With all the Soccer World Cup hype that took South Africa from strength to strength, and made us realise that when we are the hosts, we come out in style and the’ show dem’ who and what we as a country are made of. We set aside out differences, came out as a nation and represented only what we knew best, how to come together as a nation and celebrate an auspicious occasion, that only passes by our doorsteps once in a life-time.
The only big question that remains is... how will we all feel the day after the World Cup? Its a scary feeling, knowing that everything goes back to the way it was before that world cup, but does it all have to go back being the same?
Take our public transport transit system as a perfect example: in my experience; I’ve had a safe and fun journey travelling by train to and from Cape Town during the world cup. The extra bonus was having so many police on the train, feeling safe, secure and coming home as late as two in the morning, knowing you’re going to have a safe trip home. The fact that the trains operated so late at night is totally awesome! This would reduce drunken driving and reduce the traffic on our roads don’t you think?
Having police patrolling the streets every night, if only we always had this, this country would be safer, and people would actually want to go out, knowing they will be safe and knowing that if anyone is too drunk, we could simply take a train or bus home.
If we want to be one country, the government needs to listen to the needs of its citizens and it would be great to have it as a norm in this country. Even more so, having trains arrive on time like they did in the world cup, even though close to the end like last night, the trains were running late again.
One must wonder if this is just who we are or can we actually change the way we think and function as individuals and citizens. If we could pull it off this world cup, surely it opens the gates of possibilities and change and that it is possible.
On the 12 July 2010, I think we should all review what happened in the world cup, keep the good things and let the bad ones go, or fix what was done unfairly and do things the write way for once in our human life!
Lovely chatting, chow bela!
Philip is really gone! You right the World Cup did bring about many good things in our country. Many developments wouldn’t have taken place if we didn’t host the Cup. It also created a sense of unity, unity that ended soon after the World Cup was over, I’m referring to the xenophobia attacks that have been taking place. I really don’t understand why or how other Africans can be so malicious towards each other.
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