
ZAM Afrikajournalisten Thumbs up for South Africa!
Nine out of ten foreigners visiting South Africa for the purposes of the World Cup say that they would recommend South Africa to friends or family as a holiday destination, according to African Response’s World Cup Visitor Survey.
The survey included 722 tourists, inter...viewed in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban and Pretoria and investigated perceptions of the various elements of the South African experience, including roads, accommodation, stadia, policing and safety, amongst others.
“Post...
Source:Miriam Mannak
Published:2010-07-16 10:12:18 GMT

ZAM Afrikajournalisten Yellow cards & kicks in the chest
One of the things the 2010 world cup final between The Netherlands and Spain will be remembered for, except for the Spanish victory and Nigel de Jong kicking Xabi Alonso in the chest, is how referee Howard Webb dished the one yellow card after another.
In total Webb han...ded out 14 yellow cards and one red card.
According to the referee this was necessary to keep control over both teams....
Source:Miriam Mannak
Published:2010-07-14 13:41:12 GMT

ZAM Afrikajournalisten china and africa
Four years ago, during my travels in South America, I visited Chile. I loved the country. If it would have not been the completely other side of the world, I would seriously consider moving there. Only one thing I found strange: many Chileans – although certainly not al...l – told me they still loved General Augusto Pinochet, the cruel dictator who killed socialist president Salvador Allende in 1973, and then reigned over the country...
Published:2010-07-12 11:50:23 GMT

ZAM Afrikajournalisten South Africa wins 2010 World Cup!
South Africa can be proud. Super proud. Uber proud. Why? Because the country and its people have shown the world what they are all about. This land has managed to prove the nay-sayers wrong, by showing them that the Rain Bow nation is more then the usual clichés.
No, there have not been terror attacks....
Source:Miriam Mannak
Published:2010-07-08 18:15:32 GMT

ZAM Afrikajournalisten World Cup: 5 million stadium guests
Attendance at the 2010 World Cup has reached three million after the semi-final between Germany and Spain, FIFA has said.
Spokesman Nicolas Maingot said this figure included only the number of people who had watched games at the various stadiums around the country and e...xcluded football fans at the various FIFA Fan Fests and Public Viewing Areas.
The only other World Cups to have been attended by three million spectators were the tournament...
Source:Miriam Mannak
Published:2010-07-07 15:35:33 GMT

ZAM Afrikajournalisten Cape Town’s World Cup curtain closes
Yesterday Thousands of capetonians and visitors, from all walks of live gathered in Cape Town’s city center for what would be the very last Soccer World Cup fan Walk. Stretching fron the Grand Parade, Home of Cape Town’s Fan Fest, to the football stadium this route has ...been one of the most successful world cup events in South Africa’s Mother City.
Despite the chill in the air, 49 000 people gathered at...
Source:Miriam Mannak
Published:2010-07-07 15:07:55 GMT

ZAM Afrikajournalisten WK in Zuid-Afrika wordt Blatter’s Waterloo
Sepp Blatter is een meester in het beledigen van weldenkende mensen. De hele wereld valt over de arrogantie en wanpraktijken van zijn organisatie FIFA heen, maar de voorzitter negeert alle kritiek en blijft zijn riedeltje herhalen. ‘Het WK in Zuid-Afrika...
Source:Arnold Pannenborg
Published:2010-07-06 13:08:51 GMT

ZAM Afrikajournalisten Ghana verpest ultieme kans op halve finale
Als er ooit een moment was om als Afrikaans land te schitteren op het WK, dan was het gisteravond tijdens de wedstrijd tussen Ghana en Uruguay. Maar de Ghanezen zagen hun kansen op een halve finale in rook opgaan na...
Source:Arnold Pannenborg
Published:2010-07-03 12:01:56 GMT

ZAM Afrikajournalisten from dj hyve to entertainment group
Kenyan Homeboyz keep the krowd moving, and wants to pull Africa into international entertainment scene.
Sales and scripts Video Journalist NL
Source:Ruud Elmendorp
Published:2010-07-03 13:19:00 GMT

ZAM Afrikajournalisten Black Stars van Afrika zijn ieders favoriete underdog
Ghana is het Zuid-Korea van 2002. De Koreanen drongen door tot de halve finales en de hele wereld stond achter hen. De nieuwe underdog is Ghana, en ook nu hopen voetballiefhebbers op een mooie stunt. Vanavond treden de Black Stars...
Source:Arnold Pannenborg
Published:2010-07-02 09:17:21 GMT

ZAM Afrikajournalisten Nigeriaanse president schorst nationale elftal
Het Nigeriaanse nationale elftal mag de komende twee jaar niet meedoen aan internationale competities en toernooien. President Jonathan Goodluck besloot daartoe na de tegenvallende resultaten van de Super Eagles op het WK. Nigeria zal zich moeten verantwoorden aan de FIFA...
Source:Arnold Pannenborg
Published:2010-07-01 12:07:18 GMT

ZAM Afrikajournalisten England out, Ghana in
In the Round of 16, the second phase of the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa, England was given a thorough hiding by Germany in Bloemfontein this afternoon. The end score of 4-1 shattered the English dream of taking home the prestigious, leaving thousands of suppor...ters close to tears.
The electrifying match was not free of controversy, as the English were denied one goal by the Uruguayan linesman Mauricio Espinosa, who...
Source:Miriam Mannak
Published:2010-06-27 17:05:55 GMT

ZAM Afrikajournalisten Round of 16 match schedule
With the first phase of the 2010 world cup in South Africa being concluded, 16 of the 33 teams have made it to the next phase of the event: the notorious Round of 16. The match schedule of one of the most exciting parts of the world cup football can be found below....
Source:Miriam Mannak
Published:2010-06-27 09:39:30 GMT

ZAM Afrikajournalisten World Cup’s 16 group winners
After a series of spectacular and less spectacular football matches, held in nine different host cities, the first phase of the 2010 football world cup in South Africa has come to and end. Of the 32 different teams, which are divided over 8 groups, only 16 have qualified to carry on....
Source:Miriam Mannak
Published:2010-06-27 09:20:10 GMT

ZAM Afrikajournalisten anc down the drain
Often when I read the newspaper in South Africa, I have to laugh, especially when it concerns stories about the ANC. Take yesterday’s The Times newspaper in which an article on page six read: ‘Cosatu [workers union] general-secretary Zwelinzima Vavi has been given a “lo...ng rope” to hang himself after the ANC’s National Working Committee decided not to drag him to a disciplinary hearing after he [most likely fully justified] accused...
Published:2010-06-24 16:19:47 GMT

ZAM Afrikajournalisten Bafana’s second goal!
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Source:Miriam Mannak
Published:2010-06-22 17:07:55 GMT

ZAM Afrikajournalisten De Jabulani: Een verschrikkelijke, behekste WK-bal
In 2004 was er een Italiaanse priester nodig om de wedstrijdbal van het EK van ongeluk te ontdoen. Dit jaar is de klachtenregen over de officiële WK-bal tot epische proporties gegroeid. Professionele keepers zijn verworden tot grabbelaars. Zou Adidas dan...
Source:Arnold Pannenborg
Published:2010-06-22 08:18:32 GMT

ZAM Afrikajournalisten Afrikaanse taferelen bij Frankrijk en Engeland
Het kan verkeren. Normaal gesproken zijn het de Afrikaanse landen die voor onrust zorgen op het WK. Nu het WK op Afrikaanse bodem wordt gehouden, zijn het juist de Europese ploegen waarbinnen de chaos regeert. Vier jaar geleden stonden de...
Source:Arnold Pannenborg
Published:2010-06-21 12:33:47 GMT

ZAM Afrikajournalisten Afrikaanse taferelen bij Frankrijk en Engeland
Het kan verkeren. Normaal gesproken zijn het de Afrikaanse landen die voor onrust zorgen op het WK. Nu het WK op Afrikaanse bodem wordt gehouden, zijn het juist de Europese ploegen waarbinnen de chaos regeert. Vier jaar geleden stonden de...
Source:Arnold Pannenborg
Published:2010-06-21 12:33:47 GMT

ZAM Afrikajournalisten Ivoorkust eindelijk verlost van favorietenrol
Wat dé wedstrijd van de groepsfase van het WK had moeten worden, eindigde in een deceptie. Niet alleen rolde Brazilië de Ivorianen met speels gemak op, de Olifanten misdroegen zich flink op het veld. Vooral de aanstellerij van Abdelkader Keita...
Source:Arnold Pannenborg
Published:2010-06-21 08:56:17 GMT

ZAM Afrikajournalisten Nigeriaan Kaita met de dood bedreigd
Tijdens de wedstrijd tegen Griekenland op donderdag kreeg Sani Kaita de rode kaart. Daarmee leidde hij de ondergang van zijn land Nigeria in. Sindsdien ontving de Nigeriaan al zeker duizend doodsbedreigingen via de mail. Het was een ongelooflijk domme actie...
Source:Arnold Pannenborg
Published:2010-06-21 08:18:09 GMT

ZAM Afrikajournalisten All support Bafana Bafana!
South Africans from all background are coming together in support of Bafana Bafana, who will play against France in the 2010 World Cup Soccer tomorrow.
The last football match South Africa’s national team, led by coach Parreira, played ended in a 3-0 for Uruguay. Accor...ding to many football fans losing was not what was painful about this particular match: it was the red card goal keeper Khune received from referee Busacca....
Source:Miriam Mannak
Published:2010-06-21 08:06:09 GMT

ZAM Afrikajournalisten Status van Kameroen is gebaseerd op folklore
Kameroen staat bekend als een van de beste Afrikaanse voetballanden. Die titel hebben ze vooral te danken aan één succes: het bereiken van de kwartfinales op het WK van 1990. Sindsdien hebben de Ontembare Leeuwen niets meer gepresteerd op het...
Source:Arnold Pannenborg
Published:2010-06-20 12:02:54 GMT

ZAM Afrikajournalisten i wish i were…
Life in South Africa can be so sweet – if you have the money for it. Some people do. Most of them don’t. The gap is very visible and I’m always astonished by how insisting people can be in ignoring. It just lives nicer within a bubble…
In Camps Bay the rich and the beau...tiful and the wannabes of these categories meet for “sundowners”....
Published:2010-06-20 12:09:18 GMT

ZAM Afrikajournalisten Penaltykiller Gyan houdt Ghana in de race
De overwinning op Servië smaakte naar meer. Helaas voor Ghana kwamen ze op zaterdagmiddag niet voorbij Australië, dat lange tijd met tien man op het veld stond. Toch houden de Ghanezen zicht op de tweede ronde. Met vier punten uit...
Source:Arnold Pannenborg
Published:2010-06-20 08:32:35 GMT

ZAM Afrikajournalisten I took some great pictures during the 20
I took some great pictures during the 2010 world cup match between Algeria & England in Cape Town. Check them out! http://ow.ly/20FD2
Source:Miriam Mannak
Published:2010-06-19 16:56:33 GMT

ZAM Afrikajournalisten Mexico slaughters France with 2-0
Last night the Chicharito’s proved to be too strong for Les Bleus. The match between Mexico and France, which was held in Polokwane, ended in a smashing 2-0 for the Mexicans, leaving the French close to tears.
“I remembered my grandfather in the locker room,” Mexico’s J...avier Hernandez was quoted by AP after the match. Last night, he emulated his grandfather by a scoring a World Cup goal against France in 1954....
Source:Miriam Mannak
Published:2010-06-18 08:55:56 GMT

ZAM Afrikajournalisten 3 yrs for stolen world cup tix
A special World Cup Court in Pretoria, South Africa’s administrative capital, has sentenced a man to three years in jail for the possession of a couple of dozen stolen 2010 FIFA World Cup tickets.
According to the police, Kunle Benjamin was arrested in Sunnyside, a P...retoria suburb, on Sunday after he was noticed driving erratically....
Source:Miriam Mannak
Published:2010-06-18 08:17:03 GMT

ZAM Afrikajournalisten Nigeria benadeeld na verstandsverbijsting Kaita
Met nul punten uit twee wedstrijden is de tweede ronde heel ver weg voor de Nigeriaanse Super Eagles. Grote boosdoener in de wedstrijd tegen Griekenland is Sani Kaita, die op bizarre wijze uithaalt naar een tegenstander en met rood van...
Source:Arnold Pannenborg
Published:2010-06-17 15:55:31 GMT

ZAM Afrikajournalisten Upcoming World Cup games
The rest of the week South Africa will be staging several exciting World Cup matches. Please find the schedule of the games scheduled for the rest of this week (June 17 – June 20) below. For the entire wo0rld cup football match schedule, click here!
GROUP A (South Afric...a / Mexico / Uruguay / France):
June 17 2010 @ 20:30: France vs Mexico – Polokwane
GROUP B (Argentina / Nigeria / Korea...
Source:Miriam Mannak
Published:2010-06-17 11:58:11 GMT

ZAM Afrikajournalisten S.Africa slams Ref’s red card
South Africans from all backgrounds have reacted in disappointment and frustration at Uruguay’s victory in their football match against Bafana Bafana, their second showdown during the 2010 World Cup.
The main reason for the frustration is the red card given to goalkeepe...r Khune by referee Busacca. The event has been described as unfair, not necessary and plain ignorant.
As the http://2010.mg.co.za/article/2010-06-17-furious-bafana-coach-parreira-slams-referee wrote: From the media tribune and television replays, referee Busacca appeared to...
Source:Miriam Mannak
Published:2010-06-17 07:29:35 GMT












