Vuvuzela blows into Oxford English Dictionary

The vuvuzela, the horn instrument which became the sound of this summer's football World Cup in South Africa, has won an entry in the latest edition of the Oxford Dictionary of English, due to be published Thursday.

The dictionary, which is based on how language is really used, defines the horn as a long plastic instrument, in the shape of a trumpet, that makes a very loud noise when you blow it and is popular with football fans in South Africa.

Source: IoL

Black activists threaten to disrupt SA World Cup 2010

With the FIFA World Cup 2010 football tournaments only 91 days away in South Africa, it's not widely known that black activist groups and radical islamists plan to disrupt the events with massive, violent mass-protests and even armed attacks.

Internet sites in South Africa at the moment are crawling with calls to 'Kill all whites at the WC2010". These are no idle threats either: a hand-grenade and bombs were found on two popular Western-tourist beaches in Cape Town and Durban just recently -- and the country's top security expert warns of 'the very real threat of a terror attack against the WC2010…'

On March 10 2010 in Cape Town, a M75 Chech-made grenade was found on the Table View beach -- which is hugely popular with foreign tourists The grenade was safely exploded by a bomb-disposal expert in the ocean - who told journalist Leon Steenkamp of the local Table Talk community newspaper that 'the hand grenade had been emptied but based on its condition it had been recently dumped."

This wasn't seen as major news by the main-stream news media in South Africa who have been placed under censorship by FIFA -- with threats that their accreditation to football events will be withdrawn -- to only report 'good news' in the run-up to the World Cup. Only this one independent little paper reported the original story - with a front-page picture of the grenade being exploded in the ocean by a bomb-disposal expert.

Yet this should have received more media attention - especially when one also takes note of the recent warnings by top local security expert Frans Cronje, of the SA Institute for Race Relations -- writing in his Jan 2010 report that there is a 'very real terrorism threat' against the WC2010; and noting:

'One of the most effective assets that any terrorist group can possess is to convince its next target that they are no longer at risk…"

read his entire report here

Security experts involved in the arrangements surrounding the World Cup 2010 football tournaments should be alerted to every such incident – even an apparently minor one. Yet outside the readers of Table Talk, people remained blissfully ignorant until one of those emailed me a copied page: now the readers of my blog also know. Several months ago, several rockets also were found on a Durban beach. Again, very little media attention.

These are typical examples of the very pervasive media censorship to only report 'good news' in the runup to the WC2010: a direct result of the rules laid down by FIFA – the Austrian-based organiser of the WC2010.

Meanwhile the World Cup is also causing untold misery for many homeless people – there are widespread reports of crime gangs trying to abduct children outside their schools and homes to press them into sex-slavery -- and the tournaments have not even started -- yet the SA Police Service now issues frequent warnings. Only yesterday a 14-year-old Afrikaans girl (poster with this story) went missing in Benoni, near Johannesburg in Gauteng province and alerts were issued to try and find her.

Hundreds of squatter camps facing the football venues and along the tourist-routes are also being 'sanitised' -- causing misery to many hundreds of thousands of homeless adults and street children; Some 800 poor children in Nelspruit in Limpopo province were kicked out of their school near the FIFA-stadium to make way for site supervisors; and most reports of violent crimes are suppressed by the SAPS ; and FIFA is even interfering with Africa's traditional practices by banning rituals for good luck.

The South African people of all races are becoming increasingly angry with the 'wasteful WC2010' – but especially with their self-enriching, elitist ANC-leaders… who allow all this to happen.

Source: Rant

South African Police Commissioner updated on INTERPOL assistance for 2010 FIFA World Cup

National Commissioner of the South African Police Service Bheki Cele was updated on INTERPOL’s ongoing preparations to support national security for the 2010 FIFA World Cup during a visit to the General Secretariat headquarters on Tuesday. To date, more than two million tickets have been sold, with thousands of people from around the world expected to attend the world’s biggest sporting event which begins on 11 June 2010.

Commissioner Cele met and was briefed by INTERPOL officials on the INTERPOL Major Events Support Team (IMEST), comprising experienced specialised police officers and operational assistants which will be deployed ahead of and during the event.

Law enforcement officers across South Africa already have direct access to INTERPOL’s Stolen and Lost Travel Documents database – containing details of more than 11 million passports - enabling them to instantly check if any visitor entering the country is using a fraudulent document. Units deployed around the country will also be able to carry out on the spot checks for stolen motor vehicles against INTERPOL’s global database.

In addition, staff in the 24-hour Command and Co-ordination Centre at the General Secretariat headquarters will treat all 2010 FIFA World Cup-related requests and enquiries as a priority. INTERPOL has provided assistance for a range of major events across the globe, including the Beijing Olympics, the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany and the 2007 Cricket World Cup hosted across nine countries in the Caribbean.

Source: Interpol