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The Horns are called Vuvuzelas.... you blow it like a trumpet...you need strong lips and good lungs... its part of the soccer culture down here... nothing like a 125dbs to get you up off your butt. If you go to any games you need to take earplugs to prevent hearing damage and also to prevent hearing the sound for the next 2 days.
In the stadium its awesome (with ear plugs) , on the TV it becomes an endless drone as you can't selectively isolate it...
We are having such a party down here... the country has pratically shutdown and the streets are filled with flags etc... most cars are festooned with flags as well. Almost every business is flying flags of the world and inside the offices its one major colour explosion of flags, trumpets, banners etc... My kids ( 4 and 8) are even tatooed (temporarty) with flags.
For the last 4 months we have 'Soccer Friday' where everbody wears our national team's jersey or colours.
We have numerous fan parks that are permanent party places...
Its so hectic here, I'm off on safari to the Ocavango swamps to escape civilization for two weeks... I prefer the roar of a lion to the Vuvuzela.
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From a very generalistic demographics point of view, local club soccer is mainly suported by the black population. Because of the 'colonial' link to Europe, there is fair of amount of interest in the European club soccer with the whites.
The sports of choice for the white population is mainly Cricket and Rugby. There are obviously large fan bases across all race groups across all the sports, but if you look at the proportions the differecnt race groups have their favourite sports.
The cool thing about this World cup, who cares what sport you enjoy, people are getting caught up the atmosphere and enjoying it.... I suspect after it all ends its back to regular programming with regards to sports of choice.
Me... Not really a big 'ball' sports fan... I'm enjoying the buzz and hopefully the world see this country is not at war with itself, we don't live in mud houses and we do not have lions in the main street. We have roads, skyscrapers, highspead trains, happy people, supercars, food and wine from the gods and sexy woman. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif[/img]
Ah... another Sh*t day in Africa [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif[/img]
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"Me... Not really a big 'ball' sports fan... I'm enjoying the buzz and hopefully the world see this country is not at war with itself, we don't live in mud houses and we do not have lions in the main street. We have roads, skyscrapers, highspead trains, happy people, supercars, food and wine from the gods and sexy woman. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif[/img] "
My first wife was South African, when people asked her what her "village" was like (Jo'burg), she would respond that it was like Houston (Texas)...that never failed to get a rise. I still have family in Capetown and long to see them again. It is a very beautiful country.
The World Cup is the best thing to happen to the world view of South Africa since the end of Apartheid.
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"We have roads, skyscrapers, highspead trains, happy people, supercars, food and wine from the gods and sexy woman. "
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South Africa should not be grouped under the rest of Africa. While there are many similarities with the rest of Africa, South Africa is a very developed and advanced country.
Have a look at this picture since I think it tells the story about the levels of development in AFrica vs. South Africa very well. As you can see, there is not all that much difference between South Africa and the US west coast, Australia etc.
I never had any doubt about South Africa putting up a world class event.
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