A shortage of tickets rather than high prices will hamper Sooth Africans who want to see any of the 2010 Soccer World Cup matches, chief executive of the local organising committee Danny Jordaan said on Tuesday. ”There will be more than three million tickets in total, but … we would be lucky if we have one million of those available for South Africans,” Jordaan said.
The 2010 Soccer World Cup has become the benchmark against which everything in South Africa is measured, and this has forced the local organising committee to answer some difficult questions, its chief executive, Danny Jordaan, said on Tuesday. The reason is that 2010 is not just about 90 minutes of football, but is part of the transformation of the country, Jordaan said.
A delegation of Zimbabwean human rights lawyers is in Mozambique to seek support from civil society in that country to pressure Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to introduce political reforms, Vista News reports. This was revealed by Radio Mozambique in a report on Tuesday quoting the leader of the Zimbabwean lawyers’ delegation, Tafadzwa Mugabe.
American Michael Phelps smashed Ian Thorpe’s 200m freestyle world record to win gold at the Swimming World Championships in Melbourne on Tuesday. Phelps left his rivals in his wash as he raced to a stunning victory in one minute 43,86 seconds, wiping 0,20 seconds off the previous record of 1:44,06 set by Australian Thorpe at the 2001 world championships in Japan.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Tuesday warned Iran that efforts to secure the release of 15 sailors would enter a ”different phase” if diplomatic efforts failed. Britain has sought to keep up pressure on Iran, which has rejected growing international calls for their release.
A curatorship order against troubled asset-management firm Fidentia was made final by a Cape High Court judge on Tuesday. The company was placed under provisional curatorship at the beginning of last month after a Financial Services Board probe reported alleged misappropriation of hundreds of millions of rands.
The outgoing United States ambassador to Iraq on Monday delivered a blunt farewell message to Iraq’s leadership, saying the Bush administration’s patience was wearing thin and urging them to stem the bloodshed. Zalmay Khalilzad said: "Success requires Iraq and Iraqi leaders to make the compromises necessary to reduce the sources of violence."
Embattled businesswoman Dr Danisa Baloyi has resigned as a director of both Metrofile Holdings and Set Point Technology Holdings with immediate effect, it was announced on Tuesday. Baloyi was recently embroiled in a war of words with Absa over her removal as a non-executive director of the banking group.
The owners of <i>Life</i> magazine, which practically invented photojournalism, killed off their publication for the third and possibly final time on Monday. Time Incorporated, which publishes <i>Life</i>, blamed the closure on "the decline in the newspaper business" and poor advertising predictions.
The JSE remained higher shortly before noon on Tuesday buoyed by a turnaround on the United States equities market overnight and buying appetite for resources stocks. By 11.53am, the all-share index was up 0,54% thanks to a 1,09% rise in resources. The gold-mining index was up 0,37% while the platinum-mining index fell 0,46%.