I’ve finally had enough of this nonsense. Thabo Mbeki continues to prop up a corrupt, murderous regime in Zimbabwe. His support of Robert Mugabe has cost thousands of lives, and has ruined a once prosperous nation. It is time for the rest of the world to hit Mbeki where it hurts most: the World Cup. Mbeki has tied his legacy to the World Cup. Undermining the World Cup will certainly cause him to squirm, and may finally lead to South Africa offering a meaningful solution to this crisis.
This blog is a call for people from around the world to boycott the 2010 World Cup. I urge all football fans to begin a campaign against the World Cup in a similar way to the protests that have been seen against the Olympics in China. We need to begin to organize people to protest outside South African embassies. We need to make our voices heard to World Cup sponsors. We need to stay at home and not support our local sides at the World Cup. Instead of taking our tourist dollars to South Africa, we need to travel to other countries that have bravely confronted Mugabe.
Please feel free to comment on this blog and pass it around. I hope that this will inspire other people from around the world to boycott the 2010 World Cup in South Afica! Let’s hit Mbeki where it hurts most! Let’s organize and fight injustice in Zimbabwe. Let’s help Zimbabweans live up to the promise of freedom!
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5 comments:
Shut your mouth. This is a moment that all Africans can be proud of. We do not need any lectures from you colonialists.
Mugabe and Mbeki will always be our liberation heros. You cannot take that away from them. They are our brothers and do not answer to you.
Stop posting this link on soccer blogs. Nobody cares about this! If you want to talk about politics, go to CNN or the New York Times. Keep sports and politics separate.
You did the right thing here Voice of Reason. AU rebuff has vindicated your stance. Hear Voice of Reason.
I am not fan of in fact ashamed of 'colonial past' however two wrongs don't make a right.
Eldred is partly right M&M are indeed liberation heroes, unfortunately power corrupts as we in the west also know much to our cost.
Jonsey, don't you know that sport and politics kind of depend on each other? Figure?
VoR, Keep up the good work. I am an admin on the Facebook Boycott 2010 WC group (1 of two claims to fame) and it would be great to work together on this. If you get in touch there or on my contact page it would be good to talk some more. Perhaps we could bounce some ideas around how to recruit and measure the success of the Boycott.
What seizes to amaze me is how easy human suffering both outside and inside South Africa can be downplayed in the light of a big Sport event/s and the obvious financial gain for the few. We as South Africans are to blame for our apathy and indecision on many socio economic issues. We allow a broad range of leaders(Political,Business,Spiritual etc.) to divide us a nation in to groups making a stand on power based popularity, based on situational ethics but not values , action and credibility.
If we care to make a difference we should stand up to be counted for the right reasons and make a difference to those around us.
This call to action is a spark in the right direction. But we need to escalate this without political agendas.
The first comments made by anonymous and eldred shows the political bias and support of situational ethics i spoke of earlier. If either these persons were directly involved as victims of Zimbabwe or South African serious crimes and were treated with the same level of apathy and carelessness, I am sure they would be designing their own blog in a fight against these very real problems instead of supporting the present scourge of popular support of groups & individuals against all odds.
International support for the effort might not stop the WC , but could cause enough doubt to get the popular leaders to get off their thrones and engage with the real civil leaders about the real issues, or face a disrupted WC 2010.
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