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As 2010 FIFA World Cup ends, Student Village together with the Keep Flying campaign are encouraging you to support charities with clothes and flags and to keep up the good cheer in South Africa, we can sport Keep Flying buttons and our flags for another month.
Keep Flying is a simple idea. An idea that matters. And an idea that belongs to all of us. It believes that its all of our responsibility to fly the flag and to recognize what the flag symbolizes: Us, and our unity. A unity …
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Ghana is the first African team from the six pack to make it to the last 16 stages of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
Germany defeated the Black Stars but they come in second place in Group D after Australia did them a favour by beating Serbia. Germany will face Engalnd in Bloemfontein this Sunday – while the only African team so far in the last 16 will take on the USA on Saturday at the Royal Bafoekeng Staduim.
Despite a 2-1 win in their group D encounter last night – neither Australia nor …
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Bafana Bafana have vacated their base camp in Sandton following their exit from the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
Bafana won their group match against France 2-0 but it was not enough to secure them a place in the last 16 of the tournament.
Coach Carlos Alberto Parriera’s contract expires at the end of July while the team will re-group in September under a new coach – Pitso Mosimane and Super Sport United coach Gavin Hunt are in contention for the job.
SAFA CEO Leslie Sedibe says Bafana Bafana will start preparing for …
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28 accused have been convicted in Mzansi’s World Cup Courts since they opened on the 28th of May.
One of the latest convictions was a 26 year old man who was sentenced to 20 months behind bars – after he tried to steal a duvet cover from a tourist bus. National Prosecuting Authority spokesperson Mthunzi Mhaga reportedly told the South African Press Agency that 76 cases have been filed in the courts so far – of which 30 cases were finalised.
Mhaga added that a number of cases have been withdrawn due …
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There were no sounds of Vuvuzelas in across Mzasni last night as Bafana Bafana’s world cup dream lay in tatters.
The world cup hosts went three goals down to Uruguay at Loftus Versveld last night – leaving coach Carlos Alberto Perreira with more questions than answers.
Villagers are wondering why he insisted on including Teko Modise while others lamented his decision to exclude central defender Matthew Booth.
At the end of the game – skipper Aaron Mokoena assured the nation Bafana would bounce back during their encounter with France in Bloemfontein on Sunday.
Tebzangwana1986 …
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A new report has found that 89.9 percent of people want the vuvuzela to be banned from he 2010 FIFA World Cup.
This is according to banvuvuzela.com which was created to allow people to vote either for or against the banning of the unofficial national instrument of Mzansi.
The site has so far received over 83 000 votes – with just under 75 000 people supporting a motion to ban the horn.
However – Local Organising Committee CEO Danny Jordaan says there are no grounds to ban the vuvuzela – and LOC spokesperson …
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President Nelson Mandela welcomed the FIFA World Cup trophy to Mzansi today as preparations for the event hit fever pitch.
With tears of joy in his eyes, Utata Mandela proclaimed that he felt “like a boy of 15” on the day Mzansi was awarded the right to host the 2010 Fifa World Cup. Today he again laid his hands on the FIFA World Cup trophy at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Joburg just 35 days before kick-off of Africa’s first FIFA World Cup.
FIFA secretary general Jérôme Valcke and Local Organising Committee …
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The official 2010 FIFA World Cup tickets are now available to the general public and FIFA World Cup ticketing centres in all nine host countries are packed to capacity!
500,000 tickets for 63 matches (including all host cities and all knock-out matches except the final) will be made available. Five different sales channels will be operating during this fifth and final sales phase, which runs as of today to the last day of the tournament (11th July 2010).
These sales channels include:
• 11 ticketing centres across the host cities open seven …
