Radio Netherlands: Is the World Cup too expensive for Africa?

"The investments were budgeted at a few million. The real cost will be a thousandfold; 3 to 5 billion. And that in a country where a large part of the population still lives in deep poverty."



(Apologies for the lousy embedded video obtained from RNW's site.)

See this related report from Democracy Now! (an interview made prior to the start of the matches) - Raj Patel on How South Africa Has Cracked Down on the Poor and the Shack Dwellers’ Movement

HELEN SUZMAN 1917-2009

From the INDEPENDENT:

Helen Gavronsky, politician: born Germiston, South Africa 7 November 1917; Lecturer in Economic History, University of Witwatersrand 1944-52; MP (United Party) for Houghton, Republic of South Africa 1953-61, (Progressive Party, later Progressive Reform Party and Progressive Federal Party) for Houghton 1961-89; Honorary Fellow, St Hugh's College, Oxford 1973; Honorary Fellow, London School of Economics 1975; Honorary DBE 1999; Honorary Fellow, New Hall, Cambridge 1990; President, South African Institute of Race Relations 1991-93; Member, South African Human Rights Commission 1996-98; married 1937 Dr Moses Suzman (died 1994; two daughters); died Johannesburg, South Africa 1 January 2009.