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One of the greatest legacies that the 2010 FIFA World Cup will leave is the magnificent new Soccer City Stadium that will host among other games, the opening game and the final. Like Wembley in England, this stadium will be an icon and lasting image that the world will have of the FIFA showpiece. Inspired [...]

It’s impossible not to see and hear nears about how the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) is imploding. At the heart of the matter is the R700 million the corporation has lost during the last financial year. The drama has included the resignation of the majority of the board members, the ongoing court dispute between [...]

Witbank now have a Premier Soccer League team in Mpumalanga Black Aces but unfortunately there are problems regarding the use of premier stadium in that city, the Witbank Stadium, otherwise known as the Johan Van Riebeeck Stadium. The cause of all the problems is the Pumas Rugby Union’s unwillingness to share this facility which is [...]

Just like many youngsters I grew up playing football in the township streets of Manzini in Swaziland. Football for most of us was real passion as we would play for hours till dark without worrying about food. Back then, at that innocent age, football was pure dedication without limit only for the love and passion [...]

The official opening of the FIFA Confederations Cup 2009 has silenced a lot of critics over whether or not South Africa is capable of successfully hosting an event like the World Cup. The opening ceremony presented an image of South Africa that will sell South Africa to any doubting Thomas. Congratulations to Lebo M – [...]

I still can’t believe that the first game of the 2010 FIFA World Cup will kick-off in exactly 363 days from now. This will be the big climax to a journey that begins in Johannesburg, this coming Sunday, when the FIFA Confederations Cup starts. From there onwards it will be Africa’s turn to be at [...]

Rich Mkhondo is a senior member of the Local Organising Committee of the Confed Cup and World Cup. He has been the LOC spokesman in a lot of the more recent interviews concerning these two tournaments therefore his job must be quite important. I caught a recent ETV News interview of his which left me [...]

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 [...]

The FIFA Local Organizing Committee (LOC) has failed dismally to execute an advertising campaign that matches the scale of the FIFA Confederations Cup. There’s now just one week to go until this tournament gets underway and yet the frequency of advertising has not increased substantially. A month or two ago the excuse we were given [...]

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