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source: Sport24
2009-12-07 14:00
Johannesburg – The 2010 Soccer World Cup final draw in Cape Town has unleashed a stampede for tickets for the tournament, with FIFA receiving close to a quarter of a million requests for tickets in the past two days, it was announced on Monday.
The third sale of tickets for the World Cup in South Africa began on Saturday, a day after fans in the 32 qualifying countries discovered which teams their team would be meeting in the first round of the June 11 to July 11 tournament.
In the first 48 hours, 219 162 ticketing requests were received on FIFA’s website, the football body said.
“We are pleased with the interest shown so far. It shows the impact the final draw has had on football fans and the World Cup next year,” Horst R. Schmidt, chairperson of the Ticketing Sub-Committee, said in [continue reading]
source: News24
2009-12-07 22:31
Johannesburg – The police force will make South Africa safe for the 2010 World Cup and beyond, national police commissioner Bheki Cele said on Monday.
Speaking at the launch of the police’s festive season campaign, Cele said the police had put several structures in place to meet any possible crime during the World Cup.
“I don’t know who married 2010 and crime, but we’re going to divorce it,” he said.
Cele said he was in Malawi on Sunday to meet the police commissioners of all the southern African countries in anticipation of the event and to try to stop transnational crime before it [continue reading]
source: BOPA
07 December, 2009
KANYE – Sekhutlane residents in Southern District have been promised that Botswana will approach the South African government about the possibility of opening a border gate at Mabule.
Addressing a kgotla meeting in Sekhutlane last week, President Lt Gen. Seretse Khama Ian Khama said opening of a border gate usually involved bilateral talks between neighbouring countries.
He however, doubted if South Africa would agree to open the border gate because they had previously stated that they had opened enough border gates.
Nonetheless, he said efforts would be made to open negotiations with them.
President Khama was responding to a village development committee representative who asked that a border gate be opened at Mabule since the Ramatlabama one was a distance for people around Sekhutlane, Mabule, Lorolwana and [continue reading]
source: Sunday Standard
by Fayruz Hamed
06.12.2009 5:19:10 P
With the World Cup fast approaching, southern Africa could be faced with human trafficking on an unprecedented scale. Experts investigating human trafficking estimated that some 40 000 women and girls were trafficked into Germany for the World Cup in 2006, and Hanlie Linde, of the Stop the Trafficking of People Alliance (STOP) in South Africa, estimates that up to 100 000 could be trafficked into southern and South Africa for 2010.
At the South African Bishops’ Conference, Father Chris Townsend, spokesman from the Bishop’s Conference of South Africa, Botswana and Swaziland, suggested that organised crime could actively target fans with [continue reading]
source: IOL
December 07 2009 at 12:12AM
An initiative which will allow teachers to purchase subsidised laptops will help raise standards of education in the country, the South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu) said on Sunday.
“Our teachers will now receive subsidised laptops which have far-reaching implications towards improving the quality of education,” said Sadtu on Sunday after its national executive committee met in Johannesburg.
“Our teachers will be able to access relevant information for teaching and learning, as well as for their own professional development via the Internet.”
The union said the initiative would be [continue reading]
source: Fin24
Dec 06 2009 13:27 Jade Menezies
Johannesburg – The 2010 Fifa World Cup may bring more than a flood of tourists to South Africa; cyber crime and viruses are also likely to increase dramatically, experts at the international computer security firm Kaspersky Lab have said.
“The 2010 World Cup poses a major threat,” said Garry Kondakov, MD of Kaspersky Lab for Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
“Computer or electronic attacks are about business – criminal business. All the malicious software that is created and distributed is because criminals smell money.”
Visiting tourists will bring in large amounts of money, attracting criminal activity.
There are also concerns that South Africa’s technology infrastructure makes it particularly vulnerable.
“Technical education and security infrastructure within emerging countries is far behind matured regions such as [continue reading]
source: Fin24
Dec 04 2009 07:50 Antoinette Slabbert
Pretoria – South African tour operators will be working right through the festive season this year.
This is according to Matsatsi Marobe, chief executive of the Tourism Business Council.
Soccer fans can apply for tickets for individual or team-specific matches for the Fifa World Cup up to January 22. If demand exceeds supply, an electronic draw on February 1 will determine who gets the tickets.
Marobe says tour operators will now be working feverishly to finalise local transport to and from matches. She says the tourism industry and transport authorities will exchange information to facilitate the interplay between air and land transport.
It’s surprising, she points out, that the US is currently in second place, after South Africa, in respect of [continue reading]
source: allAfrica
Business Day (Johannesburg)
Linda Ensor
4 December 2009
Cape Town — President Jacob Zuma yesterday announced an impressive list of 19 names for the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Council, which will play a critical role in driving the transformation of the economy.
For many aspirant black businessmen, this transformation has proceeded too slowly .
The long-awaited advisory body — which Zuma will chair — was established under the Broad- Based Black Economic Empowerment Council Act of 2003 and will consist of four Cabinet ministers and representatives of business, labour, academia, the legal and accounting professions, youth organisations and civil society.
The council will advise the government on the draft codes of good practice and [continue reading]
source: allAfrica
SW Radio Africa (London)
Tichaona Sibanda
3 December 2009
South African President Jacob Zuma will not visit Zimbabwe any time ‘soon’ to engage the leadership over outstanding issues in the Global Political Agreement, his spokesman said on Thursday.
But the South African leader will deliver a report compiled by his facilitation team, to Mozambican President Armando Guebuza, in a few days time. Guebuza is the current chairman of the SADC Troika, the regional trade bloc’s organ on politics, defence and security.
Vincent Magwenya told SW Radio Africa from Pretoria that reports the President was scheduled to visit Zimbabwe were incorrect and misleading.
‘How can he visit Harare when he has just sent a team there?’ asked Magwenya, who added that ‘the media was working on [continue reading]
source: IOL
December 04 2009 at 10:55AM
By Louise Flanagan
The murder rate has dropped 44 percent in 14 years but South Africans do not feel any better about crime. The SA Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) said in 1994/95, 25 965 people were murdered in South Africa, a rate of 70 in every 100 000 people.
In 2008/09 there were 18 148 murders, a rate of 37 per 100 000.
This means the actual number of murders dropped by 30 percent and the rate of murders dropped by 44 percent.
“This improvement in the most serious crime is not reflected in the perceptions of South Africans, as in 2007 some 57 percent felt crime levels had increased,” said the [continue reading]
source: News24
2009-12-02 13:24
Durban – The Durban Regional Court on Wednesday dismissed a bid to have culpable homicide charges against businessman Prince Sifiso Zulu dropped.
Magistrate Thomas Nhleko rejected the application, lodged by defence advocate Thabani Masuku, to drop all charges against Zulu, saying the state had a very strong case.
The case was postponed to March 3 next year, when the defence team was [continue reading]
source: Fin24
Dec 04 2009 17:58
Johannesburg – South African Airways (SAA), has closed a deal with Match, the official provider of tickets, accommodation and logistics for next year’s 2010 Soccer World Cup.
“According to this agreement reached between [SAA] and Match, SAA will be providing 89 000 sectors on its own fleet of aircraft to be used by Match customers,” SAA said in a statement on Friday.
“The sectors will be operated by SAA aircraft on the Golden triangle, which include flights between Johannesburg to Cape Town, and to Durban as well as between Durban and Cape Town.”
SAA is also working on other transport solutions with Match to find ways of transporting Match customers to [continue reading]
source: Fin24
Dec 02 2009 13:39 Simon Dingle
Johannesburg – The Super 14, DJ Sbu, Facebook as well as Nelson Mandela were among the most searched-for topics on Google in South Africa during 2009.
The internet giant has announced its search trends for the year, including country-specific results, providing the world’s most searched-for terms.
The recession featured prominently in 2009, as is to be expected. But South Africans seem to have been a bit clueless about what was going on, with “What is recession?” the most searched-for relative term in the country.
Of interest would be the list of the most searched-for celebrities. DJ Sbu rules the roost, followed by socialite Khanyi Mbau and movie star Charlize Theron.
Oscar Pistorius is also on the list, along with [continue reading]
source: SW Radio Africa
By Tichaona Sibanda
30 November 2009
A high powered South African delegation has arrived in the country to speed up the slow-paced Global Political Agreement talks between ZANU PF and the two MDC formations.
The South African team, led by ANC stalwart Charles Nqakula jetted into Harare on Sunday night. The other two members of the new facilitation team are veteran ANC cadre Mac Maharaj and Lindiwe Zulu, an international relations expert.
The team is set to join negotiators from ZANU PF and the two MDC’s in renewed efforts to broker a lasting solution to the country’s political crisis. South African President Jacob Zuma appointed the new team last week in the hope that they will push Robert Mugabe, Morgan Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara to fully implement the GPA.
Negotiators from the three parties spent most of last week locked in marathon meetings, but the talks are running behind schedule as SADC gave the parties 30 days within which to [continue reading]
source: News24
2009-11-29 21:28
Johannesburg – A team of South African officials departed for Zimbabwe on Sunday where they will facilitate talks on the Zimbabwean power-sharing agreement, the presidency said.
“The facilitation support team constituted by President Jacob Zuma to work on the Zimbabwean process will head to Harare, Zimbabwe on Sunday,” said presidential spokesperson Vincent Magwenya.
He said South Africa was ready to help ensure that the power-sharing agreement was fully implemented.
“The gains that have already been achieved by parties in Zimbabwe cannot be reversed.”
The facilitation team is led by Charles Nqakula, former defence minister and [continue reading]
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