The US president has hinted that nations who oppose his country’s bid for the World Cup could face political repercussions
We may have struggled, but here are ten things that President Jacob Zuma did rather well.
‘It’s not often that people who are in his position of status do something like that’
David Smith reflects on a Machiavellian Jacob Zuma, a warped Robert Mugabe, and the people of South Africa and the continent who won his admiration.
With the two year anniversary of the 2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup approaching, ‘Dancing in the Streets’ takes South Africans on a trip down memory lane.
South Africa will not to allow agents to appoint referees for friendly fixtures after allegations of match-fixing at pre-2010 World Cup warm-up games.
It is 8pm and amateur teams of youngsters drawn from one of Nairobi’s toughest slums are locked in a five-a-side soccer match.
Ghana World Cup hero-cum-villain Asamoah Gyan was crowned BBC African Footballer of the Year.
After billions spent on stadiums now lying empty and fewer tourists than hoped, SA marks six months from the kick-off of the World Cup on Saturday.
An analysis of the latest foreign tourist arrival statistics shows that about 400 000 tourists visited South Africa during the Soccer World Cup.
<i>Africa United</i> is a road movie about five children who travel 4 800km to reach the Soccer World Cup in South Africa.
The local organising committee (LOC) of the Soccer World Cup is digging in its heels over a R90-million bill from the ministry of police.
England’s failed footballers are lucky that their ignominious World Cup exit was met with less more than a public mauling by the media.
Footballers subjected to six-hour excoriation on stage for "betraying" North Korea and Kim Jong-il’s son and heir.
