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Yes, Bafana Bafana is out of the Fifa 2010 World Cup. Yes we are the only host nation in the history of the World Cup to not make it through to the 2nd round of the tournament but it just isn’t that simple now is it? Bafana blew out of the tournament bit did not crash and burn as they did this, they climbed the ranks of football in a rising fireball.

My friend Prudence sums it up perfectly:

Yes, let’s just run through that again shall we; Bafana did not qualify for this World Cup and competed on the basis that we were the hosts. We are ranked 83rd in the World right now. We drew with Mexico, ranked 17th. We lost to Uruguay who are ranked 16th and we beat, yes that is correct, we beat the French who are World Cup winners and currently ranked 9th in the world.

I am extremely proud of Bafana Bafana and must say that they played world class football yesterday against the French. The deserved a win and proved that they can compete with the best in the world and come out on top. I also believe that Frances internal politics cannot be an excuse for the French. They are a world class team with world class players and should be able to rise above their own rubbish and win. Their fans must be bitterly dissapointed and they owe their fans an apology.

I’ll still be pulling for the African teams along the way and hope that a few of them manage to make it through and give us Africans something to cheer for.

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I’ve blogged about Miriam Jo’Burg before. Apparently she’s doing incredibly well in France and is recording her first album to be released very soon.

Here’s a bit of a video!

Mariam Jo’Burg RTL2 Pop/Rock Tour 2007 (n°1 à Belfort)

She’s a South African born muso doing her thing abroad. Great stuff.

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This is a strange discovery. Not the discover itself, but the manner in which she was discovered.

Mariam Jo’burg (yes that is apparently the name she goes by) is a Johannesburg local, born in SA but living in France. She is a musician and by the sounds of her Myspace page and the songs there, she is a damn good musician with a very unique sound.

The reason that me discovering her is strange is because I’m still in awe of the whole crowdsourcing web2.0 vibe. So when someone finds a blog post of mine on here and suggest I take a look at and review so-and-so, I’m still astounded. Simply put, someone commented on a post here on SA Rocks asking me to check out Mariam Jo’burg. So I did. Googling the name takes you to various online representations for Mariam Jo’burg.

Here’s the biography that is listed on MySpace:

well to make it short and sweet, MARIAM comes from South Africa where all her family still lives and also where she started composing many of her songs on the guitar, after a first attempt at university in RSA she set off to France and landed in besancon (north east) where she met niels (the drummer) they started an acoustic version of her songs and did little concerts here and there, and then were joined by great friends and great musicians (regis -piano, manu – bass, juan-electric guitar), the group is currently recording a new album at “le pavillon”(studio in besancon)…will all keep you posted when its finished and ready! see ya! PS: i am currently writting out a better BIOGRAPHY, but this will do for now!
VENEZ VOIR SUR http://www.rtl2.fr/ dans ..v..nement poprock!!!!!!!!!!!

Have a look at this:

I am mightily impressed with this young talent and hope that SA Radio picks her up fast. In fact I hope that the entire world does, or Europe to start with. I love her sound, vibe and introspective approach. The chorus is swaying, melodic and catchy. Just the perfect combination for a radio hit.

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