South Africa: Five Talking Points From Fikile Mbalula's Wednesday Press Conference

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At a press conference on Wednesday, South Africa's Minister of Sport and Recreation hardly offered any new insight into South Africa's alleged involvement in the ongoing FIFA corruption scandal, but when you pick through the bile, there are a few key points to note. By ANTOINETTE MULLER.

If you were hoping to learn anything new from Fikile Mbalula's press conference regarding South Africa's alleged involvement in a bribery scandal, you would have been massively disappointed on Wednesday. Members of the 2010 Soccer World Cup local organising committee were supposed to present too, but withdrew at the last minute. When Mbalula arrived to address the press, he simply said: The LOC has been disbanded, it has served its purpose.

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