South Africa is back in the headlines for all the wrong reasons. Just two weeks after the National Union of Mineworkers ended a national strike, which threatened to seriously disrupt several key 2010 construction projects, workers are at it again.
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Views: 143 | 2 Comments » | posted on Wednesday, July 29th, 2009 | Tags: 2010 World Cup, construction, SA Municipal Workers Union, strikes
We can all be forgiven for being apprehensive about the situation in Zimbabwe.
For many years, Africa and the rest of the world has witnessed its political and economic meltdown which spilled over into neighbouring states, casting a pall over muc...
Views: 161 | No Comments » | posted on Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 | Tags: Rufaro Stadium, Victoria Falls, World Cup 2010, Zimbabwe
There were so many magnificent moments during the 2009 Confederations Cup -- Mohamed Homos's 40th minute header which handed Egypt a famous victory over Italy, the injury-time heroics from Kiwi keeper Glen Moss against Iraq that secured Bafana a semi...
Views: 113 | No Comments » | posted on Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 | Tags: Confederations Cup, human element, Katlego Mphela, Mohamed Homos, replay
Five years have passed since that extraordinary moment in Zurich when Fifa President Sepp Blatter declared that South Africa had earned the rights to host the biggest party on the planet.
And with exactly one year remaining before the kick-off of...
Views: 176 | No Comments » | posted on Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 | Tags: Bafana Bafana, Confederations Cup, crime, media, Sepp Blatter, unity
In the dead of night, the centre of Durban is not for the faint-hearted. Like many CBDs around the globe, criminals use the cover of darkness to operate. And yet, on the night of November 25 2007, Durban was one the safest cities on the plant. The oc...
Views: 252 | 2 Comments » | posted on Thursday, May 28th, 2009 | Tags: 2010 World Cup, crime, development, Fifa, Khayelitsha, safety
Remember the good old stadiums from the bad old days? If any venue symbolised apartheid-era soccer in South Africa, it was the Rand Stadium tucked away between the mine dumps on the south side of Johannesburg.
Construction of the 15 000-seat...
Views: 117 | 2 Comments » | posted on Wednesday, May 20th, 2009 | Tags: apartheid, facelift, Rand Stadium, World Cup
African football is entering a critical period -- one that will determine whether the decision to host the World Cup on African soil for the first time was the correct one.
Firstly, final preparations are now under way for the Confederations Cup,...
Views: 127 | 1 Comment » | posted on Thursday, May 7th, 2009 | Tags: 2010 World Cup, Confederations Cup, Fifa, Jordaan, performance, Valcke
Take a bow South Africa. Four free and fair democratic elections on the trot and the country has cleared another significant hurdle en route to hosting the 2010 World Cup.
The gruelling election campaign which was frequently marred by political i...
Views: 168 | No Comments » | posted on Friday, April 24th, 2009 | Tags: election, Fifa, Germany, unity, World Cup, Zuma
A quiet revolution is building in South Africa ahead of the 2010 World Cup. Stroke by stroke, note by note, thousands of singers, painters and other artists are plying their trade with a strong focus on the event.
The KZN Gallery in Glenwood is c...
Views: 244 | 1 Comment » | posted on Thursday, April 9th, 2009 | Tags: 2010, art, industry, trade, World Cup
Shortly after the 2006 World Cup in Germany, a team of Fifa heavyweights visited the hosts of the next edition of the tournament in order to lay down the rules. South Africa, they told us, does not own the 2010 World Cup. Rather, it belongs to global...
Views: 347 | 1 Comment » | posted on Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 | Tags: Dalai Lama, Fifa, peace conference, World Cup
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