Category Archives: world cup 2010

Brazil again

By 6000 | 6000 | November 20, 2009

As the last of the 32 teams to qualify for next year’s World Cup in South Africa were decided this week (some more honourably than others), only now do our local newspapers reveal that we’re wasting time, money and effort on the whole competition. Because they already know who will be the winners: Football’s romantics [...]

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Sorry seems to be the easiest word…

By 6000 | 6000 | November 19, 2009

Wow. Much drama from last night’s play-offs for the final *counts* six berths in the World Cup here next year. As if the entire Sudanese army turning out for the “Match of Hate” between Egypt and Algeria wasn’t enough (and according to reports, it actually wasn’t enough) we then had more drama in the dramatic [...]

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A Shocking Discovery

By 6000 | 6000 | November 12, 2009

As each new batch of Bruce Sutherland’s superb work is released onto the web on the City of Cape Town’s 2010 Gallery page, the images circulate around Cape Town and the broader environment by email and make their way onto blogs, usually without any credit for the photographer. But that’s not all. In addition, there [...]

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Hang on a minute!

By 6000 | 6000 | November 11, 2009

Cape Town‘s Integrated Rapid Transport Strategy has hit another snag ahead of the World Cup next year: Fare dodgers. Apparently this guy got on without paying a cent. Fortunately, the police were quickly on the scene to arrest him. This one has been doing the rounds here for the past couple of days, but I [...]

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Light up, light up!

By 6000 | 6000 | October 23, 2009

(As Snow Patrol once told us.) They were testing the lights at the Green Point Cape Town Stadium last night. Flickr user donaldza was there to catch it. Thanks, donaldza. Bigger version here. Truly magnificent. EDIT: Just been sent these by email. Arguably even more magnificenterer. (That may not actually be a word.) Bigger versions [...]

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