- People in Africa will exerience the WC at close range but it will prove very far for a lot of people, to actually enjoy it and take part in it. At least thats what I concluded after I went around the capital, Pretoria.

- FOREIGN JOURNO ROBBED AT GUN POINT IN THE CAPITAL By Joseph T Maramba, Zimbabwean Journalist in Pretoria Within hours after the start of the much anticipated FIFA 2010World Cup here in South Africa, an online sports writer from Hamburg’s Die Zeit online newspaper was robbed at gun point of all his belongings in the dusty and extremely dangerous area of Marabastad, the city’s notorious and crime infested outskirts. Just a few hours after the first match, the journalist, offering a ride home to a local kid who had been begging on an intersection just close to the scene of the crime, found South Africa to be more than what he had expected. “When I dropped him off at this…