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/ 21 September 2011
A ban on bagpipes at the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand has knocked the wind out of the Scotland team.
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/ 29 September 2010
The vuvuzelas that became the droning soundtrack to the Soccer World Cup in SA are to make a comeback at the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi.
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/ 6 September 2010
The vuvuzela may have made it into the <i>Oxford Dictionary</i>, but you may find little use for it beyond the football stadium.
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/ 3 September 2010
Loved and loathed in equal measure, the drone of the vuvuzela will resonate in India for the first time at the Commonwealth Games in October.
The vuvuzela, which became the sound of the Soccer World Cup, has won an entry in the latest edition of the <i>Oxford Dictionary of English</i>.
English Premier League clubs Arsenal, Tottenham and West Ham have banned controversial vuvuzela horns from their stadiums this season.
Johannesburg street sellers were raking it in at the start of the World Cup, but now that Bafana has crashed out, business has slumped.
Czech public television network CT is putting a sock into vuvuzelas at Soccer World Cup games in South Africa.
Tournament teeters between triumph and disaster, not quite living up to expectations of the evangelists, but not fulfilling dire prophecies either.
A Cape Town woman who injured her throat at a vuvuzela blowing competition said on Friday that she was on the mend.
The vuvuzelas providing the ear-splitting soundtrack for the Soccer World Cup in South Africa are proving a gold mine for manufacturers in China.
British supermarket chain Sainsbury said on Wednesday that its World Cup goods — and vuvuzelas — are selling very well.
The BBC is examining whether it could transmit a "vuvuzela free" version of its Soccer World Cup coverage after a flood of complaints from viewers.
Makers of the vuvuzela plastic horns that have become a talking point at the Soccer World Cup have come up with a toned-down version.
To coaches and players they could be a curse, to South Africans they might be a weapon that helps them overcome one of the lowest ratings for a host.
Nelson Mandela, home advantage and vuvuzelas are among the elements South Africa hope will help avoid the shame of a first-round World Cup exit.
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/ 15 January 2010
The vuvuzela is common in Botswana, though largely still confined to the soccer pitch.
It used to be visible only at football matches, but the metre-long horn known as the vuvuzela has grown in popularity beyond South Africa
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/ 17 November 2009
Japan’s football chief has raised the decibel level against vuvuzelas at next year’s World Cup.
The evolution of South Africa’s beloved vuvuzela is upon us. So it is out with the old, and in with the – kuduzela?
The Austrian professional football league on Thursday imposed a stadium ban on vuvuzelas, because they might be used as missiles.
The issue of the vuvuzela once again caused an uproar during the Confed Cup last month.
They came, the supreme exponents of this art form. Note, art form — because that is exactly what football is.
You either love them or you hate them, but whichever way you lean it seems certain that the vuvuzela is going to take the World Cup by storm.
The vuvuzela is symbolic of SA soccer. If Fifa was happy to give the World Cup to an African country, then everyone must deal with the consequences.
Soccer fans may not only need a ticket to see their favourite teams play in the 2010 World Cup — earplugs should also come in handy.