer ball up and down a field. Sports helped bring peace to New Orleans and they can do it in South Africa:

The World Cup will do even more to forge a united South Africa than Nelson Mandela's success in pulling a divided country together through the 1995 world rugby tournament, the chief organiser said on Thursday.

Danny Jordaan, chief executive of the local organising committee, also said FIFA would introduce special charter flights and direct ticket sales in response to African anger at the difficulty of attending the continent's first soccer World Cup.

"It is always important to further strengthen social cohesion in our country, to strengthen nation building, and I think that in this regard the impact is going to be massive, much more than the 1995 (rugby) World Cup," he said.

The story of how South Africa's victory in that tournament calmed white fears, averting possible civil war a year after the end of apartheid, is shown in Clint Eastwood's film "Invictus."

South Africa is a dangerous place, only more so thanks to the delusional rants of politicians trying to sugarcoat the unsavory state of many of the nations formerly safe and functional cities that have descended into madness, mayhem and murder:

While many of the fruits of freedom have gone to the former black revolutionaries who now hold cabinet posts, sit in Parliament, and hold other government positions with substantial salaries and perks, there remain large numbers of blacks whose impatient, and perhaps unrealistic, expectations of the transition from white power to black have not been met.

Shantytowns have not been replaced with affordable housing. Water and electricity and other basic requirements of the infrastructure to support democracy are still lacking for many. Official agencies are sometimes bastions of bureaucratic incompetence and corruption. In Johannesburg, it can take more than four months to get your car license renewed. Some citizens say they circumvent the system by "buying" their renewals – slipping a bribe to a licensing officer.

South Africa has just outpaced India as the country with the highest incidence of AIDS in the world, and critics say the government has been tardy in grappling with the problem.

Though opportunities have arisen for some upper-class blacks to prosper in business, many others still live in squalor. For many, the jobs that they thought would come overnight with democracy have never materialized. Unemployment is running around 25 percent.

Thus the big cities such as Johannesburg have become seedbeds for robbery and violent hijacking, making crime South Africa's biggest problem. Sometimes it is the work of individuals; sometimes the work of organized gangs.

One black editor, while in no way supporting the old apartheid regime, remarks wryly: "There was no city crime or unemployment in the old days. If you were a black without a [residence] pass and a letter from your boss saying you had a job, the police would run you out of town. Today, whether you are black or white, you take your life in your hands if you walk downtown at night."

When people see the movie Invictus they watch a film that has less to do with reality than say a science fiction film like Jurassic Park or Poltergeist - more evidence exists for the genetic engineering and manipulation of DNA from 65 million year old dinosaurs than South Africa ever resembling a nation of sanity and unity.

More evidence exists of ghosts and encounters with the undead than empirical data or observable trends of hope for South Africa and its majority Black population and dwindling, hopeless and hate white minority (underclass).

Thus, Stuff Black People Don't Like puts forward a most macabre prediction that we hope doesn't happen. Speculation has long centered around the theory that once Nelson Mandela passes away, the white minority - already targeted for rape, crime, plundering and murder - will be decimated by vengeful Black people retaliating for years of persecution under Apartheid.

At 91, Mandela is in poor health. The former communist turned darling of the Disingenuous White Liberal world holds the key to a shaky truce that few Black people regard as legitimate in South Africa, and upon his death this peace will be forever shattered:

While former South African President Nelson Mandela, 85, scoffs at rumors of ill health, plans are being made by the nation's Communist Party to slaughter all whites in the country upon his death, G2B sources say.

One of the operations planned entails 70,000 armed black men "being transported to the Johannesburg city center within an hour" in taxicabs to attack whites.

The plans are variously dubbed "Operation Vula," "Night of the Long Knives," "Operation White Clean-up," "Operation Iron Eagle" and "Red October campaign."

Operation "Our Rainy Day" was to be carried out after the death of Nelson Mandela and would have entailed blacks being transported to the largest cities in taxis.

The assailants were expected to "take over" fuel points and massacre whites. The attacks would lead to a coup.

Sources say most blacks in the country are aware of the plans. When racial disputes occur, blacks often tell whites, "Wait until Mandela dies.”

"White people in South Africa can deny it to the end of the earth, but we are in real danger," one resident said. "This is no joke and any person with half a brain can see that this rumor has spiraled out of control."

Many whites are now convinced a vicious campaign of ethnic cleansing will follow Mandela's death whenever it comes. Some are making preparations for retreats.

"I have prepared myself and we have a gathering place where we can fortify for four weeks after Mandela’s death," said one white South African. "If nothing happens it will be a miracle."

Granted this article quoted is six years old, however the reality of Black-on-white crime in South Africa (and the United States) does little to dissuade SBPDL of its authenticity.

Crime in South Africa is so bad that the terror attack on the Togo soccer team in 2009 in Angolo has scared people the world over, even though South Africa is nowhere near Angolo.

Carjackings are a threat, warns the British government. SBPDL warns soccer fans that Nelson Mandela dying could be a threat to your life, not just your car.

Ticket sales for the World Cup in South Africa are abysmal, not because of high prices as FIFA claims, but because of high crime rates, HIV rates and murder rates that plague the nation and those tourists asinine enough to be in the dark about the lawlessness omnipresent.

Black on white crime is a terrible problem in South Africa, only topped by outrageous rates of Black on Black crime.

The World Cup in South Africa could turn out to be a monumental success, to the surprise of everyone. It could be a failure on par with New Coke. If Nelson Mandela tragically passes, it could be an event of unparalleled catastrophe.
Stuff Black People Don't Like would like to request of all readers to send any story on South Africa and the World Cup that they find to SBPDL1@gmail.com

To those who think Invictus is the happy ending that actually occurred in South Africa, pay close attention to the next sentence: South Africa is a beautiful land cursed with the tragedy of false hope and delusional notions of equality that position the nation on a precipice nearing total disaster.

Already, fears of HIV being spread is a concern of constant stress for officials (like in the United States and the CDC, Black people in South Africa have little regard for safe sex).

The 2010 World Cup in South Africa will be a disaster of epic proportions that not even Hollywood script writers can hide. And if Mandela passes away prior to the first kick, well, SBPDL shudders to think of what may transpire.