With less than four months remaining before the 2010 World Cup gets underway, South Africa's neighbours are finalising their preparations to ensure they are part and parcel of the biggest event of any kind to occur on the continent.
Sadly, Zimbab...
Views: 391 | 1 Comment » | posted on Thursday, February 18th, 2010 | Tags: none
2009 will be remembered as the year that South Africa staked its claim to hosting a successful 2010 World Cup.
Certainly, the past 12 months have marked an extraordinary turnaround in the preparations for this mega sporting event. Just a year ago...
Views: 312 | 1 Comment » | posted on Thursday, December 17th, 2009 | Tags: 2010 World Cup, Africa, FIFA, South Africa
Anyone doubting the enormity of the World Cup should have been swayed by the events of the past few days.
The deciding 2010 World Cup qualifier between Algeria and Egypt resulted in riots outside the Algerian embassy in Cairo with President Hosni...
Views: 305 | 3 Comments » | posted on Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 | Tags: 2010 World Cup, Blatter, Egypt, Ireland, Maradona, technology, television, Thierry Henry
This week marked the 20th anniversary of the unification of Germany, an event that symbolises some extraordinary parallels between the hosts of the 2006 and 2010 editions of the World Cup.
When Germany and South Africa slugged it out for the righ...
Views: 296 | 1 Comment » | posted on Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 | Tags: 2010 World Cup, apartheid, Berlin Wall, Fifa, Germany, Jordaan
Describing the East Rand as the heart and soul of South Africa, "crammed with spectacular natural beauty and cultural sophistication", the Sunday Times notes that the first sign that greets foreign visitors at OR Tambo International Airport is a warm...
Views: 227 | No Comments » | posted on Thursday, October 29th, 2009 | Tags: 2010 World Cup, Ekurhuleni, Gautrain, OR Tambo, Sunday Times
Despite the recent hysteria, there was much to admire about Joel Santana who took the plunge by taking the reins of a national team (for the first time) which had the added responsibility of hosting the 2010 World Cup.
Despite a shaky start to hi...
Views: 244 | 2 Comments » | posted on Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 | Tags: 2010 World Cup, Bafana Bafana, Confederations Cup, Joel Santana
For several years now, the relationship between Irvin Khoza and Danny Jordaan has been fraught with tension. They are, after all, the most formidable soccer administrators in the country and they have played a crucial role in securing South Africa th...
Views: 420 | 2 Comments » | posted on Friday, October 2nd, 2009 | Tags: Fifa, Jordaan, Khoza, Nematandani, Safa, World Cup
National coach Joel Santana found himself on the ropes this week when he was reportedly summoned to Safa headquarters to account for his team's poor run of results. For the record, Bafana Bafana have now recorded six losses in a row -- their worst ru...
Views: 422 | 3 Comments » | posted on Friday, September 18th, 2009 | Tags: Bafana, Parreira, Safa, Santana, World Cup
The key ingredients to ensure the successful hosting of a mega sporting event are security, state-of-the-art stadia, sufficient accommodation, the buy-in of the public and, of course, an efficient transport system.
In terms of South Africa's 2010...
Views: 195 | No Comments » | posted on Thursday, August 27th, 2009 | Tags: bus rapid transit, strike, taxi, World Cup
The appointment of a new chief justice, the ongoing Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe saga and a number of high-profile court cases may have dominated the legal headlines in recent weeks, but a dispute over a key-ring has served notice of thin...
Views: 219 | 3 Comments » | posted on Thursday, August 20th, 2009 | Tags: ambush marketing, Fifa, Germany, World Cup
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