aftermath of stadium disaster

Описание: (12 Apr 2001)

VOICED BY: LOUISE BATES

0000-0010 Close-up exterior Ellis Park Stadium
0010-0013 Abandoned shoes on ground
0013-0016 Close-up football ticket on the ground
0015-0025 Newspaper headlines, various
0025-0027 Sign on side of undertaker's vehicle
0027-0034 People waiting in mortuary
0034-0038 Set up of Roy Nation
0038-0056 SOUNDBITE: (English) Roy Nation, Bereaved father
0056-0101 Exterior Johannesburg hospital
0101-0109 South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma visiting hospital
0109-0127 SOUNDBITE: (English) Vox Pop
0127-0130 Exterior government building
0130-0133 Government officials meeting in street
0133-0139 Officials arriving for meeting
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STORYLINE:

On Thursday morning South Africa began counting the cost of a soccer stampede the previous night which left 43 people dead, including children, and scores more injured.

The tragedy occurred during a league match between the country's two biggest football teams, the Kaizer Chiefs and the Orlando Pirates.

The rampage started when thousands of fans who couldn't fit into the stadium for the game between the Kaizer Chiefs and the Orlando Pirates shoved and broke through the fence around the facility or climbed over gates.

VOICE-OVER:

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At Ellis Stadium in Johannesburg the wreckage and litter still remain a day after the tragedy occurred.

They are a poignant reminder of what can happen when sporting events get out of control.

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The newspapers are scathing in their criticism of those who organised the event and the police whose job it was to control the crowds.

Both failed, they say.

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The relatives of the 43 who died in the melee gathered at one of Johannesburg's mortuaries.

They, too, blame the game's organisers.

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This man lost his 11-year-old son, trampled to death by the crowd.

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SOUNDBITE: (English)
"We tried to... we were shouting 'Stop the game' and everything and nobody reacted. After 45 minutes they started to react. They started about quarter to eight, they started the stampede, and everything, and the gate was open, and who opened the gates?"
SUPER CAPTION: Roy Nation, Bereaved father

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But the dead may not be the only cost that the nation has to bear.

South Africa hopes to host the 2010 World Cup - a bid that many South Africans believe may have been irreparably harmed by the tragedy.

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SOUNDBITE: (English)
"And I think they will seriously consider whether it will be a great risk to the international public to have to come to South Africa and be put at risk in stadiums which are not controlled properly by security - there is no control in the sale of tickets, and facilities are not user-friendly."
SUPER CAPTION: Vox pop

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Meanwhile, South Africa has postponed all soccer matches due to be played this weekend.

Whether it was an act of compassion or of fear remains unclear.

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