With one lash of his left foot, Siphiwe Tshabala set this World Cup alight. His 55th minute strike, which gave South Africa the lead against Mexico, was all the more surprising because the hosts had done little until then to excite the vuvuzela-blowing 85,000-strong crowd. It may have ended in a draw but South Africa [...]
Cross-posted over at the Telegraph Has any team ever had a World Cup preparation as chaotic as Nigeria? The Super Eagles, who are drawn in Group B against Argentina, Greece and South Korea, have stumbled from one disaster after another since qualifying by the skin of their teeth last November. It began with the badly-timed [...]
So wrote Ryszard Kapuscinski in the introduction to ‘Shadow of the Sun’, still one of the best books written by a foreigner about Africa. He is describing Ghana in 1958, but the image he conjures of an Africa bathed in sunlight is still one that springs to mind whenever most people think about the continent. [...]
Over at Africa Is a Country Sean and Sonja have been doing a great job of rounding up the very worst of cliche-ridden World Cup ads from around the world. No ad is complete without wild animals and smiling kids. I’ll post the top three from their site below. But first, here’s the BBC’s effort. (They [...]
Of all the matches at the World Cup, South Korea against Greece is arguably the least exciting prospect. But it is the match that will mean the most for Danny Jordaan, the man responsible for organising the tournament. It is the first to take place at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth, the [...]
A lot of chat today about Nike’s new World Cup advert. It’s got stars, glitz and glamour – as well as a sense of humour – but it’s not a patch on this one from Puma.
Not all South Africans have been supportive of the decision to grant their country the right to host next month’s World Cup. This advert for FNB, a major South African bank, aired in 2006. The fiercest criticism has come from white South Africans, something this advert directly addresses. Note how the white critic says “they” [...]
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