THE AFCON 2010 edition has now come and gone. Congratulations to Egypt for winning an unprecedented third AFCON title on the trot.
Certainly this makes a mockery of the 2010 World Cup-the African champions will not be there.
What is more embarrasing is that Egypt brushed aside three of the 4 African countires that willbe in the 2010 World Cup.This brings to question again the year in which this continental showpiece is held. Is it wise to have it on the year of the World Cup? I certainly don't think so.
Apart from the shambolic refereeing in the tournament, lack of leadership by CAF has left a bitter taste and is fastly making a mockery of CAF as a whole.
CAF- in fact ISSA HAYATOU- this man is not deserving to be leading this continental Federation- he is useless, visionelss, and invisible- you only see him in Africa when it is CAF elections to positions, you see him when Sepp Blatter is touring the continent.
CAF- showed no leadership when Togo national team players were ambushed, left taumatised, and with 2 fatalities. I can't remember any statement released by CAF inthis regard- except to say the tournament will go ahead.
When the Togo government - did what they are obliged todo- to protect thier cititzens, ordered the team to return home- CAF bans the Togo Football Association- their fault- becuase the Togo government rightfully fears for the safety of its citizens(playesr) who are in the middle of an ambush in Angola- are ordered to withdraw from the AFCON.
CAF- instead slap a ban on Togo for the next two AFCON tournament and a fine.
How low can CAF stoop- choosing to act like this against a national association?
That is rather harsh for Togo Football. They did not leave the tournament out of their own will. Their government felt they had a duty to the players who are citizens of Togo.
My question to CAF: Are they treating loss of life as a political intervention? Are they trying to tell us that the AFCON tournament would have gone ahed even there was a civl war breaking out in Angola.
I am rather dissappointed by CAF and in particular Issa Hayatou who I am not sure why is he still at the helm of African football ?
Sadly, Hayatou has failed African football not once, not twice, but many times and his reward is succesive relection as CAF President.
This man(Hayatou) hardly spend a month in Afirca- he travells around the World being wined and dined by suitors who are lobbying for the vote of the African bloc.
I do not wish to remind South Africans that this is the same man who never voted for South Africa when we were bidding to host the 2006 World Cup.
It's time that our former players like Kalusha Bwalya, Abedi Pele, Roger Milla, should all step forward and be elevated to the CAF leadership.
I support Emmanuel Adebayor in his call for Issa Hayatou and the entire CAF leadership to resign.
ISSA HAYATOU must be recalled!!!
by Makhaya Manie
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Also kick Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma with the same boot. They have failed the dignity of Africa and it will take too very long to heal. We must not even wink, recently we felt very disturbed when some people placed all kinds of lables on one of South Africa's greatest athlete. Thus we must not show double standards when the perpetrators are in our backyard. Africa must never cease to seek righteouness in our quest of a better future from an ugly past. We came to freedomland because we were tired of evil and we must never condone none of that where-ever it may manifest itself. Many people died, many wives lost their husbands, parents lost their daughters and sons. Freedom is too dear to let one person spoil the rest of us. The ANC must do the right thing by sitting down it's president. This will bring credibility to the organization and our young boys and girls who will one day play role in active politics will learn a lot from this and our future will not fail us. When Zuma is out of office he can continue with his "culture" business. Therefore I call upon the young lions to defy Zuma untill he is removed out of office. All trade unions must join this defiance campaign because clearly Zuma is not a good boss. We called the former colonisers "sheep eaters", somebody at the top is "babby eater". Why is ANC womans league not so vocal, these are the very ones who shouls sack Zuma. Zuma also says he is doing his public and that tells me he knows who els is having all the side kicks and he must give us that list. It wont be amazing to find out those who are defending him have many affairs too. Well we brought many to Truth and Reconciliation Commission so lets get our ownselves in that very same Truth and Reconciliation Commision. Tutu is a man of cloth and no man of cloth has ever retired. Hey this things stinks and we must get it out quick. ANC and South Africa has many capable people who can lead us into the future. The cabinet must also come clean unless they are about themselves and not the people.
Zuma must be fired right now finish.
Roar Young Lion Roar!!!
state of the union adress, who in hell ever wants to hear or see this dude again. Zuma has already given the state of the union adress and he has said it loudly "it is very sexy" and unfortunately we do no do that sexy crap of his. We have lost too many loved ones from super aids to struggle and we are up to no gimmics from whosoever. I think he needs some psychytric evaluation. He thinks he can survive evrything but this time he put his foot on a snakes tail and it must struck him for his cruelty to animals in it's own defence. Harry Gwala is rolling in the grave and no doubt he would have told Zuma where to get off like he told some people not to even think of attending his funeral.
zuma just get the hell out.
Spear Gwiji
now Zuma who has been singing "give me my machine gun" is sending his sectert ploice to arrest a jogger who is actually an active ANC cadre. Apartheid is back and in full force by blacks ANC. zUMA SPECIAL BRANCH WILL SOON SPARK A MASS ROLLING ACTION THAT WILL SEND THIS COUNTRY BACK TO FLAMES. EVERY SINGLE DAY ZUMA IS STARTING A SPARK. AT LEAST THIS JOGGERS INCIDENT GIVE US A TASTE OF HOW WE TREAT THE aFRIKANER COMMUNITY. wE GOT ALONG REAL GOOD UNDER VERWOED AND BOTHAT BUT NOW THE UNTHINKABLE IS HAPPENING. ZUMA IS BANGING THE DAUGHTERS OF OUR NATION. hIS GOT TOO MUCH OF mSWATI sYNDROME, OH POOR MICKEY MOUSE COUNTRY.
aG SHAME LOVI
zuma is pimping south africa, he is running a brothel indeed. his ideology is aids is not a black thing and hence he uses no baraclava whenengaing children lately. zuma has and continues to cause pain than bro Bob Robert Mugabe will ever be possible in this millenium. if zulus are not killing each like flies they are molesting anything accessible. he is the worst ever president any democratic country has ever had. Even bantustan leaders had great legacy after them. The very same Dekler he calls "killer" is greatest leader and moralist or ethist. whatever zuma says is bull crab, he needs to get his shaik and both of them catch the next thing smoking at O.R Airport.
I am no longer a soth african with this kind of rubbish dingilingin office.
suma and malema are messing with us. Malema earns tenty thoudand rand but his watch is almost half a million. George Orwell put it best "no animal shall sleep im bed with clothes" Anyway South
Africas crime rate is highest in the world, no wonder we breed thugs at an alarming rate. Goverment leaders are feeding their greed in the name of business. overnight many exiles and roben island prisoners are billionares it is amazing when
malema wears a watch Mr. Richard Maponya cannot afford. No wonder he was condoning suma. We had a roben Island president, we had two presidents from exile. two presidents were Xhosa and now we have a sorry sulu president. That is what we get for not choosing Cyril Ramaphosa over Govan Mbekis son.Suma and Malema are comrade tsotsis. they eat kids and carry staches of money