The World Cup is a fleecing exercise, just like hosting the Olympics was for Greece. It's the start of our incredibly unsustainable public debt, shortly after Mbeki's careful inflation targeting and real austerity measures were hijacked by Zuma with his grants for votes programme. Statecapture writ large.

It's another example of a state solution that is often worse than the problem it is trying to solve. Not really sure how it relates to public transport or mass transport, but fair enough if you don't count Uber as a mass transport system.

I for one would gladly use public transport/mass transport if it were cheaper than a car and if it were more reliable. The Gautrain is frequently plagued by strikes, it's not cheaper, and it doesn't go where I go on a daily basis.