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Sepp Blatter in the footsteps of Albert Speer

Megalomania is an engrained birth defect of Germanic tribes, and it is of little surprise that FIFA 'president' Seppl Blatter - whose close links to neo-nazi hoodlums in Augsburg and Dresden are legendary - strived hard to realise his white supremacist dreams with projects that could have sprung from the drawing pen of Nazi architect Albert Speer. Sadly, South Africans will have to foot the ZAR 13 billion bill, repayable at annual interest rate of 7% over the next 20 - 25 years to mainly Swiss and German creditors. It makes the FIFA inspired project of neo-colonialism the biggest financial scandal on the African continent in history.

A new book by two (white) South Africans sheds light on the case of the Green point stadium in Cape Town, the tip of the iceberg in the scandal. Journalists Karen Schoonbee and Stefaans Brummer, in a hard-hitting and in-depth new book, examine the pompous monument of Blatter's megalomaniac traits, and similar cases of conflicting interests, tender irregularities, and potential corruption around World Cup developments, as well as alleged global corruption within Fifa.


Late in 2005, Fifa chieftain Sepp Blatter met then-president Thabo Mbeki (ANC). The next day Mbeki's minister Essop Pahad (ANC) called then-Western Cape Premier Ebrahim Rasool (ANC): "The presidency felt that Cape Town must consider Green Point." This was a "tipping point" in a (ANC) national government decision to build the ZAR4.7 billion Cape Town Stadium, in which cash-starving Fifa's executives trumped the needs of mostly black South Africans. The betrayal of black South Africans by the greedy hands of the ANC is mind-blowing.

The book, Player and Referee: Conflicting interests and 2010 Fifa World Cup, was launched in Woodstock on Wednesday by the Institute for Security Studies. It presents six case studies by numerous award-winning investigative journalists including a chapter by British author Andrew Jennings.

In the chapter by Schoonbee and Brummer, they outline how Fifa and the Local Organising Committee (LOC), "effectively Fifa's agent", pressed the City of Cape Town into signing off a last-minute decision against the preferred venue, the already existing Athlone Stadium. South Africa's initial World Cup bid fingered Newlands Stadium as Cape Town's venue. Fifa accepted this, but the 40,000 seater would not be able to stage any games beyond a quarterfinal. Athlone, however, was the City of Cape Town's choice.

Gert Bam, the city's director of sport and recreation, said: "Why we chose Athlone Stadium was not just because of football and all that, but it would have turned the city around, it would have impacted this tale of two cities... Everybody agreed." But while provincial and city authorities were in agreement by 2004, the LOC's Danny Jordaan said the proposal was questionable in terms of "Fifa's last-minute and obscured requirements".

The next year Blatter conveyed an implicit threat: Fifa was considering allocating only five matches to Cape Town, "definitely a downgrading of the status of the city". Shortly after this, the city and province began to investigate Fifa's preferred Green Point as a "Plan B". This followed secret negotiations between Blatter and bankers in Zuerich and Frankfurt.

A Fifa delegation to the city - including Jerome Valcke, now its general secretary - made it clear it did not like the existing Athlone. "Jordaan telephoned Rasool and told him the Fifa delegation were not convinced that Athlone should be a match venue and felt that Cape Town was underselling itself," said Laurine Platzky, the province's 2010 co-ordinator.

The next month Blatter himself was in town, telling Rasool "Fifa had severe misgivings about Athlone". The fate of the city of Cape Town, and of mainly black and poor South Africans, was sealed; ironically between a white supremacist organisation and a black ANC government. That same day the playdough president Blatter met real president Mbeki, following which Pahad made his call to silence Rasool's doubts and reservations.

Rod Solomons, then the Western Cape sports and recreation head, said: "The only person that could intervene here would have been Sepp Blatter, and the only person who he could talk to to overturn that resolution of South Africa would be the president of South Africa." Deputy sport and recreation minister Gert Oosthuizen eventually "let the cat out the bag", announcing that Green Point stadium had been decided on - even before the city had agreed to this! The city and province hurriedly "welcomed" this in a joint statement, and Blatter then signed the Cape Town agreement the same day the DA's Helen Zille was elected as mayor. Reportedly $75,000 also changed hands, and a visibly pleased Blatter hurried back home.

"Was the hurry, in the final days of (then Cape Town mayor Nomaindia) Mfeketo's administration, a deliberate stratagem to pass an unpalatable decision?" asked Schoonbee and Brummer, merely rhetorically.