FIFA-kd and lovin' it!

So you've got your FIFA World Cup tickets?
Then shut up and diski!
The Brazil and Portugal samba  awaits this writer. As does the semi-finals, match 53 (we'll have to wait and see who plays) and Durban's opening match featuring Germany versus Australia on Sunday the next.
Tickets to the finals at R4 200 a pop were also available.
But that's the game I planned to catch on TV.
Soccer City's grande finale would have been a tad too crowded for me - oh and did I mention the  category two ticket was going for a song, ahem!
A senior citizen uncle tried to illegally purchase my semi-finals' tickets at the FIFA ticketing centre at Suncoast yesterday. (Illegal as FIFA and our government deems it so.)
I told him FIFA wouldn't permit that. He could be arrested and watch the match with inmates who have been given TV screens on this special occasion. And I don't think his wife would've appreciated him dropping the soap.
If I were willing to part with the set though it would have been at a donation of three times the price. Standing in a line from midnight till 11.30am did result in some wear and tear and someone would have had to compensate for that. (By the way re-selling of tickets is strictly forbidden - so best you suppport the FIFA mafia the way our government does.)
A MATCH IN A BILLION
At R3, 5 billion for the stadium it appears we are paying FIFA around half a billion rand to stage each game in Durban. A scary thought, especially considering the powers that be aren't really paying a heck of a lot of attention to see that we, the citizens, are safe in our own towns and our own homes in this a-spiralling crime wave period.
SHOT 'CLIFFE!
Then again one can't have fartish attitudes. Our city fathers, especially that awesum dude Mike Sutcliffe whom everyone loves to hate cos it's fashionable to hate whiteys who are actually doing SOMETHING for the city, must have an awesome plan for the Moses Mabhida Stadium post World Cup 2010.
The whingers whom are closet DA supporters and reactionaries (please come out, there's a place for all God's children in the sun) should take pride in their bread-basket resembling stadium.
I am certain Sunday picnics will be the order of the day as will Bollywood concerts and such. Our honourable deputy mayor Logie Naidoo is also planning an India/SA series with a Bolly twist come January 2011. This to celebrate the arrival of the 1860 Indentured labourers to Durban.
Coming back to the FIFA World Cup 2010 - those who scored tickets are damn lucky.
Or damn lahnees. Or maybe you have a kind mistress with a fat wallet or a fat mistress with a kind wallet - whichever, whatever. You've won.
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P.S. COVER Girl Rizelle J (up above) is a child of the soil. But will this KZN FaceBook sensation win the Miss Earth SA in association with Consol challenge? We'll just have to wait ...

P.P.S. 
WHERE IN THE WORLD IS LOGIE???
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