WE GO AGAIN
Commonwealth bid all over for Durban, bar shouting
It will take for heads to be plucked out of the sand, and, perhaps, for a few of those heads to roll if SA is to save face and the Games, writes Kevin McCallum
There have been awkward and deliberate silences between issuances on Durban and the 2022 Commonwealth Games. In between deadlines missed, payments not made and financial guarantees promised with crossed fingers, the South African organisers have kept shtoom. In between each of the line-in-the-sand meetings, there has been a head-in-the-sand response. It is understood that an absolutely, bloody final meeting will be held at the end of February, with Louise Martin, the Scottish president of the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF), heading south to have a chat with President Jacob Zuma. It is expected Martin will tell Zuma the 2022 Games will not happen in Durban. Zuma will tell Martin he wants them to go ahead. Martin will demur. Zuma desperately wants the Games to be held in KwaZulu-Natal. He may get on the blower to Donald Trump again and ask him how those executive order things work. That may be too late, though. The federation has apparently had enough. "A review team appointed by...
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