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South Africa's Bafana Bafana Take on Mexico
After an impressive 12-game unbeaten run, the stage is now set for hosts Bafana Bafana of South Africa to take on Mexico in the opening match of the first ever soccer World Cup on the African continent.-
South Africa: National Pride Boosts Bafana Against Confident Mexico
allAfrica, 10 June 2010
Hosts South Africa open their 2010 FIFA World Cup Group A campaign against a strong Mexican side at Soccer City in Johannesburg on Friday. Read more »
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South Africa: Heat is On for Hosts Hoping to Stay in the Game
RFI, 11 June 2010
The first football World Cup to take place on the African continent kicks off Friday, with hosts South Africa taking on Mexico. For more than 60 years, the venues were a fight… Read more »
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South Africa: Stage Set for Global Bonanza
Nation, 10 June 2010
The hour has come and Africa's long wait for a Fifa World Cup is finally over. Read more »
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South Africa: Let the Games Begin - the Big Day Arrives
RFI, 11 June 2010
Well it's here. The first day of the rest of the African continent's football life. No longer will there be a chip on the shoulder about being the poor relative of world football.… Read more »
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South Africa: Media Unite for World Cup
The Herald, 11 June 2010
THE South African media has united, in support of Bafana Bafana, as it revels in the euphoria that has been created by its nation’s historic hosting of the 2010 Fifa World… Read more »
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Africa: World Cup Kicks Off Today
Independent (Lagos), 10 June 2010
Africa's own global football mundial, its first gig, begins today - fittingly - in the courtyard of Nelson Mandela, the champion of freedom released from prison two decades ago to… Read more »
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South Africa: Pele Wants African Country in Final
Business Day, 10 June 2010
International football legend Pele is in South Africa to promote the World Cup and his new sport clothing line, Pele Sports. Read more »
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South Africa: Parreira Declares 'War' as Bafana Take On World
Business Day, 11 June 2010
WILY Bafana Bafana coach Carlos Alberto Parreira and his Mexico counterpart, Javier Aguirre, yesterday exchanged psychological salvos and tried to unsettle each other ahead of the… Read more »
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South Africa: We Are Ready for the World, Says Govt
BuaNews, 11 June 2010
Years of hard work is expected to reap its rewards today when the soccer World Cup kicks off on South African soil. Read more »
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South Africa: Mexico Confronts S'africa in World Cup Opener
Independent (Lagos), 10 June 2010
South Africa will come alive later today, as the 2010 edition of the World Cup taking place in the Africa continent for the first time in history of the game kicks off. South… Read more »
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South Africa: Football for the Few
RFI, 10 June 2010
It's not surprising that a couple of hundred thousand people took to the streets of Johannesburg to cheer on the South Africa soccer team during an open top bus ride through the… Read more »
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Africa: World Cup - the Big Kick-Off is Here
Vanguard, 11 June 2010
THE stage is set for the biggest sports show on earth and world attention is focused on South Africa as the one-month soccer fiesta kicks off this afternoon at the Soccer City… Read more »
