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Original Post Date: 2010-07-10 Time: 13:00:22 Posted By: Jan
The 2010 FIFA World cup has been quite bizarre. They claim that hundreds of thousands of visitors came to SA, and to be frank with you, I have seen no indication of foreigners at all.
Ok, I don’t go out that much, but I have been out and about for a couple of evenings during the FIFA world cup and I have gone to the normal shops and shopping centres I go to – and I saw NOTHING DIFFERENT. Today when I was having my photo taken for my American Visa, I saw a young foreigner in the shop and he was chatting up a sales girl. This is the first foreigner I’ve come across during the whole FIFA world cup.
Ok, I never went to a stadium.
But I would have thought with this vast influx of people to have seen someone around or noticed a difference.
That friend of mine who was at municipal meetings and spoke of roads and traffic and predicted traffic jams… NONE HAPPENED. Going to work, coming from work… on evenings of matches or no matches… I noticed nothing different.
To me, EVERYTHING WAS THE SAME.
Except for one thing…
The roads were QUIET. Because they rushed to finish all the myriad of roadworks around Johannesburg and around the highways in Johannesburg… we now had new… open roads.
The roads have simply been a DELIGHT – especially the highways. I’ve driven on the highways quite a lot since the FIFA World cup started and the highways were the greatest delight ever. No congestion, nothing…
After the first soccer match (oh, and by the way, I’ve not watched a single world cup soccer match during all this time – except by accident when it was on the plasma TV screens at my work and I glanced up) – I completely ignored the whole match schedule and never thought about it since. I never adjusted my driving or my routine. The roads were a pleasure, even when I drove on highways that are normally busy.
I am told the foreigners are mostly in Sandton and not in my suburb. I would have thought with Cresta Shopping mall, one of the largest malls in Johannesburg, that I would have seen lots of foreigners there – but nope – not until today.
So exactly how many foreigners arrived I don’t know. I believe the Govt claims it is a huge amount. If so… I don’t know where they all are because if they’ve hidden a 100,000 or 200,000 additional people in Johannesburg, I would have thought we’d notice.
And clearly the municipality was expecting their presence to be VISIBLE… But like I say… if so… I have seen nothing.
If you told me that ZERO foreigners arrived … I would have felt that was more like it.
We had one or two nights with electricity cuts which I mentioned to you and since then… none.
Everything has been amazingly quiet.
Perhaps the black criminals were too busy at the soccer or stealing from journalists and others at the soccer to bother us – but all in all, its been quiet.
The roadworks around Johannesburg have been going on for years in preparation for this… and with them finishing most (but not all) of them… the roads have been an utter delight.
The only congestion I know of was earlier this week an Afrikaans girl at my work told me she was caught in a massive traffic jam on wednesday at Midrand between Johannesburg and Pretoria. The normal 45 minute drive became a 3 hour one because they shut down several sections of various highways in preparation for the world cup final tomorrow. They shut down some highways for the whole day.
I do hear the Dutch team have done well, and the Germans have done well. I don’t know who will be in the final, whether it will be both of them. Either way, if either team wins it will be cool.
Just for the record. I do not support anything the ANC is involved in and therefore I made a point of it not to watch (not even for 5 minutes) or take any real interest in the FIFA World cup this time round. Next time round, when it is in another country, I’ll take more interest in it. But not this time.
Oh, and the Vuvuzelas fell silent after Bafana Bafana flunked out, and thank God, I’ve not heard a vuvuzela in ages. The silence has been delightful and the roads, especially the highways have been AWESOME!! (This is probably the last time for the next 30 years that the ANC will make any repairs to the highways – so I’m enjoying the roads while I can before the ANC f*ck them up again!!!)