Posted on 06/11/2010 7:35:14 AM PDT by libh8er
Shirley Fisher says she was evicted from a hostel near a stadium where soccer's biggest stars train. Natasha Flores says she was driven out of squatters' quarters near a new $450 million stadium in one of Cape Town's busiest tourist areas.
Both ended up in Blikkiesdorp, a settlement of corrugated-iron shacks ringed by a concrete fence, home to hundreds of evicted families. Many residents say there is only one reason they wound up in this bleak place, which in Afrikaans means "tin-can town."
"The World Cup," said Fisher, 41, without hesitation.
Human rights campaigners say South African authorities have forcibly moved thousands of the impoverished to Blikkiesdorp and other settlements to present a good image of the nation during the World Cup, which begins Friday. Cape Town city council officials deny the allegations. What is clear is that the complaints have exposed the wide gap between South Africa's rich and poor residents 16 years after the end of apartheid.
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Gee, and just when the rich foreigners were arriving, from whom they could have begged, stolen or sold themselves to!
“What is clear is that the complaints have exposed the wide gap between South Africa’s rich and poor residents 16 years after the end of apartheid.”
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I believe I’ll just dust it off, straighten its collar, put it up on a pedestal, and let that little factual nugget just stand on its own.......
...or murdered and robbed.
How’s that change working out for you.
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