| Politicians praise SA’s WC success 19/08/2010 |
Political parties across the spectrum have echoed President Jacob Zuma’s praise for South Africans, attributing the success of the 2010 World Cup to their patriotic spirit and passion. During a joint sitting of Parliament to debate the successful hosting of the 2010 World Cup, the people of South Africa emerged as the true stars of the tournament and were lauded for their contribution by the President and political parties. DA leader and Premier of the Western Cape Helen Zille said the single greatest achievement of the World Cup was the way it had changed stereotypes.
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| SAPS to keep up security after WC: Cele - 14/07/2010 |
The police will keep up security in the country after the Soccer World Cup, national police Commissioner Bheki Cele said in Johannesburg on Wednesday. While policing could not be sustained at the level it had been during the tournament, the police would maintain efforts to keep the country safe, he said at Primedia’s Star of the Stars award, that Cele and Deputy Police Minister Fikile Mbalula accepted on
behalf of the whole Saps.
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| Durban to become premier sporting destination 27/05/2010sporting |
Durban’s dramatic makeover in recent years was always intended to go beyond the 2010 World Cup, said eThekwini Municipality’s Strategic Project Unit Head, Julie-May Ellingson. In a presentation at the African Renaissance Conference currently taking place in the city, Ellingson told delegates that revamping the city centre was aimed at making Durban a premier sports destination in Africa. ’We wanted to change the face of Durban. And we managed to do that. It is important to constantly be innovative,’ Ellingson said.
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| 2010 WC carbon footprint targeted 27/05/2010 |
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) announced today that they will be major players at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa with projects to reduce carbon emissions as part of a National Greening Programme. At the World Cup, GEF has provided US$1million to help retrofit solar panels on public street lights, traffic lights and billboards around the stadia in the six cities hosting the games.
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| SA Government announces road safety roadshow 26/05/2010 |
North West MEC has embarked on a road safety awareness roadshow in preparation of the World Cup matches to be hosted at Royal Bafokeng Stadium. The objective of the three weeks long roadshow is to raise road safety awareness with a view to reducing road accidents around the Rustenburg Host City, Bojanala Platinum District and throughout the province during the World Cup. Topics covered by the provincial initiative that is into its second week include don’t drink and drive, fatigue, safety belts and stray animals, pedestrian and passenger safety.
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| 2010 Suncoast Fine Art Exhibition 25/05/2010 |
The Suncoast Art Exhibition, opening 10 June, will bring together the work of leading contemporary artists from around the world. Suncoast, hosts of the event, boast that the exhibition will be one of the largest and most ambitious international art collaborations in history. The two collections 2010 International Fine Art and 2010 African Fine Art offer collectors and football fans alike the opportunity to see and purchase a fine art pieces.
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| Major boost for WC transport plans 20/05/2010 |
The transport plans for the 2010 World Cup have received a major boost with the arrival of the new Volvo buses in the city. The buses will be handed over to the taxi industry to operate during the World cup. Hailed as safe, user friendly and reliable, the articulated uses are 18 metres in length, can accommodate 115 passengers, have a Euro4 rating, have a low floor with four doors on the right and two doors on the left, space for two wheel chairs as well electronic and passenger information system.
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| Global Icons and Cool Britannia team up - 10/05/2010 |
Global Icons of Cape Town and Cool Britannia, the UK-based international events company with a decade of experience in organizing events for the travelling football faithful, will be working together to turn the Cape Town International Convention Centre into Africa’s biggest football party during the World Cup. Offering the Mother City an international entertainment line-up never before seen in this country - with live viewing of the Games and nightly after-parties, the CTICC will be alive and pumping from 12 noon until the early hours. Different country themes for every day, fashion shows, live bands, DJs, food and drink from around the world will keep the public entertained throughout the tournament.
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| Spotlight on 2010 environmental issues - 06/05/2010 |
Lateral thinking (’exploring multiple possibilities and approaches instead of pursuing a single approach’) can provide many valuable new tools in solving old problems. At a time of ever increasing traffic volume on our roads, rising fuel prices, social exclusion, rising congestion, pollution and an apparent lack of viable public transport *or* road building solutions it surely is time for some serious lateral thinking. The demand on our transport system is growing and the side effects of this growth are having serious implications on individuals, businesses and the environment.
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| Hublot becomes official timekeeper for next two FIFA World Cups 19/04/2010 |
Hublot joined FIFA today to announce that the brand would be the ’Official Watch’ for the next two FIFA World Cups, which will be held in South Africa in June and Brazil in 2014. This new venture with football’s supreme authority is the high point of Hublot’s sports strategy in terms of football. Hublot already has a long and illustrious history in the footballing world: a sponsor of the Swiss team in 2006 and an official partner of Euro 2008, with links to the Mexican Football Federation and the Spanish national team, the "Official Timekeeper" for Manchester United, and recently a partnership with Diego Maradona, the Brand has now signed one of its most prestigious agreements with FIFA.
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| King Shaka passes with flying colours 18/04/2010 |
The newly constructed King Shaka International Airport in Durban came out with flying colours during a trial exercise last week. The mass trial at the airport in La Mercy involved the participation of an estimated 800 ’fake passengers’ and 300 staff members as part of the last leg of rigorous checks to ensure its preparedness ahead of its big day on 1 May, when it becomes operational. The trial sees the culmination of the Operational Readiness and Transfer Program and it shows that King Shaka International Airport is now 100% functional ahead of its official opening and of the 2010 World Cup.
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| A-Aggreko announced as final national supporter - 13/04/2010 |
The final National Supporter of the 2010 FIFA World CupTM has been revealed as Shanduka-Aggreko. Shanduka, a leading African investment holding company, through its subsidiary Shanduka Energy, and Aggreko, the global leader in the
provision of temporary power rental services, have formed a joint-venture which is the official supplier of rental power for broadcasting of the FIFA World CupTM tournament. The tournament will be held from 11th June to 11th July 2010 across 10 stadiums in South Africa.
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| Mossel Bay Tourism’s Football Fridays: Welcoming South Africa - 08/04/2010 |
The staff of Mossel Bay Tourism have come out in strong support of the national football team - and they’re showing it every Friday. ’We wear our Bafana Bafana shirts on Fridays because we’re proud to be South African, and because we’re proud that we’re the host country for this year’s FIFA World Cup,’ said the company’s Chief Operations Officer, Marcia Holm.
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| SAFA focused on delivering successful WC - 30/03/2010 |
The Association hereby confirms its position that, contrary to media reports, the South African Football Association (SAFA) is fully focused on delivering the most successful FIFA World Cup ever. The Association has just appointed new Members to the Organising Committee Board of Directors as a clear indication of its joint commitment with government, the labour movement and the private sector to strengthen our efforts to achieve our objectives. We express our concern about the news articles of the weekend for the following reasons:
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| Mossel Bay keeps rates low during World Cup - 23/02/2010 |
Mossel Bay’s accommodation providers and tourism product owners are planning to attract both South Africans and foreign visitors this winter by charging their normal low season rates during the course of the 2010 World Cup. ’As a result of the media focus on accommodation and transport prices and possible price gouging during the World Cup, we asked our members to mail us their World Cup period rates - and none of those who responded will be charging anything more than they would during the rest of our low season, which stretches from just after Easter until well into September,’ said Mossel Bay Tourism’s Marcia Holm.
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| Free-to-air broadcasts for 2010 16/02/2010 |
Avvio 505 enables Latin American and African football fans to
view live, free-to-air broadcasts of World Cup 2010. Telegent Systems, the company that makes television mobile, and Brightstar Corp., a global leader in value-added distribution and integrated supply chain solutions for the wireless industry, announced a partnership to bring a low-cost handset that delivers live, free-to-air broadcast TV to Latin American and African consumers prior to this summer’s 2010 football World Cup in South Africa.
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| Calling all homeowners - 11/02/2010 |
2010 Property Rentals, an online service where homeowners can register their properties on the website for renting out during the FIFA 2010 World Cup, is eager for tourists to invest money into local communities. ’It is estimated that there will be over 400 thousand visitors to South Africa for the duration of the tournament and that the event will pump over R2.5 billion into the South African economy,’ says Sherrill Baard, Managing Director of 2010 Property Rentals. ’It is essential that this money is pumped back into local communities. In order to achieve this, long term and short term benefits to the local communities through tourism must be considered.’
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| 2010 WC will benefit all 10/02/2010 |
At the finals of a national youth debating competition, winner Charlotte Le Fleur of Worcester Secondary School in the Western Cape expressed strong views that
the 2010 World Cup would ’not disappoint’ and would benefit the majority of South Africans by creating thousands of jobs and generating billions of rands. Conducted among 266 learners nationally, the State of the Nation Address National Schools Debate competition was organised by Sanlam and the Government Communication and Information System (GCIS). It aimed to access the youth’s views on issues of national importance and to foster a culture of debate among young South Africans.
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| Opportunity for SA to display its BPO capabilities 04/02/2010 |
The financial turmoil of 2009 led a number of companies to increase their focus
on BPO services. This is due to the significant savings they offered, as a means to control spending. Frost & Sullivan (www.frost.com) believes that this heightened interest in BPO will continue into the coming year. Specifically, South Africa is in a position to capitalise on its expertise within the call centre market and to develop high-end knowledge intensive call centres. ’South Africa, as the host nation of the FIFA World Cup, is in a good position to communicate its BPO capabilities to the World,’ says Frost & Sullivan ICT analyst Mpho Moyo. ’Emphasis should be put on South Africa’s superior infrastructure and its ability to
deliver high quality services by showcasing the successful services provided to both international and domestic clients.’
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| Schools ’Football World Cup’ kicks off - 04/02/2010 |
With the 2010 Football World Cup a mere four months away, the country’s preparations for the international event have entered an exciting and festive phase. Alongside the frenetic activity across the nation to put all the final touches in place for the massive soccer frenetic, school children country-wide have started their own football world cup tournament that is modeled on the Fifa event. In KwaZulu-Natal, the KZN Department of Sport and Recreation has partnered with the Department of Education, the Ethekwini Municipality and SAFA to stage the KZN 2010 Provincial Football Festival, which is scheduled to take place this month from Friday 26 to Sunday 28 in Durban.
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| Mossel Bay open for South Africans during WC - 04/02/2010 |
With all the hype about the hundreds of thousands of foreign soccer fans who are expected to stream into South Africa for the FIFA World Cup in June and July - what are South African holidaymakers going to do this winter? Especially since many of the country’s hotels and lodges are expecting to be fully booked, prices are skyrocketing in many destinations, and local schools will be enjoying a six-week-long mid-year break? ’They should come and visit us,’ said Mossel Bay Tourism’s Marcia Holm. ’Mossel Bay will definitely be open for South Africans during the World Cup.’
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| Parreira visits European Clubs - 03/02/2010 |
Bafana Bafana coach Carlos Parreira is in Europe to engage coaches for a possible release of players for the upcoming World Cup Preparation camps in Brazil and Germany respectively. The coach, accompanied by Bafana Bafana physical trainer Francisco Gonzalez and team manager Sipho Nkumane, left on Tuesday, 02 February. The Brazil camp will kick off in March after the completion of the Premier Soccer League fixtures, with the German camp scheduled for April. Bafana Bafana will round-off their World Cup preparations at their base camp at Esselen Park in Johannesburg.
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| Image Source announces 2010 prize draw - 13/01/2010 |
mage Source, the world’s leading producer of royalty free stock imagery, announces a prize draw for customers to win a pair of tickets to Cape Town, South Africa for the World Cup. Customers purchasing any product directly from imagesource.com from the 1st January to the 31st March will be automatically entered into a prize draw to win flights, tickets and accommodation to Cape Town, South Africa.
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| 2010 fever hits Soweto - 13/12/1009 |
The build up to next years 2010 World Cup was given a major boost asthousands of people turned up for the Gauteng 2010 Family Fun Day event in Kliptown, Soweto. The Family Fun day, a Gauteng Provincial Government initiative, aims to build-up excitement ahead of the World Cup and ensure the
people are actively involved as hosts of the biggest football festival. Premier Nomvula Mokonyane urged Gauteng residents to extend a hand of friendship to visitors and ensure that the tournament is a huge success.
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| SAFA referees appointed for Angola AFCON โ 10/12/2009 |
Three South African referees have been appointed to officiate at the 2010 African Cup of Nations tournament in Angola. Jerome Damon, Daniel Bennett and Enoch Molefe (assistant referee) will be flying South Africa’s flag high at the African soccer showpiece that runs from 10 โ 31 January 2010. Damon and Molefe are also on the shortlist for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
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| Namibian Tourism Board eyes 2010 market 07/12/209 |
The Namibia Tourism Board will host a much anticipated exhibition from the 6-11 December, coinciding with the FIFA Final draw event to showcase Namibia to the world. With less than 7 months to the world’s most prestigious sporting event, much like South Africa, Namibia is preparing to welcome the hosts of projected visitors, not only from the international community, but from other African nations as well.
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| Long Street transformed into Final Draw festival zone 02/12/2009 |
Over 15 000 revellers are expected to gather in Upper Long Street this Friday, December 4 for a Final Draw festival hosted by the City of Cape Town. ’The Cape Town Final Draw Festival in Long Street offers the public the opportunity to experience the Final Draw of the 2010 FIFA World Cup at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC),’ says Pieter Cronj้, the City of Cape Town’s Director of Communication and 2010 World Cup Spokesperson. The live broadcast from the CTICC will be relayed on huge television screens in the pedestrianised area between Buitensingel and Dorp Street. The Long Street Festival stage is an exact replica of next year’s Fifa Fan Fest stage on the Grand Parade.
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| Long Street set to become festival zone for draw 26/11/2009 |
The entire Upper Long Street, from Wale Street to Buitensingel, is to be converted into a festival zone for the Final Draw of the 2010 World Cup on Friday, December 4.
The Final Draw, which will take place in front of some 3 000 international guests at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) will be broadcast live to an estimated audience of 150 million viewers in 200 countries. According to Pieter Cronj้, the City of Cape Town’s Director of Communication and 2010 Spokesperson, the Long Street festival area will have video links to the CTICC’s Red Carpet Welcome Event so that Capetonians can experience the excitement of the event on large video screens in the party heart of the Cape Town CBD.
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| Table Mountain lights up for final draw 26/11/2009 |
On December 4, one of the world’s largest television audiences will focus on Cape Town for the Final Draw of the 2010 World Cup. To celebrate the event, the City of Cape Town has arranged to keep the lights at Table Mountain switched on until midnight on that Friday night, as well as on Sunday, November 29. ’As one of the world’s most famous landmarks, Table Mountain, is bound to feature prominently in every newscast which will be beamed from Cape Town to some 200 countries,’ says Pieter Cronj้, the City’s Director of Communications and 2010 World Cup spokesperson. According to Director of Electricity Services, Dr Leslie Rencontre, the City will be purchasing green energy to illuminate the mountain during this festive season peak period.
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| Mayor launches ’Quality Open Space’ project - 11/11/2009 |
The City of Cape Town has officially launched the ’Quality Open Space’ project in Bellville South. The project links the 2010 World Cup to local improvement initiatives. Equally important is the need to extend the existing City programme of providing public open spaces where people can gather and socialise. The focus of this project is the creation of a lasting legacy by establishing neighbourhood public places.
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