South Africa
Business

One of the highlights of the three-day Soccerex Conference will be the World Cup Focus panel titled; leaving a legacy - The commercial benefits of CSR.
Stadia

FIFA has invited interested parties with the ‘necessary international event experience’ to participate in FIFA’s public tender for the sale, management and production of the FIFA Hospitality Programme.
Business

South Africa’s national soccer team is toasting one of the biggest sponsorship deals in its history.
Events

The 2010 FIFA World Cup is within budget and on target to meet financial and infrastructure objectives, according to the organising committee CEO Danny Jordaan.
Media

ESPN STAR Sports has revealed its broadcast rights partnerships for the first edition of the ICC World Twenty20 scheduled to take place in September 2007 in South Africa.
Media

The IAAF completed sales for the TV rights for its World Championships in Athletics, which open on 25 August in Osaka Japan.
Business

FIFA agreed a deal with Telkom South Africa as a National Supporter of the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ in the category of fixed-line telecommunications.
Media

The battle over soccer TV rights was settled, according to South African media reports, with an agreement in which the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) will screen 143 Premier Soccer League matches.
Media

According to reports the SANZAR rugby unions have been warned by their national broadcast partners that a repeat of this season’s selection policy – in which under-strength sides were fielded - would not be tolerated.
Media

The International Olympic Committee awarded the broadcast rights for the Olympic Games in 2010 and 2012 to South African public-service broadcaster SABC.
Business

Hong Kong-based sports marketing company ActionHouse International has become a major shareholder of Valke Rugby, the professional South African Rugby Club who were Champions of the Vodacom Cup in 2006.
Events

The 2010 World Cup local organising committee came out in support of the South African Premier Soccer League’s decision to award its TV rights to pay-broadcaster SuperSport.
Media

South Africa’s Premier Soccer League is in talks with public-service broadcaster the SABC in order to try and negotiate a compromise in the row over the league’s TV rights.
Stadia

South Africa’s Western Province Rugby Union is looking to move rugby out of its traditional home at Newlands to Cape Town’s new Green Point Stadium after
the 2010 World Cup.
Events

With the qualifying round for the FIFA 2010 World Cup™ taking place in Durban, South Africa, just two days before Soccerex 2007 kicks off, football federations from around the world will descend on South Africa during November.
Media

Media Partners & Silva agreed a deal with South African pay-broadcaster SuperSport for the TV rights for Italy’s Serie A in South Africa.
Business

FIFA president Joseph S. Blatter was re-elected for a third term yesterday after standing unopposed at the organisation's 57th annual congress. Blatter reiterated his stance that the 2010 World Cup would definitely be hosted by South Africa despite constant speculation that the country may not be ready.
Events

ESPN-Star Sports acquired the broadcast rights for cricket’s Afro-Asia Cup after Nimbus pullled out of the deal. Nimbus meanwhile acquired the rights for the India-South Africa ODI series.