Benni Mc Carthy Takes a Shot Against Jamaica

Maybe the "weakened" Jamaica was a better opponent for South Africa, because Bafana Bafana managed to play forward although they were held to a goalless draw at Vodacom Stadium on Tuesday.

That means the 2010 World Cup hosts have now scored just six goals in their last 12 internationals.

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Carlos Alberto Parreira

The recent re-appointment of Carlos Alberto Parreira as coach of South Africa, replacing fellow Brazilian Joel Santana who had been hired on Parreira's recommendation, ignited that perennial question: is a national team, particularly one on the periphery of world football, better served by a local or an outsider?

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Bafana's Brazilian coach, Joel Santana, is out of a job. Pallid performances and pitiful results sunk the former Flamengo coach. "In the bigger picture and the interest of the country," said Mandla Mazibuko, SAFA vice-president, "he [Santana] realized while he was doing his best, his best was not good enough.

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Somehow it feels like that day that FIFA President Sepp Blatter opened the Envelope and said South Africa was just the other day. The image of Madiba holding the solid gold World Cup Trophy above his head was busying into our minds as we realised that the World Cup was truly coming to Africa, to South Africa in 2010.

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World Cup 2010 gets the expose-esque documentary treatment from South African filmmaker Craig Tanner and Levitation Films. It already caused a bit of a stir at the Durban International Film Festival and looks to repeat the trick worldwide upon it's release (date TBD).
According to the filmmakers "Fahrenheit 2010 cuts through the hype, with an uncompromising examination of what the World Cup means for South Africans themselves - in particular, who actually stands to benefit from the diversion of millions of dollars to build 21st century sports arenas in a country in which, 15 years after throwing off apartheid's yoke, millions live in shacks and have no access to water – a South Africa where life expectancy has plummeted to below that of Ethiopia. Click to continue reading...

.With less than a year to go before the 2010 World cup is dictating diaries and breaking up marriages, everyone is desperate to get their hands on a ticket to South Africa. So what better way to kick off a nostalgic look back at the Premier League's past then to look at some of the [...] Click to continue reading...

Charlize Theron

I'm a huge fan of Charlize Theron so was delighted to learn that she's a celeb who gives back. As a native of South Africa, it makes sense that her charitable efforts focus on the youth of her struggling but extraordinary country.

The Charlize Theron African Outreach Project and the LAFC Chelsea Soccer Club have joined forces to give kids living in underserved communities – in Southern California and Umkhanyakude District of the KwaZulu-Natal Province in South Africa – more opportunities to play competitive soccer.

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