The fury that greeted the news that Zuma has fathered another child out of wedlock indicates that the tide of support may have reached its limit.
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/ 31 January 2010
Spokespersons have not been available to comment on the report about President Jacob Zuma allegedly fathering a child with Irvin Khoza’s daughter.
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/ 15 January 2010
With the Fifa World Cup looming for South Africa, these are the men battling for control of local footballs future after the global showpiece.
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/ 11 January 2010
The attack on Togo’s soccer team in Angola should be used as a yardstick for the Soccer World Cup security measures, Irvin Khoza said on Monday.
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/ 14 December 2009
An uneasy truce reigns over South African soccer ahead of the World Cup, but there are reports of a ticking time bomb in the game’s administration.
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/ 28 September 2009
New president of Safa Kirsten Nematandani said on Monday he was not concerned over speculation that his position could be challenged in court.
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/ 27 September 2009
It was a day and night of drama which ended when outsider Kirsten Nematandani was elected unopposed as the new president of the Safa.
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/ 9 September 2009
Fifa has vowed to monitor the upcoming SA Football Association (Safa) elections to ensure they do not effect preparations for the Soccer World Cup.
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/ 4 September 2009
The campaign to become the president of Safa is being waged in the corridors of power, but an air of civility has stifled public controversy.
While presidents near and far are desperately clinging to power, Molefi Oliphant, is meekly relinquishing his position as Safa president.
Strikes at 2010 World Cup stadiums will continue countrywide on Thursday as opposing parties prepare for another round of wage talks.
The Confederations Cup has served to dispel any fears or doubts over SA’s ability to stage what promises to be a memorable 2010 World Cup.
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/ 16 February 2009
Durban’s Moses Mabhida stadium’s 350m-long arch was unveiled at a vibrant celebration on Saturday night in Durban.
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/ 16 September 2008
The cheapest 2010 World Cup ticket will cost R140. This was announced on Tuesday by Irvin Khoza, chairperson of the 2010 local organising committee.
It is 10 years since the South Africa Football Association (Safa) first announced its intention to host the sport’s biggest showpiece, the World Cup. Today, the idea, first mooted by former Safa president Solomon ”Stix” Morewa, is less than 740 days from being realised. The Mail & Guardian tracks the history of South Africa’s biggest sporting fantasy.
Regardless of how they fare in this weekend’s final matches of the football season, SuperSport United and Ajax Cape Town have a lot to be proud of. Both have had a season made in heaven. Considering that both lost influential coaches — SuperSport’s Pitso Mosimane joined the national team brains trust and Ajax’s Muhsin Ertugral went to Kaizer Chiefs — they were expected to struggle.
The South African economy could see a turnover in excess of R40-billion during the Soccer World Cup finals, which kick off at the new Soccer City in Johannesburg in June 2010. In an interview on Wednesday, chairperson of the 2010 local organising committee Irvin Khoza was upbeat that South Africa will host the best World Cup in history.
Conventional wisdom has it that this weekend’s Soweto Derby will be the worst since the PSL was founded. For the first time in years both Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates are having their worst seasons simultaneously. Chiefs are ninth on the log, two places higher than their rivals from across the Orlando railway line.
Bafana Bafana’s new coach, Joel Santana, will have to earn his huge salary when he arrives in Johannesburg next week to take over from fellow Brazilian Carlos Alberto Parreira. Santana was warned by world football governing body Fifa that it expected Bafana to shine at both the Confederations Cup next year and the 2010 World Cup finals.
In the samba spirit that the South African Football Association seems to have been seized by, and to welcome Joel Santana, the Brazilian coach, South Africans now have an opportunity to convert their names to Brazilian ones. After all, one Brazilian turn deserves another.
The South African government will spend ”upwards” of R30-billion on the 2010 Soccer World Cup, according to a report released on Tuesday. Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, who received the report, admitted that ”in some instance” initial budget estimations were conservative.
The issue of race has opened an ugly wound on the South African landscape.
The South African Cabinet has condemned recent incidents of racism and sexism around the country, saying they have the potential to undermine South Africa’s Constitution, a government spokesperson said on Thursday. ”The transgressors must know that there will be legal consequences,” government communications head Themba Maseko said.
Reitz hostel, at the centre of a racist video controversy, on Wednesday apologised unconditionally to all students and other hostels. Reitz house father and head of hostel Christo Dippenaar said the whole hostel and its house committee had discussed the video and had decided to offer an unconditional apology for the video.
South Africa 2010 Soccer World Cup chief Irvin Khoza apologised unreservedly in a statement on Wednesday for using the word ”kaffir” towards a black journalist. In a formal statement issued through the South African Human Rights Commission, Khoza said he had decided on this action after seeing the University of the Free State (UFS) racist video on the news.
Newspaper columnist Jon Qwelane on Wednesday at a public forum organised by the South African Human Rights Commission refused to apologise for calling a former colleague a ”coconut” for objecting to a recent, blacks-only Forum of Black Journalists event. The forum discussion was frank and at times heated.
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/ 22 February 2008
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.”
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/ 21 February 2008
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.
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/ 18 February 2008
The Fifa local organising committee (LOC) on Monday rubbished claims of divisions within the local 2010 organising body on Monday. LOC chairperson Irvin Khoza said the focus should be on the 2010 project and not his relationship with committee CEO Danny Jordaan.
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/ 17 February 2008
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”.
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/ 18 January 2008
The aftermath of the bitter contest for African National Congress (ANC) leadership has spilled over to the 2010 Soccer World Cup local organising committee (LOC) boardroom. The ANC Youth League, which helped Jacob Zuma defeat Thabo Mbeki for party presidency, now wants Mbeki’s confidant, Minister in the Presidency Essop Pahad, out of the LOC.
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/ 26 November 2007
South Africa passed the first big test of its ability to stage the continent’s first World Cup finals with a successful preliminary draw that gets the campaign to reach the 2010 finals off in earnest. South Africa will be thankful they do not have to qualify as hosts. The African part of the draw doubles as a qualifying competition for the 2010 African Nations Cup.