After the release of the story in the weekends paper that there is infighting in the World Cup Local Organising Committee (LOC),  the chairman of the LOC, Irvin Khoza, came out to say that all the stories of there being problems within the members of the LOC are not true and that relations between him and the committee’s chief executive Danny Jordan are strained. Irvin Khoza was clearly very upset when he was making his statement and then he went on to call a reporter a “kaffir”.

This has caused a lot of stir within the media with many people saying what Irvin Khoza said was wrong. There have been calls for Khoza to make an apology for using such a derogatory term during a media briefing. Granted that Khoza excused his actions before he made the statement but I feel he should not have even used such a word. In a time where South Africa is trying to move forward as best as it can, we have national figureheads such as Irvin Khoza using such words which we have tried to abolish in South Africa.

What do you think should happen now, should Irvin Khoza make another apology or should we just leave it and move on? The other question is, what Irvin Khoza said on Monday about everything being rosey in the LOC, is everything as perfect as he says it is? I would like to believe that all is well in the LOC and we are on track to hosting a great World Cup in 2010, but there is no smoke without fire and there must be some element of truth in the reports published on the weekend.