South African activist Ashraf Cassiem on the World Cup
This Sunday the whole world will be watching the final of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. The first ever World Cup held on South African soil, the tournament was a landmark event for Africa. But thousands of poor people have been evicted from their homes and the plight of the poor has grown worse in the lead-up to the games.
This Sunday the whole world will be watching the final of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. The first ever World Cup held on South African soil, the tournament was a landmark event for Africa. But thousands of poor people have been evicted from their homes and the plight of the poor has grown worse in the lead-up to the games.
In this video Ashraf Cassiem, Chair of War on Want’s partner the Anti-Eviction Campaign (AEC), discusses the impact of the World Cup on South Africans and the Poor People’s World Cup, a tournament of 36 teams from poor communities in Cape Town.
To hear more about the impact of the World Cup in Cape Town, visit our interactive panoramas from inside Blikkiesdorp, one of South Africa’s most notorious transit camps for poor people who have been evicted from their homes.