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Bafana Bafana coach Hugo Broos announced his final 26-member squad for the 2026 FIFA World Cup at the Sefako Makgatho Presidential Guest House in Pretoria on Wednesday. Photo: SAFA

Bafana Bafana: A squad built for more than just participation

The current squad stands out as one of the most impressive in recent memory. Its strength draws heavily from the domestic powerhouse clubs

Victory: During and after the 2010 World Cup, South Africa rose into the top 10 countries globally that people
most wanted to visit. Photo: Marcello Casal Jr/ABr

Prosperity agenda: What SA needs to reach top 10

History shows that when South Africans unite behind a shared national mission, extraordinary outcomes become possible. Our country has enormous potential but unlocking it…

His Excellency President Cyril Ramaphosa at the G20 Leaders’ Summit.  GCIS. Photo: File

South Africa’s G20 coup de grâce

By the summit’s end, Ramaphosa emerged with an elevated global profile

Own goal: Safa president Danny Jordaan made what he called a ‘payment’ to football development. He is now charged with fraud between 2014 and 2018. Photo: Alex Grimm/Getty Images

Danny Jordaan: The dream sours

In this second of a two-part series, Luke Alfred looks at the fall of Danny Jordaan, previously lauded as the champion of football in post-apartheid South Africa

Own goal: Safa president Danny Jordaan made what he called a ‘payment’ to football development. He is now charged with fraud between 2014 and 2018. Photo: Alex Grimm/Getty Images

Tracking the amiable Mr Jordaan

In this, the first of a two-part series, Luke Alfred looks at the rise of Danny Jordaan, the champion of football in post-apartheid South Africa

North West director of public prosecutions Moipone Noko has tendered her resignation amid lingering fallout from discredited decisions she took on high-profile cases while holding the same post in KwaZulu-Natal.

Noko quits as North West prosecutions head after hearing she was to face an inquiry

The resignation of the North West director of public prosecutions comes as Panday goes to trial and Booysen sues the state

(Mail & Guardian)

Editorial: Let’s inspire the world … again

South Africa was the first to welcome the World Cup to our beautiful continent. In these troubled Covid-19 times it’s worth reminding ourselves of that achievement.

With the memories still so vivid, it feels surreal to think that June will mark 10 years since Bafana first kicked things off in Soccer City.
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10 years on: The legacy of the 2010 World Cup

In the first part of our new series, we take a look at the goal that has played on loop in our heads and on TV channels for the last decade

Franck Ribery walks across the training area with his smartphone before the start of a training session of his club in the morning. (Peter Kneffel/dpa/Getty Images)

Bayern Munich hand Ribery ‘heavy fine’ for angry Tweetstorm

The punishment comes after Ribery lashed out at critics in a string of angry posts on Twitter and Instagram on Saturday

Implicated: Joe Mojapelo allegedly irregularly hired a marketing a communications firm when he worked on the Ekurhuleni 2010 World Cup project

Tainted officials get new jobs

Ekurhuleni has reappointed two senior officials who have been implicated in corrupt World Cup deals

Jordaan was arrested on Wednesday on charges of fraud and theft. (File photo)

Jordaan re-elected SAFA president

Danny Jordaan received 234 of 246 votes at the meeting in Johannesburg, SAFA said

Commissioner Mmamonnye Ngobeni

Suspended KZN police commissioner loses bid to be reinstated

KZN police commissioner Mmamonnye Ngobeni has been suspended for almost two years over allegations she had a "cosy relationship" with Thoshan Panday

Tradition: Xhosa initiate Fezikhaya Tselane

A letter to my Xhosa fathers and brothers

"I am a Xhosa woman who is raising a Xhosa boy. If this is your manhood, madoda, keep it. Your priorities are very skewed".

Some ANC insiders in the province have previously told the M&G that President Cyril Ramaphosa’s second term will most likely be supported by all four factions, with some saying that this will also be contingent on Ramaphosa bringing back David Mabuza as his running mate.

Regulators must show their teeth

Statutory bodies have to redeem themselves given that so many executives walk away from scandals

“We must never give him space; we gave Zuma space for nine years and look what he did.”

World Cup probe dogs Mojapelo

He quit during a probe and red flags were raised when he was rehired by Ekurhuleni

World Cup stadium construction cartel gets its comeuppance

Those construction firms that did not accept culpability and settle when accused of collusive tendering now face an unforgiving Competition Tribunal.

Sam Neill as João Havelange and Tim Roth as Sepp Blatter in a scene from ‘United Passions’.

Red card for film that glorifies Fifa

We sit through the "cringeworthy, self-aggrandising" Fifa-funded film "United Passions", so you won’t have to.

Was World Cup 2010 worth it?

Five years on, experts weigh up the true value of South Africa hosting the scandal-plagued football World Cup tournament.

No evidence of SA’s Fifa $10m in Trinidad

Putting money into a football centre, expecting to develop the sport, would have represented a staggering lack of due diligence about its destination.

Equipped: Tawana Kupe, the University of Pretoria’s new vice-chancellor and principal, may be charming and funny, but he’s serious about his new job and knows what he wants to achieve. (Oupa Nkosi)

The global web of Fifa’s corruption allegations

Your interactive map to all the alleged players in Fifa’s corruption scandal, from Australia and South Africa to Germany and the Cayman Islands.