PROJECT 2010 - Preparing South Africa for the 2010 FIFA World Cup™

Project 2010 - A Twenty Ten Media and Marketing Initiative

PREPARING SOUTH AFRICA FOR THE WORLD

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World Cup stadiums are cash cows – 29/11/2010

Danny Jordaan says South African soccer is missing out on a golden opportunity to generate income from World Cup venues. He says authorities must create conditions under which stadiums can generate daily revenue. He cited Soccer City’s failure to capitalise on the Spanish tourists who flock to the site where Andres Iniesta’s solitary strike secured Spain’s maiden World Cup triumph. ’Why don’t we sell them a Spain or a Bafana jersey, a tiny piece of the pitch, a meal, the 2010 World Cup memorabilia?’ He called on municipalities to change regulations to create a more commercial environment at the cauldrons built for the World Cup.

Full Sunday Times report

Jordaan up for top SAFA post - 22/11/2010

LOC CE Danny Jordaan has been nominated unopposed as fourth vice president of the South African Football Association. Sport24 reports that he will be officially elected at SAFA’s annual general meeting in Johannesburg on December 4. The SAFA membership will be in Johannesburg from December 3 to attend the SAFA Awards where the federation will honour various people for their contribution to the development of the beautiful game in South Africa. Sowetan can reveal that Jordaan has already signed the acceptance form to become the third elected SAFA vice president after Mandla Mazibuko and Chief Mwelo Nonkonyana.

Full Sport24 report

World Cup’s labour hangover – 21/10/2010World

Former employees of the 2010 local organising committee have accused the committee of shoddy treatment and failing to pay promised post-tournament bonuses. A month before the World Cup, the committee’s CEO, Danny Jordaan reportedly said that the ’2010 team’ could expect big bonuses after the soccer fest. Committee spokesman Jermaine Craig said the delay in paying the bonuses was because the committee was still appraising performances and the employees should receive their bonuses by Wednesday.

Full report in The Times

80% of stadiums fine, says Jordaan – 07/10/2010

South Africa does not plan to demolish any of its World Cup stadiums nor will any of them turn into neglected ’white elephants’, Danny Jordaan, said the chief executive of the 2010 tournament. Sport24 reports that Jordaan, speaking at the ’Leaders In Football’ business conference at Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge ground, said that of the 10 stadiums which staged matches during the World Cup, eight were expected to flourish by being used for soccer and rugby.

Full Sport24 report

Will WC cops get paid? – 06/09/2010

The LOC is refusing to be drawn on when and if it will pay the Police Ministry R90-million for the hundreds of its members deployed when private security guards went on strike during the 2010 World Cup, notes a report in The Star. Answering questions in Parliament this week, Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa said 1 284 extra police officers would have to be paid for 31 days of additional work. About 30 000 of the 44 000 police deployed during the World Cup had been paid just over R300m extra for overtime, subsistence and meals, among other things.

Full report in The Star

LOC express gratitude to GFA – 27/08/2010

The 2010 World Cup LOC has expressed its appreciation to the President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) Kwesi Nyantakyi and the entire sport body for Ghana’s participation at the World Cup finals. nGhana’s Black Stars were one of the 32 finalists at the competition and finished at the last-eight stage, notes a Peace FM report. The LOC were happy with the contributions made by the Ghanaian sport body which contributed to the tournament’s success.

Full Peace FM report

WC volunteers not paid – 03/08/2010

The majority of 2010 FIFA World Cup volunteers have still not been paid the R100 a day stipend owed to them by the Local Organising Committee, notes a News24 report. According to Onke Mjo, manager of the volunteer programme for the 2010 LOC, 10 000 out of 15 000 volunteers have not received their stipends. The main reason for this was the large amount of volunteers that worked during the 2010 World Cup, she said. Also, stipends are paid out on a stadium to stadium basis. ’We gave volunteers their First National Bank cards after the close of each venue,’ said Mjo.

Full report on the News24 site

CFO in a stable condition – 29/07/2010

LOC chief financial officer Farouk Seedat was shot in the abdomen and a thigh by one of the two men who broke into his Gallo Manor, Sandton, house two days ago. The Star notes that he is in a stable condition in hospital. According to Sandton police spokesperson Kym Cloete, the men tried to force Seedat into the house, but his wife pushed the panic button. Two shots were fired before the men fled. They didn’t manage to steal anything. Cloete said they were still investigating how the men had managed to get into the complex.  

Full report in The Star

Jordaan for president – 26/07/2010for

Danny Jordaan will contest Issa Hayatou for the presidency of the Confederation of African Football, notes a Sport24 report. According to the South African Football Association, Jordaan’s name will be put forward ahead of the 2011 CAF general elections. SAFA vice-president Mwelo Nonkonyana says his organisation have lofty ideals about improving soccer in Africa and feel that Jordaan is the right man to oversee their vision.

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Jordaan joins FIFA inspection team - 21/07/2010

2010 Local Organising Committee (LOC) head Danny Jordaan has joined the Fifa World Cup inspection team. He accepted a commission from Fifa to join its inspection team to run the rule over prospective 2018 and 2022 World Cup venues in Australia, Japan, Russia, England, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Holland and the United States. He leaves for Australia on Saturday and will be in and out of the country during the next couple of months while on Fifa business, he said in a telephone interview.

Full Mail & Guardian Online report

Jordaan, Khoza ’make peace’ - 26/06/2010

2010 Local Organising Committee (LOC) chairperson Irvin Khoza and CEO Danny Jordaan appear to have kissed and made up in the wake of an article which appeared in the Mail&Guardian on Friday. The two were quite reconciliatory in their responses to City Press. Jordaan said he did not want to comment on the article because he was dealing with the newspaper concerned. ’All I can say is that I have worked with Khoza and Molefi Oliphant (the former Safa president) for the past 16 years and I am very happy with what we have achieved.’

Full City Press report

LOC to pay over drivers bungle – 25/06/2010

The LOC will pay thousands of rand to a group of drivers it had contracted to transport one of the teams for a job they did not do. The Sowetan reports that one of those contracted was Moshiashi Motumo of Honeydew, Johannesburg, who was assigned to work with the New Zealand team. Motumo and four other drivers were supposed to start work on June 6, ferrying members of the team to stadiums, training sessions and hotels. Their contract stipulates that they would start work ’effective from June 6 ... until the team you are allocated to is knocked out of the soccer spectacular’.

Full report in The Sowetan Full

Jordaan’s brother cashes in on 2010 – 25/06/2010

World Cup chief organiser Danny Jordaan is not the only member of his family to benefit from the tournament. The Mail & Guardian has established that a company belonging to Jordaan’s younger brother, Andrew, was appointed by Match Event Services, the tournament’s exclusive provider of hospitality packages, to act as its liaison in Port Elizabeth for R200 000 a month. Jordaan denied being involved in his brother’s appointment, saying that any such suggestion would be malicious.

Full Mail & Guardian report

Security firm considering suing LOC - 23/06/2010

Stallion Security has confirmed it is considering suing the World Cup Local Organising Committee for a breach of contract that led to thousands of stadium guards losing their jobs, says a report in The Mercury. The company’s Richard Ringrose, who was in charge of its World Cup contract to supply ’stewards’ to four World Cup stadiums, said Stallion had been paid in full by the committee for the services provided so far. According to press reports the contract until the end of the World Cup would have been worth R60m.

Full report in The Mercury

Thank you Bafana, says Jordaan – 21/06/2010Thank

Danny Jordaan thanked Bafana Bafana for their contribution in creating an ’amazing spirit’ around the 2010 World Cup, during a visit with the national team in a Johannesburg hotel. ’I must thank you for what is happening in this country right now,’ he told the team. ’I know you might not have seen all of it, but the spirit in this country is amazing … You must feel very proud about being a part of that.’ The Witness reports that Jordaan also said that the team should focus on the future.

Full report in The Witness

LOC to referee stadium dispute – 14/06/2010stadium

World Cup organisers are meeting with stadium stewards and a security contractor to resolve a pay dispute that saw police use tear gas and fire rubber bullets at striking workers after the Germany-Australia match in Durban. Sport24 reports that World Cup organisers are meeting with stadium stewards and a security contractor to resolve a pay dispute that saw police use tear gas and fire rubber bullets at striking workers after the Germany-Australia match in Durban.

Full Sport24 reportSport24

LOC committed to hosting a green WC – 14/06/2010

The LOC committed itself to adhering to sustainable development during the planning and hosting of the 2010 World Cup, a commitment which is binding on the host cities and FIFA through the Host City Agreement, signed by all parties. The Cape Argus reports that in light of LOC’s commitment to safeguarding the environment and to reducing its carbon footprint, it launched its Green Goal 2010 initiative last year, with the joint aims of reducing the environmental impact of the World Cup, and using the event as a platform from which to promote and educate South Africans on environmental issues.

Full Cape Argus report

Chickens come home to roost - 13/06/2010

Why did the chicken enter the stadium? The World Cup’s organising committee doesn’t know, and doesn’t like it. Roosters were seemingly allowed into Cape Town Stadium during the match between France and Uruguay. The Gallic rooster is a French national symbol. In the Beeld newspaper, a French supporter is shown in a photograph kissing his rooster in the stadium. ’No animals are allowed into stadiums,’ spokesperson Rich Mkhondo replied to questions by Sapa.

Full report on the sport4 site

Danny’s dream fulfilled - 12/06/2010

South Africa could not have asked for more in the opening game of the World Cup, 2010 Local Organising Committee CEO Danny Jordaan said. ’We could not have asked for more, a capacity stadium, a host nation with a will to win, an incredible atmosphere and spectacular football,’ he said. ’It is just fantastic that the first goal of Africa’s first World Cup went to South Africa. We really couldn’t have written a better script,’ he said. Jordaan said the match set the tone for the rest of the tournament.

Full report in The Witness

LOC gets $80m FIFA - 10/06/2010

FIFA has given local organisers of the 2010 World Cup a profit guarantee of $80m no matter how the tournament does financially, sources say. Speaking on the sidelines of the 60th FIFA congress, the sources said the decision on the guarantee had been made at a meeting of the FIFA executive committee at the beginning of the week in the South African city. FIFA executive committee members include former German football star Franz Beckenbauer, now a vice-president of the German Football Association (DFB). FIFA expects the 2010 World Cup to generate a profit reaching at least the three-figure million mark. In its annual financial report, published in March, FIFA said it had made a profit of $196m in 2009 and amassed $1.061bn in reserves.

Full report on the Sport24 site

’It is going to be an incredible day’ – Jordaan – 10/06/2010

Cup organiser Danny Jordaan used words like ’duck’, ’post office’, ’prison’ and ’snakes’ to describe his emotions a day before Africa hosts the world’s biggest soccer event, notes a Sport24 report. The CEO of the LOC said the excitement reminded him of the day before anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela was released from prison; or the day before South Africa’s first democratic elections in 1994. ’Tomorrow (Friday) is going to be an incredible day,’ said Jordaan.

Full Sport24 report

I want a ’smaller’ job, jokes Jordaan – 10/06/2010

World Cup chief organiser Danny Jordaan, speaking a day before the start of the biggest single sports event on earth, says he wants a ’smaller job’. The CEO of the local organising committee likened the run-up to the 2010 World Cup to the struggle against apartheid, joking that his next career move might be to the Post Office, notes a report on the IoL site. Jordaan said the excitement reminded him of the day before anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela was released from prison; or the day before South Africa’s first democratic elections in 1994.

Full report on the IoL site

LOC to release the tender docs – 08/06/2010LOC

The South Gauteng Court ruled to lift the veil of secrecy over the 2010 World Cup tendering process. The New Times notes that this came after the Mail and Guardian had made an application for such to the court asking it to force the LOC to release the documents to it. Acting judge Les Morrison ruled that the LOC must turn over such documents to the newspaper within 30 days. The LOC had sought to defend the claim on the grounds that it was not a public entity and as such did not have to comply with public procurement legislation.

Full report in The News Time Full

Fans urged to use park and ride – 08/06/2010

The LOC urged soccer fans who will watch the 2010 World Cup to use park-and-ride facilities. The Sowetan reports that the warning comes after many people used their cars to travel to Bafana Bafana’s last four international friendlies. Hundreds of people opted to use their cars to get to the games against Bulgaria, Colombia, Guatemala and Denmark.

Full report in The Sowetan

Calls for condoms inside stadia - 03/06/2010condoms

Aids organisations criticised FIFA and the LOC for ’blocking’ attempts to make condoms and HIV-related information available at World Cup stadiums and fan parks, notes a report on the IoL site. ’To date FIFA has not permitted any civil society organisation to distribute HIV or health-related information and FIFA has not provided any written confirmation that condoms may be distributed at stadiums and within the fan festivals,’ they said in a statement. They had requested an urgent meeting with the soccer body and the LOC, but were turned down.

Full report on the IOL siteon

National anthems must be respected – 28/05/2010

LOC boss Danny Jordaan has appealed to soccer fans to remain silent during the singing of national anthems at match venues during the 2010 World Cup. Jordaan was addressing reporters during a final pre-tournament stadium visit at Coca-Cola Park in Johannesburg where he also unveiled a commemorative plaque. ’When we sing the national anthem, it must have the ambience and respect it deserves. We can’t disrespect such an important part of a game by having unmitigated noise, so we ask people to please listen,’ he said. The LOC boss also urged fans to arrive at stadiums two hours before kick-off.

Full All Africa report

Stadium noise affects safety - 27/05/2010

LOC CEO Danny Jordaan warned that noise levels at stadiums could affect the safety of spectators, notes a Sport24 report. ’You must look at the circumstances in the stadiums,’ Jordaan told the media at Ellis Park stadium. ’If there is an evacuation order will everyone hear that order?’ Jordaan also said that too much noise could affect security’s ability to communicate with each other.

Full Sport24 report Sport24

M&G takes on LOC in court – 24/05/2010

The Mail & Guardian have taken an application in the South Gauteng High Court against the LOC of the 2010 World Cup and its CE, Danny Jordaan, over their refusal to release any tender documents relating to the tournament. Jordaan and the LOC have refused to disclose any information regarding the tenders awarded to provide a range of services during the 2010 World Cup and the 2009 Confederation Cup. This includes the name of companies to which these contracts were given and the value of the tenders.

Full Mail and Guardian report

Security concerns over PE stadium – 21/05/2010

With just 20 days to kick-off, security arrangements for the Nelson Mandela Bay World Cup stadium have been thrown into disarray, notes a Daily Dispatch report. According to highly placed sources, the LOC is preparing to oust the stadium’s nominated security provider, with police bracing for the possibility of taking over all security for the event.

Full Daily Dispatch report

LOC to promote WC in Tanzania – 17/05/2010

The LOC will visit Dar es Salaam to promote the event which is set to kick off next month. South African High Commission to Tanzania First Secretary (political) Nokwazi Mtshali said that the team would make a day-long visit on May 21. She said the committee would meet Tanzania Football Federation (TFF) officials, Minister for Information, Culture and Sports and South African High Commissioner to Tanzania before doing promotional activities in the city. Nokwazi said the team would meet about 500 pupils from Dar es Salaam Primary schools at Shaaban Robert School to market the World Cup to them.

Full IPP Media report