"I don’t know how many people lifted me off my seat and threw me off the train," said Reason Wandi, a traumatised 26-year-old Zimbabwean.
Jo’burg’s waste management company, Pikitup, is bleeding millions in a contract with a company booted out of a separate R28-million municipal tender.
Some in Cape Town needed only the exit of Bafana Bafana from the tournament last week Tuesday to begin the xenophobic hatred.
Two people are especially interested in the Brett Kebble murder trial, due to start on July 26: Brett’s father, Roger, and Piet Byleveld.
World Cup chief organiser Danny Jordaan is not the only member of his family to benefit from the tournament.
The senior official who blocked the importation of rare Zambian sable antelope in a deal backed by the agriculture minister, is facing demotion.
Agriculture Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson flexed her muscles to push for the import of antelope for a company linked to an aide’s boyfriend.
Tensions are running high in Cape Town over the city’s apparent relocation of poor and homeless people to Blikkiesdorp on the Cape Flats.
Mpumalanga provincial authorities started building the province’s 2010 stadium on the 118ha piece of land two years ago without actually owning it.
Three of Mpumalanga’s most influential MECs met Matsafeni community leaders in a series of secret meetings last week in a bid to convince them to sign away land for a 2010 World Cup stadium. The procinve is already irregularly building a R1-billion stadium on the Matsafeni’s 118ha farm just outside the provincial capital, Nelspruit, after secretly ”buying” the land for just R1 last year.