Indigenous Resistance in the Metropolis of Megaevents
With the threat of the FIFA World Cup came the pretext for companies, in complicity with all three levels of government, to begin looking at the land with new eyes. The challenges intensified and became constant threats of eviction so that the space might be transformed into a parking lot, a mall, or any other thing to create profit.
South Africa was not a Fifa success story
South Africa’s experience in June-July 2010 was mixed, with huge long-term financial deficits and a distorted, short-lived psychological improvement in the wake of the world’s main soccer tournament.
