Authorities fear the Soccer World Cup could draw in child traffickers hoping to cash in on the fanfare around the games.
Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk said on Tuesday that SA has enough accommodation to deal with visitors to the 2010 World Cup.
Mexico’s coach Javier Aguirre expects a tough match when his team faces Bafana Bafana in the opening match of 2010 Fifa World Cup.
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.
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”.
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.
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.
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.
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.
An estimated one million World Cup tickets were made available on Saturday amid fears not enough tickets were being bought by South Africans.
The draw for the Soccer World Cup was held in Cape Town on Friday. Here is the complete schedule.
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.
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.
Imagine what Bafana Bafana players will do with R220-million after winning the 2010 Fifa World Cup?
SA soccer and tourism officials are warning hotels, airlines and restaurants not to scare off tourists by hiking prices during the Soccer World Cup.
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.
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”.
President Jacob Zuma on Tuesday urged South Africans to be nice to the fans who flock here next year for the World Cup.
Come this Friday evening and the rugby-mad city of Cape Town will be temporarily transformed into the football capital of the world.
Soccer World Cup organising head Danny Jordaan on Monday described South Africa’s safety record in hosting major sports events as ”second to none”.
