The M&G has brought a court application against the World Cup's local Organising Committee over its refusal to release tender documents.

International football boss Sepp Blatter on Monday gave South Africa a 7,5 out of 10 rating for its organisation of the Confederations Cup.

Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality allegedly shifted its stadium construction deadline four times, costing PE the right to host the Confederations Cup.

The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has had enough of the 2010 stadium labour disputes and has now asked Fifa president Sepp Blatter to intervene. There have been a number of strikes over wage disputes by construction workers working on the Green Point stadium in Cape Town, Durban's Moses Mabhida stadium and the Mbombela stadium in Nelspruit.

Chairperson of the 2010 Local Organising Committee Irvin Khoza has a week to apologise for using the word "kaffir" at a media conference or he will be taken to court. During the conference Khoza told a journalist to: "Stop thinking like a kaffir because you are contriving and misleading about something that is not there."

Let us not beat about the bush here. The term kaffir is a word imposed on black people by racist whites. When Irvin Khoza accuses other blacks of "behaving like kaffirs", he is thus accusing them of acting in keeping with standards set by the white racists.

Infighting and mistrust are tearing the 2010 Local Organising Committee (LOC) apart, a media report said on Sunday. Key players in the LOC -- tasked with organising Africa's first Fifa Soccer World Cup -- were barely talking to each other, while chief executive Danny Jordaan has been labelled a "control freak".