I see that the BBC are trailing a series of programmes about WAGS (Wives and Girlfriends of soccer stars) and how they help South African kids achieve their dreams. Great to see quality programming. Well worth the £3.5bn per year they steal from us?
WAGS, KIDS AND WORLD CUP DREAMS
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There was an article about this very series by a newspaper columnist (which I can’t find) on the episode that they watched.
It was about the WAGS trying to convince a group of SA sex workers to stop prostituting themselves, selling sex for money and goods, they should go out and get proper jobs.
As the columnist wrote ‘The words, Pot, Kettle spring to mind’
Is the BBC suggesting that there are people in South Africa that need help?
Meenwhile on C4 dispatches what looks like being a less flattering look at South Africa
The Lost Girls of South Africa
As international attention focuses on South Africa for the World Cup, this documentary explores record levels of child sex abuse in a country where a child is raped every three minutes, and where AIDS continues to spread with epidemic ferocity. Dispatches follows four girls aged 11 to 13 as they struggle to come to terms with the crimes committed against them and fight the social stigma that comes with the abuse.
The SA World Cup has provided the BBC an excellent opportunity to reiterate its “we love you black people” mantra. We’ve already had the warmly entitled Wonderful Africa on BBC4 and there’s a soon to appear doc by one of the Dimbebores “african Journey” whose avowed aim is to show Africa in a “different light” ie the same positive spin that the BBC always puts on that continent.
Strange to relate but the WAGS programme is perhaps the only one of these which even acknowledges poverty and the power of individual responsibility. Maybe BBC3 is becoming the intellectual vanguard of the BBC.
This is the sort of trash I have come to expect from the BBC. Their idea of ‘getting down wid da youf’
Can’t we just take all beeboids up in a plane somewhere and push them out of it? If they need a pusher I’ll happily do it.
The BBC is obsessed with Africa. They must employ people whose job it is to ensure constant programmes about Africa. If it isn’t interminable fund-raising for Children or whatever it’s called when they wear red noses and nonsense, it’s sending people out to build things in villages, or explorers, or survival / reality endurance programmes, or wildlife, or African religions, or bringing African warriors to England, or matchmaking English women with Zulus, or as now, the WAGs being roped in because of the football…
You’d think we lived in Africa, not Europe, or that the populace was crying out for African programmes.
The BBC has appointed itself as some kind of ‘multiculturalist’ ambassador for black South Africa, and is using BBC licence-payers’ money, in the guise of the football World Cup, to do so.
There are plenty of stories about British society (and football) which the BBC should give priority to. But the BBC sticks to its political agenda.
Christ all mighty, I really wish I’d not seen this thread. What kind of tw*t at the BBC thought this would be good TV and a valid way to spend my licence fee?
Aside from the blatant bucket of vomit that this programme is, they’re not even fecking WAGS!!!! “Ex”, “On off partner”, “Ex partner”. Surely when a braindead footballer bins a WAG and moves on to the next plastic numbskull, said numbskull loses all rights to be described as a WAG?
I suppose “Ex Wags / On Off WAGS / Please still refer to me as a WAG even though I haven’t slept with a footballer for at least a week and I’m a media whore – Kids and World Cup Dreams” doesn’t quite have the same ring to it does it?
The whole thing is a horror show and it gives me great despair to think I funded the worthless piece of turd.
John,
Great post !
try going out there and witnessing the things that happens to the children and women of africa before slating those people who are trying to stop it! just because they’re not A list wags doesn’t mean they don’t care, each one of those women have been out to help those in need, does it really matter who they are? at least they’re trying to help. Have you ever thought that that ‘worthless piece of turd’ that you helped fund has actually donated a good amount of money to those children, i worked at Baphumelele orphanage, those children are inspiring and have been through terrible ordeals, they deserve to have a better life. Grow up.