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Blatter rates Confed Cup 7,5 out of 10

International football boss Sepp Blatter on Monday gave South Africa a 7,5 out of 10 rating for its organisation of the Confederations Cup.

Why PE lost the Confederations Cup

Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality allegedly shifted its stadium construction deadline four times, costing PE the right to host the Confederations Cup.

NUM tackles Fifa

The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has had enough of the 2010 stadium labour disputes and has now asked Fifa president Sepp Blatter to intervene. There have been a number of…

Rights commission tells Khoza to apologise, or else

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…

Why Irvin K has a point

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…

2010 committee riven by mistrust

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…