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Believe it or not the South African Revenue Services (SARS) wants to make their own piece of history – they want to tax foreign soccer players at both the FIFA Confed Cup and the 2010 World Cup. This will be the first time that SARS has ever embarked on such a quest. Apparently the legislation [...]

The first of the brand new stadiums being built for the 2010 World Cup has now been completed a full year ahead of the tournament. I’m referring to the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth. This is a very big psychological milestone for preparations for 2010 as it will hopefully ‘unblock’ all the obstacles [...]

South Africa is indeed a land of contrasts. Sections of this country are third world and others are first world. The country has just joined an elite group that have had the privilege of hosting the FIFA World Cup – no mean feat at all. Our football enjoys sponsorship which is way above the level [...]

In recent years the major sponsors in our local game have tended to be the big telecommunications firms and banks. For some reason the breweries are being outclassed in the sponsorship game. Being in the midst of an economic downturn our clubs and football association will have to be a lot more insightful in order [...]

Homework Class, Pretoria – Has anyone else had problems doing their 2010 sums? I’m having a bit of trouble with the following

Kaizer Motaung has just appointed the Serb Vladimir Vermezovic as Head Coach of Kaizer Chiefs. He had vowed to look overseas

The World Cup is going to spread the game around the country so that every province benefits economically from the injection

We are approaching the climax of the soccer season globally with a lot of leagues titles decided already.

A lot of South Africans don’t feel any qualms at all about buying counterfeit goods, otherwise colloquially known as “Fong Kongs”.

Over the past year a hectic fall in commodity prices saw soccer club owners like Patrice Motsepe of Mamelodi Sundowns FC lose

The winners of the ABSA PSL win R10 million; the winners of the MTN Super 8 win R8 million; the winners of the Nedbank Cup win R6 million and the winners of the Telkom Knockout win R4.25 million. That’s a whopping R28, 25 million total annual prize money for all the official PSL tournaments.