GEOG 3050 Chapter Notes -Fnb Stadium, Share Taxi, Congress Of South African Trade Unions
23 Apr 2013
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Sa hosting the 2010 fifa world cup public demonstrations, strikes and other forms of civic campaigning. World cup activism preceded and followed by public unrest and industrial action. Paper: assesses the motivations, forms and implications of the activism during south africa s staging of the fifa finals and interprets them against the larger context of shifting state- society relations in the country. Violent demonstration in riverlea, a black township adjacent to soccer. City stadium in joburg in oct. 2009 several months before sa s fifa. Stadium had been extended and refurbished with 308million pounds. Residents of riverlea upset that the government is pouring money into the 2010 world cup instead of into housing: have no housing and no jobs. Some of the demonstrations stoned passing traffic and engaged in scuffles with the police. Represented the growing and widespread tide of social protest and civic campaigning in the months leading to, and during the world cup.
