Comments on: Vishwas Satgar: the Political Economy of FIFA http://www.radioopensource.org/vishwas-satgar-the-political-economy-of-fifa/ Christopher Lydon in conversation on arts, ideas and politics Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:09:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: orangescissor http://www.radioopensource.org/vishwas-satgar-the-political-economy-of-fifa/#comment-93740 orangescissor Fri, 18 Jun 2010 05:47:46 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=6721#comment-93740 i was fascinated by the opening ceremony imagery of the world cup in which blank squatter camp like tents were arranged in the shape of the continent of africa - and then the cameras panned out into the shape of the globe. to take that close up of south africa into a wide angle globe of blank camplike tents more literally, it seemed to suggest that africa had either moved from its oppressive colonial past into an egalitarian global community, or that the globe is becoming a blank large scale squatter camp from the bird's eye perspective of tv viewers. After listening to this conversation, it made me wonder in which direction the transitions from formal colonialism are moving. i was fascinated by the opening ceremony imagery of the world cup in which blank squatter camp like tents were arranged in the shape of the continent of africa – and then the cameras panned out into the shape of the globe. to take that close up of south africa into a wide angle globe of blank camplike tents more literally, it seemed to suggest that africa had either moved from its oppressive colonial past into an egalitarian global community, or that the globe is becoming a blank large scale squatter camp from the bird’s eye perspective of tv viewers. After listening to this conversation, it made me wonder in which direction the transitions from formal colonialism are moving.

]]> By: Yaser http://www.radioopensource.org/vishwas-satgar-the-political-economy-of-fifa/#comment-93739 Yaser Wed, 16 Jun 2010 03:37:47 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=6721#comment-93739 I was having this exact debate the other day with a friend. Its a case of a minority ruling the majority - endemic to the SA problem, and the majority of Africa. Without being racist, its the Afrikaner and British -'ethnic' - who hold the majority of wealth there, and are amongst the richest in the world, yet their country the poorest. The 'revolution' did nothing for the poor - majority ethnic African - as they're too busy lining their own pockets and grappling on to power. Yes, apartheid has ended, but how ?. Apart from the fact whites no longer rule politically, the country is very much run by them. The cricket team - the colonial game as spread by england [british empire] to mark its authority - is still run by the whites, with many 'coffees' making up the team. Only 1 pure African has been a regular in my memory - Ntini. Now I'm sounding incoherent - by virtue of being up at 3AM BST, I hope. Now the glaring error - amongst the many - in this post is that 'Safrica' FC is all black - barring the coaching team and Booth, and football is the popular sport with the majority black population as opposed to cricket, which is still the primary sport for white and asian diasporathere. So after an infinite and inevitable 'tl dr' post, I've contradicted myself. That said, the people running the economy as I aforementioned is white, so have they swept the nation with a wave of fake optimism that blinded them under the banner of nationalism ?, and therefore are the players inadvertantly the 'slaves' in all this ?. Oh, and watch the rest in peace ?, them vuvuzelas are sure soothing (vuvuzela distributor is an afrikaner company . .) I was having this exact debate the other day with a friend. Its a case of a minority ruling the majority – endemic to the SA problem, and the majority of Africa.

Without being racist, its the Afrikaner and British -’ethnic’ – who hold the majority of wealth there, and are amongst the richest in the world, yet their country the poorest.

The ‘revolution’ did nothing for the poor – majority ethnic African – as they’re too busy lining their own pockets and grappling on to power.

Yes, apartheid has ended, but how ?. Apart from the fact whites no longer rule politically, the country is very much run by them.

The cricket team – the colonial game as spread by england [british empire] to mark its authority – is still run by the whites, with many ‘coffees’ making up the team. Only 1 pure African has been a regular in my memory – Ntini.

Now I’m sounding incoherent – by virtue of being up at 3AM BST, I hope.

Now the glaring error – amongst the many – in this post is that ‘Safrica’ FC is all black – barring the coaching team and Booth, and football is the popular sport with the majority black population as opposed to cricket, which is still the primary sport for white and asian diasporathere.

So after an infinite and inevitable ‘tl dr’ post, I’ve contradicted myself. That said, the people running the economy as I aforementioned is white, so have they swept the nation with a wave of fake optimism that blinded them under the banner of nationalism ?, and therefore are the players inadvertantly the ‘slaves’ in all this ?.

Oh, and watch the rest in peace ?, them vuvuzelas are sure soothing (vuvuzela distributor is an afrikaner company . .)

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