FAHRENHEIT 2010
POST PRODUCTION SCRIPT
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DANNY JORDAAN, CEO SA 2010 LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Let me sit up then. I am Danny Jordaan. I am the Chief Executive Officer of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.
You see I've got my legal team here. They'll advise me.
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ARCHBISHOP EMERITUS DESMOND TUTU, NOBEL LAUREATE
Most of us used to play soccer... I was hopeless.
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PETER AUF DER HEYDE, INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL JOURNALIST
Actually the majority of people in South Africa are football mad.
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FIFA ANNOUNCEMENT - BLATTER
The 2010 FIFA World Cup will be organised in ... South Africa.
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FAHRENHEIT 2010
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WARMING UP FOR THE WORLD CUP IN SOUTH AFRICA
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ZAYN NABBI, SPORTS BROADCASTER
In 1948 we were a country that legislated racism with apartheid, and in that time sport, for a millisecond, gave you a chance to escape.
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ZAPIRO, CARTOONIST
There is a little bit of illusion around it, I mean sport itself is not going to unite a nation. You actually have to have things that are far bigger.
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ZAYN NABBI, SPORTS BROADCASTER
So, a new democracy, a new non-racial South Africa has not meant a better life for people. People need a place to escape. Sport gives you that escape. And people need a home. They need a cathedral to go to every week and to worship.
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PETER AUF DER HEYDE, INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL JOURNALIST
There will definitely be a feel good factor, you know, and I think that that is something, given South Africa, where we are at the moment, you know, and people not having jobs, I think that's something - I don't know if you want to call it tangible, but it is something important. But at the end of the day it's not going to put food on their plates and it's not going to give them jobs.
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HANS KLAUS, FIFA DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS
I think this is a very special thing itself, just the fact that it's the first world to have played, World Cup, and played on, on the African continent, and I think if you are going through the country and if you are talking to the people here around - so you, you feel it's an issue, the people start to talk about it, and I think it will be a unique experience.
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JOSEPH NYAMBI, STREET TRADER, ALEXANDRA TOWNSHIP
We make more business if 20 to 10 come, I'm so happy. We'll make more money.
African language [Song - music]
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Football can make a small country big -
ROGER MILLA
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FROM PARIAH TO HOST
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MIKE COOPER - NARRATOR
In June and July 2010, South Africa will host the FIFA World Cup, and will bask in a moment of national pride and international affirmation, that would have been unthinkable a mere 20 years ago. In the 1980s South Africa was a pariah state, reviled for its brutality, racist legal order, and reduction of black South Africans to a reservoir of cheap labour. The achievement of a democratic political order and the removal of apartheid's yoke have not, however, been accompanied by delivery of the vast majority of black South Africans from their circumstances of poverty and disadvantage. They remain trapped in a cycle that has been centuries in the making.
There are exceptions to the rule towards the top of the economic pyramid, with conspicuous examples of black upward mobility, the so-called Black Diamonds having achieved millionaire and billionaire status in little over a decade. The sad reality for the masses at the base is that their circumstances remain as abject as ever.
Unemployment, depending upon how one measures it, is between 25% and 40%. Millions live in shacks and do not have running water or electricity. Hospitals are ill-equipped to cope with a health crisis of staggering proportions. The HIV AIDS epidemic has, according to the UN AIDS Agency, left an estimated 51/2 million South Africans infected. It is estimated that there are currently almost 1,000 AIDS-related deaths each day in South Africa.
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Deaths from all causes registered in South Africa each year increased from 316,559 in 1997 to 605,480 by 2006
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A key element of South Africa's bid to host the World Cup was its argument that the tournament would provide momentum to growth and development and that the people would reap the benefits.
This film does not question whether South Africa should host the World Cup. The opportunities the tournament offers to market the country and to invoke national pride are unquestionable. A central enquiry is why a developing country with extreme socio-economic challenges would choose, or be expected, to divert funds from investment in hospitals, housing and education, to build huge sports arenas that will rival first world amenities, an initiative despite the existence of existing facilities in which the 1995 Rugby World Cup and FIFA's 2009 Confederations Cup were staged.
The World Cup is an international television phenomenon with FIFA claiming that a billion viewers will be watching the event. South Africa will not share in the multi-billion dollar television revenues that FIFA is set to receive. Among many questions relating to the manner in which the event is to be staged is whether, during those four weeks, stadia boasting 21st century design elements, or that can accommodate 70,000 as opposed to 50,000 spectators, will have any bearing upon the quality of the football or upon the enjoyment of fans gathered in homes and bars in London, Berlin, Rio and anywhere else.
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Everything I've learned about human morality and duty, I've learned from football
- ALBERT CAMUS
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GREAT EXPECTATIONS
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DANNY JORDAAN, CEO SA 2010 LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE
South Africans are passionate about football. They have vuvuzelas that the world will see for the first time. So this will be a very noisy World Cup, of song and dance and celebration.
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GERHARD PATZER, GENERAL MANAGER, HILTON HOTEL, DURBAN
When it comes to organisational things, being a German myself. Probably Germany would take a bit of beating. But it will have a different flavour, it will have a flavour of Africa.
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DR MICHAEL SUTCLIFFE, CITY MANAGER: ETHEKWINI (DURBAN) MUNICIPALITY
In the last couple of World Cups it was 'ordered excitement', if I could say it. Here it will be 'uninhibited excitement'.
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MATO MADLALA, OWNER: LAMONTVILLE GOLDEN ARROWS
We were made to believe that Germans are not friendly. The history books we read were about Hitler and things like that. It's only when you get there that you understand that, no, it's not like that, and we are hoping that South Africa will also be a country of choice. When people think holiday, they'll think South Africa.
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DR MICHAEL SUTCLIFFE, CITY MANAGER: ETHEKWINI (DURBAN) MUNICIPALITY
So what are we going to have that's going to be different? Remember the last time there was a World Cup in Latin America, which probably is a bit similar to us in the sense of fans that have a real difference. When you hear the sound of vuvuzelas, you see people's experience, it's the safest place, the friendliest place on earth, but the absolute die hard fans who express it through their, their fashion, the clothes they wear, the way they behave, the, the excitement they have.
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PETER AUF DER HEYDE, INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL JOURNALIST
Sepp Blatter's legacy, that is - what he's working on is Africa. He wants people in 100 years probably to talk about what did Blatter bring to world football? And what he wants is Africa
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ZAPIRO: CARTOONIST
Sepp Blatter, in a sense, he basically promised, he said I, I'll make sure. They owed us, and they knew it too. So I did a cartoon just before the announcement was made and, "The 2010 host country is" and there's Sepp Blatter, Sepp Blatter is God.
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MIKE NYARENDA, MALAWIAN TRADER
It means a lot for South Africa and the rest of Africa because this is one event that's never happened on the African soil. So I strongly believe that having it here in South Africa means a lot, not only to South Africans but to the rest of other Africans such as ourselves, us traders here. That's what I believe in.
Commentary of football match, cheering etc
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TEKO MODISE, BAFANA BAFANA MIDFIELDER
For the country, it's gonna, it's gonna be exciting, you know, people are gonna be excited to see, especially the young ones to see their overseas heroes coming here to play on our home soil. So it's gonna be great, all country will be able to, behind the Bafana Bafana, and for me as a player it's gonna give me an opportunity to shine.
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ARCHBISHOP EMERITUS DESMOND TUTU, NOBEL LAUREATE
I think it's going to do us the world of good and I, I would say it's well worth the price.
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SIYABONGA NUATHI, BRICKLAYER
Right now there are opportunities, some opportunities, like building, like stadiums, but right now I haven't got a job from it. But I think, soon I'll get a job like building a stadium, and I'll be happy to do it.
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The act of playing for the team makes every individual stronger
- ARSENE WENGER
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THE FIELDS OF DREAMS
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HANS KLAUS, FIFA DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS
They will be wonderful stadiums, I think the world has never seen stadiums like this, we will have here in South Africa, for the World Cup, they are amazing.
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MIKE COOPER - NARRATOR:
The flagship will be Soccer City, a 95,000-seater venue close to Soweto on the outskirts of Johannesburg. The stadium, which was the venue for South Africa's triumph in the African Nations Cup in 1996, has undergone a major overhaul to transform it into one of the world's most modern sports arenas. The tournament will open at Soccer City on 11 June 2010 and the final will be played here four weeks later.
Durban and Cape Town have chosen to meet FIFA's requirement that the stadia at which the semi-finals are to be played have a capacity of 70,000. The two municipalities have chosen not to renovate existing facilities in those cities but have commissioned the building of new stadia.
In Port Elizabeth the 48,000 capacity Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium has been built from scratch. Two other new stadia, each with a capacity of 46,000 are being built near remote Nelspruit and in the agricultural town of Polokwane. Four world cup matches will be played in each of those venues over a 12 day period.
Four of South Africa's established stadia, Ellis Park in Central Johannesburg, Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria, the Free State Stadium in Bloemfontein and the Royal Bafokeng Stadium in Rustenburg, have undergone minor refurbishment. They will stage 25 World Cup matches between them.
FIFA declared the Confederations Cup, staged in South Africa in June 2009, to be a success. Every one of those matches was played in stadia that were in existence before South Africa won the bid to host the World Cup
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I am carried away hopelessly by the excitement of a soccer match
- ALBERT LUTHULI
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LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION
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DR ASHWIN DESAI, SOCIOLOGIST
To the credit of the ANC-led council at the time, they wanted to build a stadium near Athlone, which is in the historical coloured area near the Cape Flats, and basically FIFA said "We can't have stadiums near shacks. We can't show the world this kind of poverty". These are in the actual documents of FIFA. And this was then supported by the South African government, that the stadium will be near Green Point and will be hidden away from the degradation and indignities that people suffer every day, on the Cape Flats.
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CLAIF KATSCHE, TELECOMMUNICATIONS OPERATIONS MANAGER
I think there was a lot of politics involved. I think about the supporters, they want to be near the soccer and Green Point is just your rich people, it's your white people, the majority of the supporters is black and coloureds. If the soccer stadium would have been here in Athlone, it would have been nice for the people of Cape Town.
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DANNY JORDAAN, CEO SA 2010 LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE
But if you only have people who can pay 20 rand and 50 rand, you can't have a viable stadium.
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EDDIE COTTLE, CO-ORDINATOR, CAMPAIGN FOR DECENT WORK 2010 AND BEYOND
I think in the long term for soccer developments in Africa Athlone would have been preferred but of course if you look into the context of costs it would have been obviously cheaper to have had it in Newlands.
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DANNY JORDAAN, CEO SA 2010 LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE
If we increase the capacity of Newlands to 70,000, what would be the demand on the transport into and out of the stadium. If you look at those roads it's just impossible.
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MARTIN WELZ, EDITOR: NOSEWEEK
Clearly, the argument in Cape Town would be transparently absurd because the existing stadium is on a railway line, on at least two main roads, a famously scenic site, and at minimal cost they could expand the seating to, I believe 64, 65,000. They were really, a question of 5 or 6,000 short. I don't know at what stage the TV screen picks up the difference between 64,000 and 70,000. That is obvious nonsense. One suspects that it had been calculated to exclude available facilities, to actually force the issue of new facilities.
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EDDIE COTTLE, CO-ORDINATOR, CAMPAIGN FOR DECENT WORK 2010 AND BEYOND
Clearly I think it is an over-expense for the city of Cape Town, who in turn is going to have to get money back from the ratepayers.
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DR ASHWIN DESAI, SOCIOLOGIST
They have Newlands, once again a historic ground but that was rejected. Ostensibly originally because you wanted to take the stadiums near the townships and the language used by the government was that people who want to use Newlands didn't want to have a stadium that would benefit the poorer people of Cape Town. But in typical South African fashion an argument is then made for having Green Point, so in South Africa you can argue these things two or three ways, by the same person, I mean, George Orwell lives.
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My idea of paradise is a straight line to goal
- FRIEDRICH NIETZSHE
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TO RENOVATE OR NOT TO RENOVATE
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DR MICHAEL SUTCLIFFE, CITY MANAGER: ETHEKWINI (DURBAN) MUNICIPALITY
Well originally, in the original bid book, Durban was going to renovate its existing stadium. The Sharks who, they lease the land from us, but they own the stadium, they said, "Oh it'll cost 38 million rand to upgrade the stadium to be at FIFA standards. Obviously, because the city was going to pick up that tab, we then started commissioning people and the figure very quickly moved from 38 million rand to about 700 million rand, at that stage. This was remember about 4 to 5 years ago. And as the figure started to rise it became more economically viable to actually build a new stadium.
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DR ASHWIN DESAI, SOCIOLOGIST
It's a joke really, you know, in fact these things almost take Monty Python-esque forms. So in Durban, for example, you have a big rugby stadium that can seat about 50,000 people, it's been used for a semi-final in a World Cup for rugby, the City Fathers, provincial government, national government, decide to build a stadium right opposite the Kings Park Stadium. So, one stadium's going to become obsolete, which would be Kings Park Stadium.
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EDDIE COTTLE, CO-ORDINATOR, CAMPAIGN FOR DECENT WORK 2010 AND BEYOND
I think in terms of development objectives, it clearly does not make sense to build a new stadium at such huge cost, especially in the province where there's historically deep inequalities.
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ANDREW RADEMA, DURBAN STADIUM WORKER
We built it this one. It's the nice one, this stadium. They told us if you are going to marry you can come and marry inside the stadium.
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DR MICHAEL SUTCLIFFE, CITY MANAGER: ETHEKWINI (DURBAN) MUNICIPALITY
So it's a stadium that, from an economic point of view needs to be about 54,000 seats and that's what it will be. For the World Cup we'll increase that to 70,000 seats. If we get the, an Olympics, we can increase it to about 85 to 90,000 seats.
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KING'S PARK HAS A CAPACITY OF 55,000
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So we've designed it bearing in mind that when we do win the Olympics, and we will win it, we in fact are able to be the best choice for Africa. Slowly, people are understanding it. You know, people are sceptics but I think they've begun to understand as we've shown them what vision we have.
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MIKE COOPER - NARRATOR:
Dennis Brutus was imprisoned on Robin Island, alongside Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu, in the 1960s. Following his release, he was instrumental in having South Africa expelled from the Olympic Movement.
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PROFESSOR DENNIS BRUTUS, ANTI-APARTHEID ACTIVIST
So what it means is you're spending millions or even billions on 2010 and while you're doing that, to justify it you're saying "Well, the structures we create for 2010 will then be useful, at some future time to the Olympics", but it must be understood very clearly that the commitment in terms of resources to the Olympics will be even greater than the commitment of resources to 2010, and if people discover that 2010, you know, was a dog that wasn't going to hunt, as they say in America, they'll say, "Why should we do it a second time?"
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CT: What will become of that old stadium?
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DR MICHAEL SUTCLIFFE, CITY MANAGER: ETHEKWINI (DURBAN) MUNICIPALITY
Well, that's a discussion we'll still have with Sharks. The first decision they've got to make is when they come over. It's really an old stadium and, at some point it would have to be demolished.
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Each succeeds in reaching the goal by a different method
- NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI
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MBOMBELA BLUES
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MIKE COOPER - NARRATOR:
The Mbombela municipality sought to secure its place in the World Cup by building a new stadium which will host four matches over a period of 10 days in June 2010. They reason that this will promote tourism in the region during and beyond the tournament. The stadium is being built at a site adjacent to the Mataffin location where a poor local community faces an uncertain future. Residents understand that they will be evicted ahead of the tournament but do not know where they'll go. Their sense that all is not well has been fuelled by allegations of corruption surrounding aspects of the stadium project and the report that the land on which the stadium is being built was sold for R1.00 - a dime. Students used to attend school in buildings next to what has become the stadium construction site. In 2006 the students were evicted from those premises to make way for the construction company which now uses the buildings as its offices. The students have been moved into temporary pre-fabricated steel classrooms on a nearby site which is to have a road running through it. As at December 2008, when interviews were conducted with affected parties, no plans had been devised to accommodate the students in alternative and permanent facilities. The only certainty is that they will not be returning to their old school. Those buildings are to be demolished to make way for a stadium parking lot.
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DR DALE T. MCKINLEY, POLITICAL COMMENTATOR AND ACTIVIST
In Mbombela up in Mpumalanga, the story that has gone on and on about how money has been spread around and corruption has been rife, local and other politicians have gotten their little slice of the pie. It's the ones that already have and those that want to get their fingers in the honey pot that have benefited tremendously. It's a world that is full of greed, full of self-interest and self-promotion.
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ANC whistle blower Jimmy Mohlala, Speaker of the Mbombela Local Municipality in Nelspruit, was gunned down at his home on 4 January, 2009. He had been instrumental in exposing tender irregularities in the R1 - Mbombela 2010 World Cup stadium
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NOMCEBO CLAUDIA QWABE, ANC OFFICE BEARER - MPUMALANGA
When the project was initiated, there were problems, there was a board of trustees that was set up for the Mataffin Trust, and they had to work on the agreements between the municipality in terms of the land and then the stadium was to be built, but I think there was no proper explanation as to the notorious R1.00 deal, so the concern now from the community now is that the stadium is almost done, and they don't see anything as far as the school's building is concerned, and I think that is what is creating a lot of discord from the school children, and the parents themselves, fearing that if the project completes then everybody will forget about them and their schools.
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LASSY CHIWAYO, MBOMBELA MUNICIPAL MAYOR
It's one of the thorny issues, I must be honest. The last time we engaged with the Department of Education and Public Works, and from the municipality's side it would be in our interest that those learners are accommodated and that there's clarity on the issue.
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MMATHULARE COLEMAN, MEC: MPUMALANGA EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
We were told that the land that they provided to us, that they are going to be building a ring road along that road.
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LASSY CHIWAYO, MBOMBELA MUNICIPAL MAYOR
I don't understand, you know, why there would be schools built, money spent close to sixty million, and in the process, you know, there's discovery that the schools are built on the site where the road would have to be constructed.
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BONGANI DLAMINI, MBOMBELA STADIUM CONSTRUCTION WORKER
They think maybe with us here in Mpumalanga we are fools. They point fingers, somebody point to the other, somebody point to the other, they don't come to the truth.
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NICHOLUS HLANYA, CHAIRPERSON, CYRIL CLARKE LEARNERS REPRESENTATIVE COUNCIL
Before we were moved it was a proper school built with blocks. The air conditioning was normal like other schools. Then we have to move. In our class we are about 66. There is no oxygen that is coming in or out. Because it's too much hot, you can't learn.
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BONGANI DLAMINI, MBOMBELA STADIUM CONSTRUCTION WORKER
The heat, I think it's killing the children. What they are doing, it's racist against people who are black like us. I think that thing is about race, because if these people were white, they were supposed to be built a school long time before this project come here.
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NICHOLUS HLANYA, CHAIRPERSON, CYRIL CLARKE LEARNERS REPRESENTATIVE COUNCIL
On that day they were throwing teargas and stuff.
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BONGANI DLAMINI, MBOMBELA STADIUM CONSTRUCTION WORKER
When I was at the top there and then I have seen the burning classrooms there and the office of the principal was burned there.
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NOMCEBO CLAUDIA QWABE, ANC OFFICE BEARER - MPUMALANGA
One morning then there was a blockade, nobody would be able to go out. There's unfortunately only one entrance to that community. So these school kids were there with a few parents as well, as early as 4 o'clock in the morning, so when we came through we could see, you know, there was a heavy presence of police as well.
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TITLE ON BLACK SCREEN
They put plastic bags on our heads so that we couldn't see them and handcuffs behind our backs, so that they could beat us.
NICHOLUS HLANYA, CHAIRPERSON, CYRIL CLARKE LEARNERS REPRESENTATIVE COUNCIL
The students burnt down the school on that day. At the police station they beat us to tell the truth the day they arrested me. We were put in a small room, the five of us.
They put plastics on our heads so that we couldn't see them and handcuffs behind our backs, so that they could beat us.
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LOSITHO DLAMINI, ROADCRETE'S MATAFFIN COMMUNITY LIAISON OFFICER
The kids by so doing, I think they were trying to show us their anger, you see.
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NICHOLUS HLANYA, CHAIRPERSON, CYRIL CLARKE LEARNERS REPRESENTATIVE COUNCIL
I've been hearing rumours that they are moving us ... to somewhere, I don't know where they are going to move us.
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JAMES MASEKO, UNION ORGANISER AND MATAFFIN WARD MEMBER
It seems embarrassing to the municipality. They don't want to see a shack around the stadium. We are not going to move anywhere because our ancestors lived here and they've died here, so we are not going to go anywhere.
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NICHOLUS HLANYA, CHAIRPERSON, CYRIL CLARKE LEARNERS REPRESENTATIVE COUNCIL
They are losing their places and us our education. This stadium has been hurting me a lot because now I am having a criminal record. Next year I will be doing matric and I won't be able to apply for bursaries and stuff ... because of this stadium.
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ANTHONY BENADIE, MPUMALANGA PROVINCIAL OPPOSITION LEADER
I am still not convinced that the stadium in Mbombela was very well thought through. There is currently no contingency plan saying what's actually going to happen to this stadium once the World Cup is gone. Nobody's talking about it, nobody's doing any planning about it and in the end of the day, one can only think that the stadium's going to stand redundant and empty afterwards.
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MMATHULARE COLEMAN, MEC: MPUMALANGA EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
We want it to be utilised so that it doesn't become, you know, an area that is not used.
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CT: Well, there's a term used, a white elephant--
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MMATHULARE COLEMAN, MEC: MPUMALANGA EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
I didn't - I was avoiding that.
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They rule us with guns and machines on a man to man basis, on the field of football we can show them who is really superior
- FERHAT ABBAS
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WHITE ELEPHANTS
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DR ASHWIN DESAI, SOCIOLOGIST
In a country of 300 years of racial oppression, stigmatisation, stereotyping, sense of inferiority, suddenly the world is coming to your doorstep. Suddenly the world sees you as important. You don't think about the broader circumstance, how much it's costing, just think about yourself as somebody validated as a South African, and as an African.
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DANNY JORDAAN, CEO SA 2010 LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Soccer City Stadium is by far the biggest, bigger than Yokohama Stadium, 70,000, bigger than Stade de France, 80,000, bigger than the Berlin Olympic Stadium, 80,000, this is a 94,000-seater stadium.
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MARTIN WELZ, EDITOR: NOSEWEEK
You can show yourself to the world as, you know, equal to everybody. You can build as big a stadium as Germany can build, you know, it's the Texas syndrome and, it's a bit pathetic really, both in terms of the victim of that and the perpetrator, to have exploited it.
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DR ASHWIN DESAI, SOCIOLOGIST
We're really going to see, post the World Cup, when it becomes very obvious that these stadiums are going to be empty shells, that our money has been used for what is really a pyramid scheme.
01:27:03:11
01:27:20:21
PETER AUF DER HEYDE, INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL JOURNALIST
You'll have one or two football games a season, maybe when Chiefs play Pirates in the final of something, but I mean, at the moment we're not even filling our stadiums regularly for Bafana games, you know, and those aren't even 90,000 seaters. But, you know, that's not FIFA's problem and they're not particularly interested in that either.
01:27:20:22
01:27:26:23
MARTIN WELZ, EDITOR: NOSEWEEK
The sinfulness of what we have done now is excruciating in terms of the misappropriation of resources.
01:27:26:24
01:27:47:03
PROFESSOR DENNIS BRUTUS, ANTI-APARTHEID ACTIVIST
When you build these enormous stadia, you're shifting those resources, particularly cement from building schools or hospitals, and then you have these huge structures standing empty and being used to a very limited extent, they become "white elephants".
01:27:47:04
01:28:21:15
DANNY JORDAAN, CEO SA 2010 LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE
If we are building universities, why should we not build major international stadiums? The problem with the youth is lack of opportunity. We must get them into sport. As they say, a child in sport is a child out of court. They must sit in FNB stadium with a parent and say, "You know, one day I want to play on this ground. I want to play against Brazil here". Those are things that, that kids dream about. They don't dream to go to hospital.
01:28:21:24
01:28:29:00
Some people think football is a matter of life and death ... I can assure them it is much more serious than that
- BILL SHANKLY
01:28:31:04
01:28:36:23
WHO BENEFITS?
01:28:36:24
01:28:40:19
DR ASHWIN DESAI, SOCIOLOGIST
It's an incredible benefit to FIFA, I mean that's quite transparent, just simply because FIFA has a formula in which it operates by, I mean the television rights are its main source of income.
01:28:40:20
01:28:53:16
FIFA expects to earn R25 billion for the television rights for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. That figure will exceed FIFA's income from the TV rights for the 2002 and 2006 World Cups combined
01:28:50:16
01:29:26:13
DR ASHWIN DESAI, SOCIOLOGIST
So that's already been signed up, and that goes back to FIFA coffers. And it is able to then sell off space in the stadium for products, there's a monopoly that operates. So, for example, if Budweiser gets the contract for beer, you can only drink a Budweiser in the stadium; McDonalds. So they have these relationships with big capital, big transnationals, and so FIFA is well looked after. The space inside the stadium and just around the stadium is basically FIFA's. It's almost like, they're little Vaticans, they have a sort of diplomatic immunity and they can operate like that.
01:29:26:14
01:29:35:19
HANS KLAUS, FIFA DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS
But it's very clear that FIFA has its obligations towards our sponsors and our partners and of course they have a right to be there.
01:29:35:20
01:30:11:07
DR ASHWIN DESAI, SOCIOLOGIST
The challenge is for the country that hosts it, because if the bulk of the money has already been taken out of the country, they don't benefit from those television rights. They have to look for longer term benefits and one of the ways that is justified, well there's two ways that it's justified normally, one is that the infrastructural development starts to create jobs and secondly, by hosting a successful world cup you put yourself on the world map for tourism and other forms of investment. These are the twin legs on which it stands but it's much more contingent, it's much more ephemeral, it's much more neither here nor there than FIFA's , FIFA's already got its money.
01:30:11:08
01:30:27:04
DR MICHAEL SUTCLIFFE, CITY MANAGER: ETHEKWINI (DURBAN) MUNICIPALITY
Africa is marketed today through war, through famine, through dictators, and the like. That's what the majority of news says about us. Now people will say, "Well remember that thing that we had in Africa". From the marketing point of view it is very big.
01:30:27:05
01:30:43:08
DR DALE T. MCKINLEY, POLITICAL COMMENTATOR AND ACTIVIST
My sense is that the approach, not just to this World Cup, but I think it's a universal approach, is one of appearance and perception, where stadia and what the world sees on the screen become much more important than what's actually going on behind the scenes.
01:30:43:09
01:30:57:04
DR ASHWIN DESAI, SOCIOLOGIST
People ask me often, you know, why build these stadiums? Isn't it stupid? Of course, in building these stadiums it is the most transparent way you can understand the synergy between the new black elite and old white capital.
01:30:57:05
01:31:14:06
THABANG MAGETA, SOWETO BUSINESSMAN
It's a very, very, very, very, great achievement. The only thing I would like to see happen is that all this should try and filter down to the small businessman. It shouldn't be kept at the top there, where all the big guys are going to grab everything for themselves and not look at the small business community.
01:31:14:07
01:31:29:19
DR ASHWIN DESAI, SOCIOLOGIST
And so you'll see old white firms like Group 5, linking up with new black empowerment firms and so the names that come up in the building of the stadiums will be Bulelani Ngcuka, Tokyo Sexwale... the new black billionaires on the block.
01:31:30:00
01:31:35:13
DR ASHWIN DESAI, SOCIOLOGIST
Our health care system is in a complete shambles. Life expectancy has tumbled down.
01:31:39:24
01:31:50:10
World average life expectancy is 67.2 years. Life expectancy in South Africa is 49.3 years. It ranks behind 32 African countries, including Ethiopia, Uganda, Burundi and Sudan
01:31:50:11
01:32:08:04
DR ASHWIN DESAI, SOCIOLOGIST
Money that would go for your basic infrastructure like housing, public health, education, even sports fields in the old apartheid townships, will be siphoned off into these mega developments, and so you're based on a sort of trickled down understanding of the economy, which has been shown to be in complete disrepute.
01:32:08:05
01:32:23:13
JOHN MAKGOKA, ANC YOUTH LEAGUE OFFICE BEARER, ALEXANDRA TOWNSHIP
Finally, as the continent Africa, the world has indicated to us that we have the potential of hosting this big event and to us, this should be a platform to exhibit what we think that belongs to us.
01:32:23:14
01:33:02:22
PROFESSOR PATRICK BOND, POLITICAL ECONOMIST, UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL
But I think that what national pride can generate in this is a somewhat dangerous distraction from the real issues of the day and if politicians are going to say "Look, we've hosted a big World Cup and let's just brush aside these problems of worsening inequality, deep poverty, the unemployment rate now increasing, as the economy goes south". I mean these are the sorts of things that they'll need, you know, kind of a bread and circus instead of really coming to grips with the problems in the society. And in that sense, it's the worst kind of nationalism, it's a self-delusional false consciousness in which people think, "Well we must feel good about being South African because we're hosting the World Cup".
01:33:02:23
01:33:27:06
DR DALE T. MCKINLEY, POLITICAL COMMENTATOR AND ACTIVIST
With the amount of money that is being expended on those stadia, on transport to get there, on airports, on the whole range of things that will cater for foreign tourists as well as those than can afford to see the World Cup and enjoy it, it's not going to benefit the majority of the people, I think these kinds of grand events are preying oftentimes on people's desperation that somehow they are going to benefit and that they will, something will get better.
01:33:27:07
01:33:56:11
EDDIE COTTLE, CO-ORDINATOR, CAMPAIGN FOR DECENT WORK 2010 AND BEYOND
Of the 2010 stadiums we have 22,000 jobs created, but most of these jobs are short-term jobs where workers are employed by subcontractors or labour brokers for 3 months' duration. So there's no sustainable employment, this is just short-term employment for construction workers at lower wages, and in turn ensures huge profits for construction companies making an average 218% for the 2007 financial year.
01:33:57:00
01:34:08:21
PROFESSOR DENNIS BRUTUS, ANTI-APARTHEID ACTIVIST
Certainly we enjoy sport, and we would love to have more sport, but we don't want sport sold to us on the basis of a deception, of promises that are not going to be fulfilled.
01:34:09:00
01:34:24:20
DR DALE T. MCKINLEY, POLITICAL COMMENTATOR AND ACTIVIST
There's not much to look forward to for most people right now. And an event like this is something that can excite them, and not just for the sporting aspect, but for maybe their socioeconomic status. I think it's a hollow promise personally, but I do understand it.
01:34:25:09
01:34:31:21
It's not just a simple game. It is a weapon of the revolution
- CHE GUEVARA
01:34:33:20
01:34:40:00
IS CRIME REALLY AN ISSUE?
01:34:40:13
01:34:54:00
MIKE COOPER - NARRATOR
Features of South Africa's suburban landscape are high walls, electric fences, signs attesting to the voltage in use, and private security personnel standing guard at automated gates.
01:34:54:01
01:35:06:08
ARCHBISHOP EMERITUS DESMOND TUTU, NOBEL LAUREATE
We are not feeling secure. Now it's not good when we have to keep, as it were, looking over your shoulder. We're living in virtual prisons in our homes.
01:35:06:09
MIKE COOPER - NARRATOR
It is conceivable that the volume of bricks and mortar used to erect the boundary walls that fortify these homes would be sufficient to have built the dwellings needed to resolve the country's housing shortage. Despite the lengths to which South Africans go to secure themselves and their property, a regular refrain is that all countries have crime. There is, of course, substance to that assertion, but it cannot diminish the extent of the South African problem. There are fewer murders each year in the United States, with a population more than six times the size of South Africa's.
01:35:39:07
Murders per annum in a sample of South Africa's trading partners:
Belgium 155
Netherlands 157
Australia 301
Canada 523
Japan 637
Italy 644
Germany 914
UK 1,201
USA 16,929
South Africa 18,487
01:35:54:16
01:36:03:17
MIKE COOPER - NARRATOR
The 2010 organisers acknowledge that crime is a real issue in South Africa, but dispute that it will have a bearing on the event itself.
01:36:03:18
01:36:19:13
SEN SUP VISHNU NAIDOO, SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE NATIONAL SPOKESPERSON
Lots of people visiting South Africa are of this opinion that crime is out of control in South Africa and what we have to do is to try and curb the perception that crime is out of control and to put crime and criminal activities in the context in which it is happening.
01:36:19:14
01:36:35:07
DR MICHAEL SUTCLIFFE, CITY MANAGER: ETHEKWINI (DURBAN) MUNICIPALITY
It's not something that I am proud of, but certainly when you look at murders in our country, that rate is huge. But it is between people who often know each other. Some of it might be linked to poverty, but I would think that a lot of it is not as a result of poverty.
01:36:35:08
01:36:48:21
SIYABONGA NUATHI, BRICKLAYER
Yeah, you can do anything if you are hungry. Yeah if you are starving you can even kill a person. Yeah, and you get some money and you get life, like.
01:36:48:22
01:36:58:21
DR MICHAEL SUTCLIFFE, CITY MANAGER: ETHEKWINI (DURBAN) MUNICIPALITY
But it's not an African thing. You know, Zimbabwe today, the levels of crime, the levels of violence .... are below South Africa. And we'll get there.
01:36:58:22
01:37:26:10
SEN SUP VISHNU NAIDOO, SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE NATIONAL SPOKESPERSON
The routes will be policed, to the accommodation to the venues, to the tourist destinations so I don't think that we have to concern ourselves too much with our tourists having to take any risks. However, having said that, they should be vigilant, should I say, in all aspects, whether it's vigilance towards the possibility of being hijacked or property being stolen from them. But it's not to an extent where they should be paranoid.
01:37:26:11
01:37:29:17
MARTIN WELZ, EDITOR: NOSEWEEK
You're not actually stepping over corpses on the pavement.
01:37:29:18
01:37:47:14
DANNY JORDAAN, CEO SA 2010 LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE
When you host an event like the World Cup, you have all the information and it's information that provides the basis for safeguarding people. If I have all the information of all your movements, I can give you the guarantee that you will be one hundred per cent safe.
01:37:47:15
01:37:54:15
MARTIN WELZ, EDITOR: NOSEWEEK
I'm not saying that the odd tourist won't cop it, but the point is, anywhere in the world the odd tourist is going to cop it.
01:37:54:16
01:38:20:22
DR ASHWIN DESAI, SOCIOLOGIST
Well I mean one of the things that South Africa did in the bid itself was to emphasise this wasn't South Africa's World Cup, it was Africa's turn, but this has already started to ring hollow, and nothing makes it ring more hollow than the recent, you know, xenophobic attacks, where African immigrants were picked upon, killed, slaughtered in the streets, so even Somali s were begging to go back to Somalia; that the Home Affairs, the police, have all been geared to display a virulent xenophobia.
01:38:20:23
01:38:36:18
LISON NYARENDA, ZAMBIAN TRADER
Since I came to South Africa, I never stayed in the location, I just stay here in the city centre. For me it's better than staying in the location because they're treating us very bad and then they say we are taking their jobs but we don't take their jobs. We are selling art. We are selling art.
01:38:36:19
01:39:12:20
PROFESSOR DENNIS BRUTUS, ANTI-APARTHEID ACTIVIST
The desperation experienced by a segment of the South African population is actually now being seen as caused by these interlopers, strangers, foreigners coming from other parts of Africa, and the claim is we are losing homes, we are losing opportunities. So it's not wrong to describe it as xenophobia, in the sense that there is this hostility to foreigners, but it seems to me the real anger and the real resentment is more about desperation.
01:39:12:23
01:39:38:21
JOHN MAKGOKA, ANC YOUTH LEAGUE OFFICE BEARER, ALEXANDRA TOWNSHIP
In the world, entirely, there is no country which does not have crime. But South Africa is one of the most safest countries, I can assure you. And whoever comes up with crime we are going as the community, as South Africans, to fight those people, and we have seen it happening in the past four weeks - eight criminals were killed in scenes of crime. As South Africans we are working very hard to eradicate crime and when they come here South Africa will be a sweet home.
01:39:38:22
01:39:50:02
ARCHBISHOP EMERITUS DESMOND TUTU, NOBEL LAUREATE
One hopes, I mean that our police are going to be up to dealing with, with crime, that it's going to be safe.
01:39:50:09
01:40:13:21
SEN SUP VISHNU NAIDOO, SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE NATIONAL SPOKESPERSON
We have purchased some fantastic toys. We hope that we will be able to use, come 2010 because we don't want to have to spend so many millions of rands and not be able to use it. We've purchased water canons, body armour for crowd control and crowd management, surveillance equipment to feed us on the ground with information so that we can be pro-active in the event something does come up as far as hooliganism is concerned.
01:40:13:22
01:40:15:05
CT: Who do you think is going to win the World Cup?
01:40:15:06
01:40:18:05
SEN SUP VISHNU NAIDOO, SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE NATIONAL SPOKESPERSON
Bafana, Bafana.
01:40:18:06
01:40:27:21
I am patriotic about South Africa but I am also a realist. I've seen the boys play. No-one is happy with Bafana Bafana - apart from their opponents
- MAKHENKESI STOFILE, SPORT AND RECREATION MINISTER
01:40:29:19
01:40:33:21
COULD BAFANA BAFANA WIN IT?
MUSIC
01:40:33:22
01:41:54:10
MIKE COOPER - NARRATOR:
After returning to the international fold, following apartheid's demise, South Africa's national team, Bafana Bafana, became African champions in 1996 and by August of that year had climbed to their highest ever position in FIFA's rankings - 16th in the world. When the first interviews for this film were conducted, in November 2008, Bafana Bafana were ranked 80th in FIFA's world rankings. By 1 July 2009, following the Confederations Cup, they had moved to 70th place. Were South Africa not hosting the 2010 World Cup, its national team would not be taking to the field. Bafana Bafana were knocked out of the second African qualifying round for the World Cup in October 2008. A source of concern is that an early exit by Bafana Bafana in 2010 will leave the tournament deprived of the energy and excitement of local fans and lacking that X factor which made the last tournament in Germany such a success. Despite the team's declining fortunes, people on the streets of South Africa remain undaunted and optimistic about the chances of their team. In that spirit, we asked Danny Jordaan who Bafana Bafana would beat in the final?
01:41:54:11
01:42:06:04
DANNY JORDAAN, CEO SA 2010 LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE
No, I think we must be realistic. I think our team needs to, to work hard.
01:42:06:04
01:42:15:19
01:42:46:20
1996 Winner
1998 Second Place
2000 Semi-finalist
2002 Quarter-finalist
2004 Knocked out first round
2006 Knocked out first round
2008 Did not qualify]
PETER AUF DER HEYDE, INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL JOURNALIST
You had the 1996 African Cup of Nations here and the whole country was just sort of swept along and we peaked too soon, you know, we immediately were at the top, we won, and since then it's just gone downhill, you know, I mean, two years later, we, we lost in the final, still good. Two years later, we were in the semi-finals, I think we finished third, the next Nations Cup we went down, we went out, I think in the quarter finals, we lost twice then in the first round, the last time without scoring. And this year we didn't even qualify. I mean, if you think about it, our football budget is probably as, as big as the GDP of some of the countries that we're playing against. And, and we can't even qualify.
01:42:46:21
01:42:58:13
JOMO SONO, CEO JOMO COSMOS FC
If I look at the current squad, vis a vis the squad that beat Argentina 5 - 1, I can tell you now, with half a leg these players wouldn't match those players still in that time, and that's a fact.
01:42:58:14
01:43:04:09
ANDREW RADEMA, DURBAN STADIUM WORKER
I think Bafana Bafana is doing very well. I think Bafana Bafana is going to win the World Cup.
01:43:04:10
01:43:17:01
JOHN MAKGOKA, ANC YOUTH LEAGUE OFFICE BEARER, ALEXANDRA TOWNSHIP
I am patriot South African. I will never say South Africa will not win the World Cup. I still have hope. In actual fact we are like a snake, you must not come to our own hole and think that you'll go away with it.
01:43:17:02
01:43:36:03
PETER AUF DER HEYDE, INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL JOURNALIST
It's, I mean, it would be so nice that I could sit here and say an African team. Well, first prize obviously would be if I could say South Africa, but I mean, FIFA would have to do so much rigging that not even they make that, I think, possible, that South Africa can be in the final four.
01:43:36:04
01:43:43:17
HANS KLAUS, FIFA DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS
Oh, as a FIFA representative I am not allowed to say that, I have to be neutral, which is an easy thing for me because I'm a Swiss.
01:43:43:18
01:43:58:07
LISON NYARENDA, ZAMBIAN TRADER
2010 I will be supporting Bafana Bafana, because I am staying here in South Africa, I can't support another team where I'm not staying there, but I will be supporting Bafana Bafana. I wish them lucky during the finals.
01:43:58:11
01:44:04:22
In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team
- SARTRE
01:44:08:04
01:44:12:01
A SECRET WEAPON
01:44:12:06
01:44:27:17
MIKE COOPER - NARRATOR:
On a misty Saturday afternoon in December 2008, we travelled to Swayimana in KwaZulu Natal Midlands to have an audience with revered Sangoma and Nyanga, Zondeni Gabuza.
01:44:27:18
01:44:36:01
Nyangas and Sangomas are traditional healers. An Nyanga specialises in plant and animal-based remedies. A Sangoma is a spiritual medium who receives guidance from the ancestors
01:44:36:02
01:44:45:18
MR GABUZA
[African language] I am showing you the secret now. This is my secret. This muti brings luck for goals.
01:44:45:19
01:44:59:22
JOMO SONO, CEO JOMO COSMOS FC
It's a psychological thing and you cannot, you cannot, undermine it. Because, as a coach, you want the best for your players, you want your players to give you 100 per cent and if that is going to give you 100 per cent, so be it, it is not poison.
01:45:00:11
01:45:14:22
MR GABUZA
[African language] In 1982 I started a soccer team. We used to mix both the coaching and the muti as well. The muti was part of it.
01:45:14:23
01:45:23:00
SIPHO NKUMANE, BAFANA BAFANA MANAGER
I'm made to believe around the clubs, yes, that it is very rife. But in the national team it's difficult.
01:45:23:01
01:45:50:08
MR GABUZA
[African language] When the goalkeeper applies this to his face the strikers from the opposite side, they won't be able to see his goals. Yes, soccer medicine makes luck. When the strikers have applied it to their boots, their shots on their opponent's goal are always accurate.
01:45:50:09
01:45:59:02
JOMO SONO, CEO JOMO COSMOS FC
Bring eleven witch doctors. If you leave the ball in the centre of the pitch and say to the witch doctor "Your muti must score", that ball won't move.
01:45:59:03
01:46:04:00
Would Bafana Bafana win the World Cup if they used Mr Gabuza's secret weapon?
01:46:04:01
01:46:17:14
MR GABUZA
[African language] Yes, my medicine is guaranteed. We can even guarantee the whole season and they can pay us afterwards.
01:46:17:15
01:46:25:12
DAVID POOLE, MPUMALANGA HERBALIST
As I say, I'm just a herbalist, although I have certain herbs to enhance a sportsman. I don't have any of the herbs to make them win though.
01:46:25:13
01:46:29:23
STREET VENDOR - SOWETO
This one, he say it's alright, you can run the whole day. You never get tired.
01:46:29:24
01:46:37:21
MR GABUZA
The managers of the national team must come and talk to us Nyangas
01:46:37:22
01:46:50:20
SIPHO NKUMANE, BAFANA BAFANA MANAGER
If you still believe that now we need special assistance, and then there's Nyangas and Sangomas in this country, but I believe all of them will have to rally behind the team, wherever they are, when they are playing the match. They will have to put things together.
01:46:51:06
01:46:56:19
Football is the beautiful game
- PELE
01:47:01:00
01:47:04:05
A FINAL WORD
01:47:04:09
Unidentified voice:
Are you alright sir?
Unidentified male:
Very good.
01:47:06:13
01:47:07:24
Unidentified voice:
Who's going to win the World Cup?
01:47:08:00
01:47:08:23
Unidentified male:
Sorry.
01:47:08:24
01:47:10:04
Unidentified voice:
Who's going to win the World Cup?
01:47:10:05
01:47:11:21
Unidentified male:
World Cup?
01:47:11:22
01:47:13:07
Unidentified voice:
[African language] Which team?
01:47:14:08
01:47:16:05
Unidentified male:
[African language] I don't know. I don't know.
01:47:16:06
01:47:20:07
Unidentified voice:
[African language] Soccer. Which team is going to win in 2010 - World Cup?
01:47:21:04
01:47:23:24
Unidentified male:
[African language] South Africa must win.
01:47:24:18
01:47:28:01
Unidentified voice:
[African language] Tell them in the car.
01:47:28:02
01:47:36:08
Unidentified male:
[African language] No, it's the white man and I don't have my teeth.
[Laughter]
01:47:36:09
01:48:03:17
MARTIN WELZ, EDITOR: NOSEWEEK
I do still believe most profoundly that it was a really serious, serious mistake. There's certainly been no criticism of how it's done because there's, nobody's actually evaluated how it's being done. I mean, if anything we've been sold on the, on the architectural review pictures of, you know, these leaping arches and so on, which is a great thing to look at. We've been seduced by all, all of that without any ability to critically evaluate it.
01:48:03:18
01:48:21:00
ARCHBISHOP EMERITUS DESMOND TUTU, NOBEL LAUREATE
We are a fantastic bunch of people, when we give ourselves the chance. And I, I hope, I mean, that one of the most important spin-offs is going to be our recovering pride in ourselves, in our country.
01:48:21:01
01:48:40:21
JOHN MAKGOKA, ANC YOUTH LEAGUE OFFICE BEARER, ALEXANDRA TOWNSHIP
This is the First World Cup in Africa. Africa has many things to offer. You know I always say to the world that when you come to Africa you'll eat different food. We slaughter animals, cows and goats, and we don't throw away the intestines, we eat them. They must come to Africa and taste a taste of intestines.
01:48:40:22
01:48:53:22
HANS KLAUS, FIFA DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS
Of course there would have been easier places to organise somewhere in the world a World Cup. It's time now that football is coming to the African continent and I think this is, it's just time to give back something to the continent.
01:48:53:23
01:49:14:02
PETER AUF DER HEYDE, INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL JOURNALIST
FIFA is not particularly interested in what it means to the country. They want everybody to say how great FIFA is, how great South Africa is, what a wonderful host they are, and what happens at the end of it is really not of their concern. For the person living in a township, I don't think, unfortunately, the Football World Cup is going to have any benefit.
01:49:14:03
01:49:29:20
DR ASHWIN DESAI, SOCIOLOGIST
The tragedy is that public funds have been looted, for a moment in our history. People are still going to be living in shacks. The jobs are not sustainable. This is a blatant misuse of funds and a language and a message about what the World Cup brings that is a lie.
01:49:29:21
01:49:36:12
DANNY JORDAAN, CEO SA 2010 LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE
We are working hard to make that claim - that this is going to be the best World Cup ever - a reality.
01:49:36:13
01:49:41:02
HANS KLAUS, FIFA DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS
At the end it's, it's about football and the people want to see a nice and good tournament.
01:49:41:03
01:49:58:10
PROFESSOR DENNIS BRUTUS, ANTI-APARTHEID ACTIVIST
Well, it goes all the way back to the days of the Roman Empire, I guess, that talked about "bread and circuses". You can keep the masses happy just by keeping them busy and making sure they're fed. Unfortunately, here there isn't even bread.
01:49:58:11
01:50:14:18
ARCHBISHOP EMERITUS DESMOND TUTU, NOBEL LAUREATE
I would say, you know, with all of the many negative things that are taking place in Africa, this is a superb moment for us. If we are going to have white elephants, so be it.
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Written & Directed By
CRAIG TANNER
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Edited by
MICHAEL CROSS
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Filmed by
MARCELLO MAFFEIS
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Chapter Photgraphs by
OBIE OBERHOLZER
Graphic Design
DOMINIC STRAUSS
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Original Music Composed by
MADALA KUNENE
NUX SCHWARTZ
Produced by
MICHAEL CROSS and NUX SCHWARTZ
Engineered by
COLIN PEDDIE at Sonic Studios, Durban
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Narrated by
MIKE COOPER
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All interviews conducted by
CRAIG TANNER
in South Africa during November
and December, 2008
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"MONEY MAKER"
Composed by M. KUSE, F. MAHLANGU, M. SHEZI
Published by ZIYAWAMO
Performed by SMALLZ and D.J. SOX
Recording used courtesy of ZIYAWAMO PRODUCTIONS
Clearance by BEATMAKER for B. M. Music Supervision
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Production Coordination
ROGUE PRODUCTIONS
Co-Produced by
MICHAEL CROSS
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01:51:37:00
Special Thanks to
AMON NTULI
NISAAR MAHOMED
LINDA OOSTHUIZEN
MPHO MAKHETHA at MINANAWE MARKETING
JENNY POWELL
VUSI SHELEMBE
ALEXANDRA TANNER
GEORGINA TANNER
THANDO MANZI
HEINRICH BOHMKE (with two dots above the o),
SAMMY MAMABOLO
ETIENNE ESSERY
THE LOWVELDER
JAINE ROBERTS
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FAHRENHEIT 2010