Category Archives: sport

Helen Zille in a Mamelodi Sundowns Shirt

By 6000 | 6000 | December 15, 2009

I need to sleep. Desperately. Tiredness has caught up with me after I failed to return to my slumbers last night after a particularly vivid dream involving Helen Zille opening a soccer centre in Khayelitsha, resplendent in a Mamelodi Sundowns shirt. (Ms Zille, not the soccer centre). A quick search of the local news sites [...]

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FIFA World Cup Draw Photos

By 6000 | 6000 | December 5, 2009

Photos from the Long Street party, Signal Hill, the City Bowl and the awesome, awesome Cape Town Stadium on the night that Cape Town welcomed the world to the 2010 FIFA World Cup Draw.   After we had watched the draw, we headed up onto Signal Hill to take a look at the Stadium where [...]

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Beckham lauds SA

By 6000 | 6000 | December 3, 2009

LA Galaxy, AC Milan and England midfielder David Beckham is here in Cape Town for the World Cup Draw tomorrow evening and took time out of his busy schedule with FIFA to give an interview to… FIFA. Unsurprisingly, (for all the reasons you are thinking of, be they contractual or otherwise) he seems happy to be here: [...]

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A Seedy Business

By 6000 | 6000 | December 2, 2009

The seedings for the 2010 World Cup Draw are announced today. They are based on the FIFA world ranking of the teams in question, together with the performance of the nations in the last three World Cup Tournaments. However, the actual formula used is a top secret blend of 13 herbs and spices which means [...]

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Lucky

By 6000 | 6000 | December 1, 2009

I don’t want to come over all gushy and emotional here, but I have just been into town (more specifically the Waterfront and Green Point) and there is an unbelievable vibe in the Mother City right now. I feel so lucky to be here and be a part of it. The combination of the start [...]

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