South African football referee Jerome Damon is living his dream. For the second time he has been selected to officiate at the Soccer World Cup.
Fifa hopes it will not see a repeat of Diego Maradona doping scandal, but if any players do get busted for drugs, Pieter van der Merwe will be the man
The Soccer World Cup was uniting SA, much like the 1995 world rugby victory helped break down racial barriers, said President Jacob Zuma on Sunday.
The North Korean World Cup squad held its fourth training session in South Africa on Saturday with foreign reporters yet to be allowed in.
Born in Mozambique and a former coach of the South African soccer side, Portugal’s Carlos Queiroz has flown to the rainbow nation countless times.
Katlego Mphela scored on 76 minutes as World Cup hosts South Africa edged fellow qualifiers Denmark 1-0 in a warm-up on Saturday.
As the Soccer World Cup nears, tourists and foreign businessmen spooked by South Africa’s crime rate are hiring bodyguards.
Côte d’Ivoire saw off Japan 2-0 in a pre-World Cup friendly on Friday — but captain Didier Drogba may miss the World Cup after being injured.
Good, bad or Benni, Carlos Alberto Parreira has made his final squad selection. <b>Phathisani Moyo</b> assesses the chosen 23.
Do a country’s democratic credentials influence its World Cup prospects?
Omission of Benni McCarthy from Bafana Bafana’s World Cup squad signals an end to the foreign-based prima donna.
There’s no need to be downbeat — the expected tourist flood to SA for the World Cup hasn’t materialised but South Africans can reap the benefits.
South African businesses have grown more worried about the direction of economic policy and the impact of above-inflation pay rises.
In just seven months back in charge of Bafana, coach Carlos Alberto Parreira has turned the dispirited side around.
Cabinet spent time this week worrying about the damage done if service delivery protests or xenophobic attacks take place during the Soccer World Cup.
The call by some artists to boycott the Soccer World Cup kick-off concert is ill-advised, government spokesperson Themba Maseko said on Thursday.
Bidvest Group said the World Cup was likely to boost earnings by a modest 1% to 2% as the number of expected visitors undershot previous estimates.
Injured Galatasaray forward Harry Kewell was included in Australia’s 23-man World Cup squad containing 14 veterans from Germany 2006.
Denmark will pose a much bigger test of Bafana Bafana’s World Cup credentials when the teams meet at the Super Stadium on Saturday.
Hundreds of thousands of viewers will be watching the World Cup kick-off on a pirate basis, and there’s not much that Fifa can do about it.
Fifa president Sepp Blatter said on Wednesday he hopes Nelson Mandela will attend the opening of the Soccer World Cup next week.
Marco Borriello and Giuseppe Rossi were axed from Italy’s 23-man squad for the Soccer World Cup on Tuesday, with Fabio Quagliarella the surprise pick.
Coaches put World Cup hopefuls out of their misery on Tuesday when they named their final squads, shattering dreams with a few surprise selections.
Mozambican police on Tuesday emphatically denied the existence of terrorist training camps in the country following claims published in a newspaper.
The World Cup would bring South Africans together to create the kind of country that Nelson Mandela would have wanted, Danny Jordaan said on Tuesday.
Theo Walcott was the shock casualty as England coach Fabio Capello named his final 23-man squad for the World Cup on Tuesday.
An artists’ union on Tuesday said it was mobilising a boycott of the World Cup kick-off concert to protest the large number of international artists.
Benni McCarthy has been chopped from the final Bafana Bafana squad that will represent South Africa at the Soccer World Cup.
Bafana Bafana notched their biggest win in international soccer when they outplayed minnows Guatemala 5-0 in a lop-sided World Cup
warm-up clash
The Soccer World Cup faces no terror threat at the moment, according to Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa.
Xenophobia may erupt in SA after the Soccer World Cup as jobs start becoming scarcer, a group of eminent global leaders said on Monday.
The government does not expect the media to be its "praise singers" over the Soccer World Cup, but urges them to report "objectively".