Posted in November 4th, 2008
Confusing times ahead for GPS users.
Here’s something we hadn’t considered. What will soccer tourists do for the 2010 world cup when their maps or GPSes are wrong and they get lost?
It is all very well warning them to stay out of crime hotspots but if those areas are known by another name by [...]
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Posted in July 1st, 2008
Jordaan infuriated by ‘Plan B’
Johannesburg – Only an act of God will prevent the 2010 World Cup finals being hosted in South Africa.
That was the reassurance given on Tuesday by the chief executive officer of the 2010 Soccer World Cup Local Organising Committee (LOC). Danny Jordaan
Jordaan was furious over reports in [...]
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Posted in June 14th, 2008
Cape Town Council will (with the tariff increases) ease its financial woes. The Greenpoint Stadium is in financial difficulties as building costs escalate.
As usual homeowners will be burdened with these un- realistic tariff increases. A year has almost gone by and rates assessment blunders have yet to be rectified, yet increases [...]
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Posted in March 29th, 2008
WHEN the government, politicians and other opportunists first mooted and then embarked upon the bid to host the 2010 soccer World Cup, the merits of proceeding with the massively expensive project were all the buzz and were a hard-sell, touting tourism, job-creation, foreign investment and all that other stuff.
It is the list of “arch [...]
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