Africa

The Soccerex Global Convention is to feature a select best practice workshop that will bring the past South African and present Brazilian host cities together to discuss the key issues behind the hosting of a successful World Cup.

The future of Cape Town Stadium took an encouraging turn after confirmation it will hold an Absa Premiership football double-header to open the season on Friday August 27.

Elections for the executive committee of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) have been re-scheduled for Thursday because of unresolved complaints raised by some candidates.

Zimbabwe's football federation yesterday suspended its chief executive, Henrietta Rushwaya, on suspicion of fixing the national team's matches during a tour of Asia last December.

The African continent has been encouraged by the recent FIFA World Cup in South Africa to consider a bid for the IAAF World Championships in 2017, the president of the African Athletics Confederation revealed.

Exclusive research for SportBusiness by SMG Insight and YouGov, a new partnership company specialising in sports and sponsorship research, has revealed official sponsors outstripped their ambush rivals at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa with regards to their perception as FIFA partners.

Pan-regional broadcaster Eurosport has acquired exclusive European media rights for the Champions League Twenty20 cricket tournament, to be held in September in South Africa, in a three-year deal with rights holder ESPN STAR Sports.

Sasol, the biggest maker of motor fuel from coal, has failed to agree an extension for its sponsorship of the Springboks, the rugby union World Cup winning team, which ends this year.

Cricket South Africa plans to lure the largest crowd to a cricket match in the country by hosting a Twenty20 match against India at the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban, built for this year’s football World Cup.

Average daily Visa transactions by international visitors in South Africa - from the start of June until the end of the day of the World Cup final - exceeded £204 million, up 70 per cent compared to the same period in 2009.

International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge said yesterday it was time for South Africa to decide whether it was ready to host the Summer Olympics after successfully staging this year's FIFA World Cup.

Formula One is in discussions to host a grand prix in South Africa in around three year’s time according to the sport's commercial supremo Bernie Ecclestone.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has declared his backing to a possible 2020 Olympic bid from a city in this year’s World Cup host country South Africa.

With South Africa revelling in World Cup glory, the future of sport tourism is discussed.

South Africa’s government has started an investigation after it was revealed public-owned companies spent 110 million rand ($14.3 million) purchasing World Cup tickets.

Vuvuzelas - the plastic horns that won international fame at this year’s World Cup in South Africa - are not going to be allowed when South Africa face New Zealand in a rugby Test match at the same venue of the football tournament final.