The risk of power cuts during the 2010 soccer World Cup has been
averted because the global economic crisis has reduced South African
consumption, Energy Minister Dipuo Peters said on Monday.

With less than a week until volunteer applications for the 2010 Fifa
World Cup close on 31 August, over 52,000 applications have been
received.

Next June’s World Cup in South Africa will kick off with a live music
spectacular featuring mainly African artists, along with a clutch of
world stars, organisers said Wednesday.

The United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) will ask the company marketing stab-proof vests to visitors of the 2010 Fifa World Cup in South Africa to remove Unicef advertising from its website.

Football supporters in Africa are hungry for more quality football, and many of them will make the trip to South Africa in five months’ time to witness history in the making.

Johannesburg’s informal traders stand to score big during the 2010 Fifa
World Cup if they adhere to the international soccer body’s by-laws,
the city’s 2010 office said on Wednesday.

Eskom is confident it will have enough power to avoid load shedding during the World Cup, a spokesman said on Monday.

Starbucks coffee will be served in SA in time for the World Cup, it was announced on Monday.
It would be available at select hotels and casinos in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban.

Bafana Bafana coach Carlos Parreira named his 23 men squad on Tuesday to play in the upcoming Fifa Soccer World Cup.

Applications for 2010 World Cup volunteers passed the 15,000 mark a
week after the applications opened, Fifa’s local organising committee
(LOC) said on Monday