Welcome to the new colonialism, this time courtesy of your new masters, the ANC-led Government of South Africa. So keen for a quick buck, they have sold your country and every citizen in it down the proverbial river. You will get to stand on the sidelines while tourists come here to spend and foreign companies rake in the profits.

I was first turned on to the gross abuses being perpetrated by FIFA and the South African government by two pieces on The Daily Maverick. I ask that you read them, as the author is infinitely more eloquent in his description than I can ever be.

The first: Boycott FIFA.
The second: Really, Boycott the FIFA farce.

NOTE 10/06/2010: This website was not created, and is not owned by Ivo Vegter, the author of these columns. As of 7 June 2010, however, he was granted posting rights to this website, in order to contribute to a public repository of news articles and resources documenting FIFA’s exploitation of South Africa.

A recent summary of the Boycott FIFA call: The FIFA conquistadors are coming!

Also of great interest is the investigative work on FIFA’s corruption by BBC journalist Andrew Jennings, as documented at Transparency in Sport, as well as South Africa’s special FIFA laws: First FIFA Special Measures Act and Second FIFA Special Measures Act.

The campaign hashtag is #boycottfifa. Get a Twibbon or Facebook sticker here.