The best thing about travelling to Brazil is that you don't need a visa when you travel on a South African passport. This is fantastic because, as a person who used to hold only a Ugandan passport, visa offices are like a firing squad to me.
A Ugandan passport is so useless that, even if you have one, you still need a visa to get into Uganda.
Now, as a person who has been to a World Cup before, I have to compare tournaments. I'm not one to diss countries, but Brazil should have been better prepared. I mean, if Limpopo can finish a stadium on time...
South Africa does not even really play soccer (you can't call what Bafana does soccer) but perhaps that is why we were able to pull off such a brilliant tournament - we could focus all our energies on the hosting.
A decent roof over my head was difficult to find and though the Brazilian people are helpful they speak only Portuguese, and speaking only Portuguese to an English-speaker is not being helpful.
Everyone tells you to use a language app but that's an exercise in futility.
When I finally translated what I wanted to ask , they told me there was no accommodation because they started preparing for the tournament only on Tuesday last week.
Kibuuka is in Brazil on his first big reporting assignment. He is the foreign correspondent of eNCA comedy show Late Night News with Loyiso Gola.
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