Media who Endorse Boycotting 2010 World Cup & their Justifications...

The latest media outlet to support a call for a Boycott of the World Cup, is Richmark Sentinel's editor Michael Trapido. RS Boycott is in support of gay activists, who are objecting to South Africa's foreign policy to Uganda, with the particular demand that President Zuma withdraw the nomination of Jon Qwelane as Ambassador to Uganda:

As a result acts such as supporting President Robert Mugabe, suggesting Jon Qwelane for the post of Ugandan ambassador and refusing the Dalai Lama entry until after the World Cup occasion a backlash against this country and calls to boycott the World Cup.

The Richmark Sentinel was approached by gay activists who are calling for a boycott of the football tournament pursuant to a renowned homophobe being suggested as our representative to Uganda.

Other news outlets who have previously expressed their support for the Boycott of the World Cup, include, the New York Times and Eureka Street (AU), both on the issue of Mugabe and Zimbabwe; and South Africa's conspiracy of silence:

Maybe Zimbabwe should become to the South Africa-hosted World Cup what Tibet has been to the Beijing Olympics — the pungent albatross that spoils every press conference and mars every presentation with its insistent odor.

South Africa has forfeited the right to stage the 2010 football World Cup. By supporting and sustaining the holocaust unfolding in Zimbabwe, the Government has aligned itself with the ranks of evil. It is one thing to refuse to intervene when cruelty is rife in a neighbouring country, quite another to fuel it with sympathetic words, pathetic policies and required resources.

And the Huffington Post's David Wallechinsky called for a Boycott of the World Cup last year, in objection to the ANC's treatment of the Dalai Lama:

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