Danny Jordaan, CEO, South African World Cup Organizing Committee
“If there is a security breach in Finland, you are not going to ask England to explain,” he said, adding that the distance between South Africa and Angola is equivalent to the distance between Finland and the U.K.
The head of the organizing committee for the soccer World Cup in South Africa dismissed concerns over the safety of the event after the Togolese national team was attacked by rebels in Angola en route to the Africa Cup of Nations tournament. Read the rest of this entry »
FIFA is warning football fans to beware of fake tickets for next year’s World Cup in South Africa as it cracks down on fraudulent Internet sales.
Google has announced that it will launch South Africa Street View before the 2010 FIFA World Cup. In the coming weeks Google, using Toyota Prius models will begin driving around South Africa and taking photographs of locations, including Johannesburg, Cape Town, Pretoria, Port Elizabeth, and Durban.
Johannesburg’s public bus system ran for the first time on a week day as the government seeks to remedy a lack of planning during apartheid that trapped millions of black South Africans in townships miles from their jobs without reliable transport.
