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/ 13 December 2009
Authorities fear the Soccer World Cup could draw in child traffickers hoping to cash in on the fanfare around the games.
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/ 8 December 2009
Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk said on Tuesday that SA has enough accommodation to deal with visitors to the 2010 World Cup.
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/ 7 December 2009
Mexico’s coach Javier Aguirre expects a tough match when his team faces Bafana Bafana in the opening match of 2010 Fifa World Cup.
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/ 6 December 2009
South Africa needs to build four world-class youth soccer academies in the major centres if Bafana Bafana are to become a force in soccer again.
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/ 6 December 2009
The Football for Hope centre in Cape Town — one of 20 across Africa — is out to teach kids about more than just the ”beautiful game”.
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/ 5 December 2009
The 2010 draw has handed varied fortunes to top teams, not only in the strength of their opponents, but in how many games they will play at altitude.
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/ 5 December 2009
Bafana Bafana will have to cope with two massive problems ahead of the Soccer World Cup, and there’s little that coach Carlos Alberto Parreira can do.
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/ 5 December 2009
Two foreign television crews were robbed in Cape Town on Friday ahead of the draw for the World Cup finals, a news report said on Saturday.
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/ 5 December 2009
Bafana Bafana’s Carlos Alberto Parreira put on a brave face but could not hide the fact that SA will have their backs to the wall at the World Cup.
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/ 5 December 2009
An estimated one million World Cup tickets were made available on Saturday amid fears not enough tickets were being bought by South Africans.
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/ 4 December 2009
The draw for the Soccer World Cup was held in Cape Town on Friday. Here is the complete schedule.
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/ 4 December 2009
South Africa will play Mexico in the opening game of the Soccer World Cup. South Africa is placed at 86th, while Mexico is ranked 15th.
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/ 4 December 2009
The global view of Africa will be changed by the Soccer World Cup, whether or not an African team wins, former Netherlands captain Ruud Gullit said.
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/ 4 December 2009
Imagine what Bafana Bafana players will do with R220-million after winning the 2010 Fifa World Cup?
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/ 4 December 2009
SA soccer and tourism officials are warning hotels, airlines and restaurants not to scare off tourists by hiking prices during the Soccer World Cup.
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/ 4 December 2009
When they had pulled their faces off the wire fences and returned to their shacks, the people of Khayletisha must have thought it had been a dream.
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/ 3 December 2009
As the World Cup trophy arrived in Cape Town this week, Danny Jordaan, the architect of next year’s tournament, declared ”the death of doubt”.
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/ 2 December 2009
President Jacob Zuma on Tuesday urged South Africans to be nice to the fans who flock here next year for the World Cup.
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/ 1 December 2009
Come this Friday evening and the rugby-mad city of Cape Town will be temporarily transformed into the football capital of the world.
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/ 30 November 2009
Soccer World Cup organising head Danny Jordaan on Monday described South Africa’s safety record in hosting major sports events as ”second to none”.
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/ 30 November 2009
Once a headache for the local organising committee, the 10 South African stadiums for the Soccer World Cup are now set to be ready on time.
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/ 28 November 2009
Africa’s first Soccer World Cup will generate 2,75m tonnes of emissions, one of the biggest environmental impacts of any sporting event in history.
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/ 26 November 2009
Hosts South Africa are desperate to emerge from the doldrums to ensure there will be local interest to add to the atmosphere at next year’s World Cup.
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/ 25 November 2009
Football governing body Fifa and South African media are locked in a stand-off over restrictive terms and conditions imposed by Fifa.
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/ 25 November 2009
Some time over the next six months, Miriam Vambe hopes to be boarding a plane for the first time, direction South Africa.
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/ 25 November 2009
Visitors to Cape Town who are worried about becoming victims of the high crime rate could find themselves instead robbed by baboons.
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/ 24 November 2009
I see that Danny Jordaan has said that ”South Africans and Africans must support the continent’s soccer teams during the 2010 World Cup.”
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/ 23 November 2009
South Africans and Africans must support the continent’s soccer teams during the 2010 World Cup, local organising committee CEO Danny Jordaan says.
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/ 21 November 2009
Algeria’s foreign minister summoned Egypt’s ambassador on Friday to reject accusations that his government failed to protect Egyptians.
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/ 21 November 2009
SA plans to create special courts dedicated to handling crimes committed during the Soccer World Cup, aiming to speed up the judicial process.
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/ 21 November 2009
A day that began with Fifa ruling out a replay of the France vs Ireland World Cup play-off ended, after pleas, denials and opinions from all quarters.
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/ 19 November 2009
A lack of goals continues to haunt hosts South Africa as the 2010 World Cup countdown reaches the 200-day mark on Sunday.