[Thanks for this info and these comments JC. It will be fascinating to watch this. I was not aware that there might be a stadium in Nelspruit. Are you sure? Really? I thought the stadiums were only in the major cities? Is this for real? Jan]

Regarding your article about how the construction costs for building the new soccer/sport stadiums are getting out of hand, I have it on good authority that the construction of the stadium proposed for Nelspruit may not happen at all. There are three schools located on the land intended for the stadium and no effort to relocate those schools had been taken on up to now. Please, don™t forget, they have less than three years to complete that stadium. Personally I think they would not be able to pull 2010 off with success.

It is my understanding that the City Council™s new procurement system is so difficult, it takes an employee about 4 days to order a print cartridge. It just makes me think that, if it is so difficult to request a simple office item, how difficult would it be to buy building material for the proposed stadium?

I am inclined to think that HKGK (hier kom groot kak) for Nelspruit and South Africa. I wonder what ol™ Seppie of FIFA will have to say about this. I find the extent to which the South African Government and their partners-in-crime have managed to convince the rest of the world that they can pull off 2010, amazing. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, all the signs that point to the contrary are there. Sepp Blatter and FIFA must be blind. Or are they just acting (152)˜politically correct™ by giving South Africa the benefit of the doubt?

Either way, there is still going to be GK. Wait and see.
JC