Business Day (Johannesburg)
18 June 2009
A near-hysterical Dutch journalist yesterday voiced his intense dislike for the South African vuvuzela to Fifa president Sepp Blatter, asking the world football boss if it would not be possible for the "noisy and irritating instrument" to be banned before the start of the Soccer World Cup next June.
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allAfrica.com
17 June 2009
Although South Africa and Egypt, Africa's representatives at the Confederations Cup, failed to win maximum points in their first games, they are still very much in the tournament and their performances give cause for optimism.
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SouthAfrica.info (Johannesburg)
18 June 2009
What's plastic, a metre long, brightly coloured and sounds like an elephant? It's the vuvuzela, the noise-making trumpet of South African football fans, and it's come to symbolise the sport in the country.
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Please change the spelling for the Tshivenda word in the article. It's not 'mhalamhala' but it's written as PHALAPHALA. It's traditionally a Kudu horn.