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South Africa Says 2010 FIFA World Cup Safety Worry ‘Illogical’

Staff Writer — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:30:42 +0000

b>”We should not be condemned by what happens in a country far away from us. It can’t be right, it makes no sense. It’s illogical,” Danny Jordaan, the leader of the committee, told reporters in Johannesburg today. “If there is a security breach in Finland, you are not going to ask England to explain,” he said, [...]

VIDEO: 2010 FIFA World Cup: South African Police Service’s Security Measures

Staff Writer — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:05:59 +0000

VIDEO: What the 2010 FIFA World Cup Means for South Africa’s Top Companies

Staff Writer — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 15:50:11 +0000

VIDEO: Johannesburg (Gauteng Province, South Africa) is an Excellent Business Location

Staff Writer — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:00:39 +0000

FIFA: Beware of Fake World Cup Tickets

Staff Writer — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:34:31 +0000

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. In order to prevent forgery, official match tickets will only be printed a few weeks before the tournament kicks off next year. FIFA has revealed that it is working with international [...]

Vodacom Marathon Development Competition’s First Winner Receives R50,000 Prize for Developing Mobile Widget

Staff Writer — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:47:56 +0000

odacom’s very first “Dawn of the Living Widgets” winner, S3 Solutions, have triumphed in taking the grand prize of R50,000 in a marathon 6-hour mobile widget development competition held at Vodaworld in South Africa on Saturday, 5 September. The 4-man team developed a 2010 Soccer World Cup widget, which counts down the days and hours left [...]

Google to Launch South Africa Street View before 2010 FIFA World Cup; Google Maps to Include Johannesburg, Cape Town, Pretoria, Port Elizabeth, and Durban

Staff Writer — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:23:26 +0000

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. Street View is a hugely popular feature of Google Maps [...]

South Africa Starts Bus Service to Fix Apartheid Legacy; South African National Taxi Council (SANTACO) Plans Strike

Staff Writer — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:02:09 +0000

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. The so-called Rea Vaya bus route, which links Soweto to central Johannesburg, is a pilot [...]

VIDEO: CNBC’s Fast Money Trading the Globe: South Africa

Staff Writer — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:41:09 +0000

VIDEO: The South African Economic Climate

Staff Writer — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:57:25 +0000