the global events mystery

Hello folks...my topic today is about the various sporting events that South Africa has hosted since the dawn of democracy and the impacts they had in our beloved country whether political,economical or socially.We hosted the rugby world cup in 1995,a year after we hosted africa's elite footballing competition the AFCON.In 2003 it was the cricket world cup and in 2010 we hosted what is arguably the world's biggest sport event the FIFA soccer world cup.Next year which is 2013 we will be in the ''class' of very few African teams to be fortunate enough to host the intercontinental showpiece more than once.Despite having hosted so many global events before it is argued that the ordinary citizens of South Africa have failed to benefit from the greener pastures  generated by these events.The defence point of government in this issue is that the transportation system has improved through the Gautrain and Rea vaya campaigns.Still an Plato-minded citizen will argue that the campaigns are only accessible in various places whre the most of the population is well-off.Some of the stadiums in certain provinces have turned from world class logistics to white elephants in an instant.An example of these kind of stadiums is the Mbombela Stadium and Nelson Mandela Stadium in Mpumalanga and Eastern Cape respectively.THE stadiums rarely host major national sport matches or events because tthere are no top-class teams of any sport code that play in national elite sport competitions,yet a tax payer still suffers from the monthly 14% deduction for the stadia's maintenance purposes.The hosting of the 2010 world cup raises a thorny question:did South Africa do a wise move to host the world cup at this point in time where more than 60% of the country is in poverty instead of using the money spent on all the logistics to help the poor on basuc needs and improve the education system.