Quite agree about the lack of benefits for most of the population. The Cape Town stadium is now a large burden on the ratepayers as they built it in one of the most inappropriate places for functionality. It is now a virtually unused and unusable monument to corruption, greed and stupidity, but it doesn't look like anyone is likely to gain by the lesson except the corrupt.
Cheers,
Peter in Cape Town
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Wikimania in Brazil in 2015, so no problems. ;)

And, yeah, some strange sport...


On 29 March 2013 20:09, Everton Zanella Alvarenga <
everton.alvare...@okfn.org> wrote:

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2013/3/29 Matthew Roth <mr...@wikimedia.org>
>
> I hear 2014 will be a very busy year in Brasil
> Some sport thing with a ball and a large green pitch :)

Yeah, we are going to have the world cup, where millions and millions
of reais (our currency) is going to corrupts to an event that lasts
only a few days and only high middle class to rich people (and
foreigners, hey!) will have access to.

And silly people believe in the silly arguments of economical benefits
from this crap. Just hace a look at South Africa case. :(

Fortunately, I hope I will stay far from Brazil to don't see this,
because only who live here and use Brazilian public services (I am not
mentioneing the blind middle class) will see the consequences in the
mid and long term of so much corruption.

Hopefully hotels will be so expensive that Wikimania here won't be
sustainable.

Tom

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