4 March 2010, 10:59 am
The World Cup will do even more to forge a united South Africa than Nelson Mandela's success in pulling a divided country together through the 1995 world rugby tournament, the chief organizer said on Thursday.... Read More »
4 March 2010, 8:28 am
March 4 (Bloomberg) -- This year’s soccer World Cup in South Africa is headed for a sellout with just more than 3 months left to market 500,000 tickets, the head of the organizing committee said.... Read More »
4 March 2010, 6:03 am
South Africa began its 100-day countdown to the 2010 World Cup on March 2, and CNN took a look at the progress at some of the new stadiums.... Read More »
4 March 2010, 4:48 am
South Africa's chief World Cup organizer has dismissed fears that the stadiums for football's showpiece tournament will not be ready in time for kick-off on June 11.... Read More »
2 March 2010, 1:39 pm
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — I'm not Canadian though, like most Louisianians of French descent, I suspect my ancestors were.... Read More »
1 March 2010, 2:38 pm
When the time comes at the end of each Games to sum up the 17 days, I don’t take that task lightly.... Read More »
17 February 2010, 10:38 am
Danny Jordaan once was an anti-apartheid activist campaigning to keep South Africa out of international sports. Today he is in charge of preparing his country to be the first on the continent to host the premier tournament of the world’s most popular sport.... Read More »
16 February 2010, 9:37 am
S o, you say you love soccer, eh? Say you're a die-hard, you will be glued to the World Cup broadcasts from South Africa next summer and would play hooky from work if the World Cup were to ever come t...... Read More »
16 February 2010, 7:39 am
The chief World Cup organizer campaigned to keep South Africa out of international sports as an anti-apartheid activist in the 1970s. Today, he says the country is "inviting the whole world to come here."... Read More »
16 February 2010, 3:53 am
Chief organizer of the 2010 World Cup Soccer tournament, Danny Jordaan, speaks with the Associated Press in Johannesburg Tuesday Feb. 16, 2010. With just over 100 days to go before South Africa becomes the first African country to host a World Cup, Jordaan recalled that under apartheid he was denied... Read More »
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