Four years ago, Project 2010 was launched with the aim of providing a free flow of information relating to the preparations for the 2010 World Cup. In our mission statement, we declared our confidence that South Africa would host the greatest World C...
Views: 237 | 1 Comment » | posted on Wednesday, July 14th, 2010 | Tags: 2010 World Cup, crime, John Carlin, Sepp Blatter, unity
One of the great successes of the 2010 World Cup -- and there have been many -- is how the special courts which were set up for the tournament have succeeded in dealing with the criminal activity that is part-and-parcel of hosting an event of this ma...
Views: 172 | No Comments » | posted on Thursday, June 24th, 2010 | Tags: none
All of South Africa is now just days away from the party of a lifetime.
The signs are there for all to see -- the millions of flags, the enormous Word Cup-themed murals draped around buildings, the clatter of helicopters, the droning of vuvuzelas...
Views: 294 | No Comments » | posted on Thursday, June 3rd, 2010 | Tags: 2010 World Cup, Bafana, Benni McCarthy, Fifa, Germany
With all the concerns about Bafana Bafana's chances of making it through the first round of the 2010 World Cup, the host nation appears to have been handed a lifeline.
It comes in the form of the mighty vuvuzela, a plastic trumpet which emits a n...
Views: 669 | 3 Comments » | posted on Thursday, May 20th, 2010 | Tags: Bafana Bafana, Fifa, Sepp Blatter, vuvuzela, World Cup
It's still too early to gauge the impact that the 2010 World Cup will have on international perceptions of South Africa. Nevertheless, it's safe to say that a great deal of inaccurate and over-the-top foreign media coverage has contributed to the dip...
Views: 1013 | 3 Comments » | posted on Wednesday, May 5th, 2010 | Tags: 2014, Brazil, Fifa, World Cup
Last week's 50-day countdown to the Soccer World Cup was slightly more subdued than the big '100' back in February, but that's probably because so many hurdles have been cleared since then.
The consensus -- according to the government, the 2010 L...
Views: 510 | 1 Comment » | posted on Thursday, April 22nd, 2010 | Tags: 2010 World Cup, FIFA, LOC
It's no secret that South Africa is once again at a crossroads. Racial tensions between black and white South Africans have reached their highest levels since the 1993 assassination of South African Communist Party leader Chris Hani which threatened ...
Views: 439 | 1 Comment » | posted on Wednesday, April 7th, 2010 | Tags: 2010 World Cup, Africa, Rugby World Cup, soccer, South Africa
First, the bad news: With an estimated carbon footprint of 2,7 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent, the 2010 World Cup will have the largest carbon footprint of any major international sporting event (nine times higher than the World Cup in Germany in ...
Views: 330 | No Comments » | posted on Thursday, March 18th, 2010 | Tags: none
Any lingering doubts about South Africa's ability to host the 2010 Soccer World Cup have surely been laid to rest with this week's 100-day countdown festivities.
And the most pleasing aspect of this important milestone was not the magnificent new...
Views: 291 | 1 Comment » | posted on Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 | Tags: 2010 World Cup, Africa, Blatter, Danny Jordaan, FIFA, football, Mandela, South Africa, stadium, Valcke
Six years have now past since that magnificent moment in Zurich when Fifa President Sepp Blatter declared that SA had earned the rights to host the biggest party on the planet.
And with just over 100 days remaining before the kick-off to the 2010...
Views: 287 | 6 Comments » | posted on Thursday, February 25th, 2010 | Tags: 2010 World Cup, Africa, Bafokeng, Sepp Blatter, UK
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