Am I the only one irritated by the Vuvuzelas at the Confederations Cup?

Please don’t get me wrong, I like the vuvuzelas played in moderation. What I find sickening is the continuous buzzing sound that goes on forever and ends up being too noisy and uninspiring. Pray that you don't end up sitting next to one of those over-enthusiastic blowers who struggle to keep it quiet for a few minutes during the singing of the national anthems.
I’d rather we sing shosholoza or any other songs, just like we do at all our social gatherings. I suggest that SAFA and FIFA consider giving drums and other instruments to the passionate soccer fans that are always shown on tv so that we can do more singing and dancing. The rest of the people who can’t sing can blow the vuvuzelas.

Chaos at Confederations Cup opening match

It took us two hours to get into the Wits University Park n Ride and ended up arriving during the disappointing opening ceremony. This is the worst I have seen coming from South Africa and hope they will have a better plan for the World Cup.

Other issues I feel could've been better organised:
1. The Park n Ride at Sunninghill was cancelled without warning so we had to look around for an alternative. I had to use my mobile phone to locate other Park n Rides through joburg.org.za.
2. At Wits we were not allowed through the Empire Road entrance, which was totally unnecessary. We had to use the overcrowded Jorrisen Street entrance and had to queue for over 2 hours. Wits security only opened the second and third gate much later despite being warned of long queues.
3. FIFA didn’t bother letting people know about using other Park n Rides when Wits was obviously not working out. We didn't know whether it was worthwhile going to Nasrec or Bez Valley.
4. At the stadium food ran out before the opening ceremony so we had to snack on chocolate and biltong. People running the stalls were not even embarrassed about it.
5.Returning back was apparently a bigger nightmare but we thankfully left the stadium before the final whistle.

Hopefully FIFA will iron out some of the issues we experienced because I can’t imagine going through this again. I’ll be at Ellis Park on the 18th for Egypt vs. Italy.

Zuma's 500k jobs make perfect sense

Everybody is concerned about President Zama’s promise of 500 000 jobs in a time when our economy is in a recession. I say give him a break; surely he has done his home work. After all he’s a president, isn’t he? Now as far as I recall he didn’t quite elaborate what those 500 000 job are, so, nobody should shoot him down just yet. Here’s how I break it down.

Firstly, each municipality will be asked to issue a tender for picking up papers on the streets for only one day. That’ll amount to a substantial number of jobs. If this still doesn’t add to 500 000, then Public Works will be requested to employ people to each dig up a hole for one day to make up the balance. If this still doesn’t add up, the balance will be made up by the guys asked to cover the holes that have been dug. There you are - 500 000 jobs for the masses.

What I didn’t get though, is why all his wives fell asleep during the opening of parliament.