SWC – Party on..
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SWC – Party on..

5 Days into the SWC 2010 and my dearest Johannesburg is on its head. Kids, students, and bumptious businessmen are crooning over the novelty and patting themselves on the backs [...]

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  • Posted on 17th Jun 2010
    by Jerome Mitchell
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It’s almost tickets……..
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It’s almost tickets……..

So the final stage of ticket applications is upon us. As predicted by most analysts, tickets have been selling like hotcakes with fans sleeping on pavements waiting for ‘over the [...]

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  • Posted on 20th Apr 2010
    by Alistair Hayward
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Stock Up On Baked Beans In June???
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Stock Up On Baked Beans In June???

An email has been doing the rounds the last few weeks about how the 2010 FIFA World Cup is going to turn South Africans’ lives upside down.
Below is an extract [...]

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  • Posted on 7th Apr 2010
    by Alistair Hayward
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90 SOMETHING DAYS & TICKING…..
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90 SOMETHING DAYS & TICKING…..

With less than 100 days to kick-off it’s fair to say the FIFA 2010 World Cup in South Africa will in general be a success. But after my recent visit [...]

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  • Posted on 5th Mar 2010
    by Alistair Hayward
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Book your nook….now
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Book your nook….now

Never in the history or the future of the FIFA Soccer World Cup will it be easier for fans to get their paws on tickets. The key to the success [...]

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  • Posted on 26th Jan 2010
    by Alistair Hayward
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Fans Switched Off This Summer
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Fans Switched Off This Summer

A year ago the Supersport channels billed 2009 as the ‘Year of the Fan’. With the year having hastily raced to a conclusion, one cannot help but feel that for South [...]

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  • Posted on 5th Jan 2010
    by Alistair Hayward
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Tequila, Grappamiel & Champagne – Strictly No Ice
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Tequila, Grappamiel & Champagne – Strictly No Ice

On the Friday morning preceding the much hyped 2010 FIFA World Cup draw, a friend texted me from Germany to say the national ‘Bild Zeitung’ newspaper had uncovered a huge [...]

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  • Posted on 7th Dec 2009
    by Alistair Hayward
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Culling White Elephants
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Culling White Elephants

The White Lions of Sabie are a massive draw-card for any visitor to South Africa’s famous Kruger Park. Less than an hour’s drive from Sabie through Mpumalanga’s picturesque banana orchards [...]

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  • Posted on 17th Nov 2009
    by Alistair Hayward
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Scoring Goals off the Pitch
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Scoring Goals off the Pitch

The significance of the identity of the 32 competing nations has been understated in the build-up to the 2010 FIFA World Cup. With 23 teams having already qualified, there are [...]

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  • Posted on 5th Nov 2009
    by Alistair Hayward
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