We continue to hear of reports of bribery and corruption in Fifa. Why should it be immune? And like I always say, where there's smoke there's fire. We have Mr Jack Warner who's being supported at home, but who resigned from Fifa, which means we will ...
The "roaring" 1920s saw the US economy explode in a manner befitting an octopus encircling an unsuspecting prey. Driven by Europe's bankruptcy after World War I, the Marshall Plan ensured that apart from propping up capitalist states in the Old World...
The Hunter S Thompson title for his 1972 collection of articles, "Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail", told of a US presidential election which came at a time of change in western popular culture. Vietnam was still raging, the Cold War was st...
We have entered the knock-out stages of the greatest tournament (arguably) on earth. The halfway mark is disappearing in the distance, so here are some of the best, and worst, things that have been a part of this World Cup so far:
The best:
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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...
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...
By Millington Gumbo
A couple of things intrigue me in life. Politics is one, history is another, but it is football which trumps them all.
Football is the ultimate meritocracy wherein skills and teamwork and not money or privilege determine th...
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...
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...
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...
