by R. Asmerom With all the hundreds of thousands of soccer fans who came to South Africa this summer to attend the World Cup, you’d think the financial returns would prove a win-win for the popular tourist destination; however, The Telegraph is reporting that South Africa only recouped 10-11 percent of the money it spent […]
(The Week) — World Cup fans inject $5 billion into South Africa’s economy and were sending 4,000 Tweets per second at the height of the action. That’s just the beginning…The World Cup is over: Spain are champions, South Africa won the respect of nearly everyone with its hosting prowess, and Paul the “psychic” octopus became […]
South Africa hoping to sustain economic success set by World Cup.
From one hip to another, this should be good!
(AP) — Nearly 15 million Americans tuned in to ABC for the team’s 2-1 loss to Ghana, with 4.5 million more watching on the Spanish-language Univision — making it the most-watched men’s World Cup game ever in the country. The World Cup is the fourth-biggest “top productivity sapper” in the U.S., based on a nonscientific […]
He missed the Erin Andrews memo: DON'T mess with female reporters!
(Inc) — Selena Cuffe is the CEO of a company that distributes wine – not usually the traditional drink of soccer fans – yet she’s been looking forward to the World Cup since 2005. That’s when, as a newly minted Harvard MBA on a business trip to South Africa for her then-employer, she attended the first annual Soweto […]
The soccer games promises to boost long-term foreign investment in S.A. We explore how.
I recognize that the World Cup is very significant to many of my brothers and sisters throughout the African diaspora, but I wonder if it will ever hold deep meaning for most of us.
(CNN) — South African activists are staging a “Poor People’s World Cup” to protest the exclusion of poor communities from the FIFA tournament. The Cape Town-based Anti-Eviction Campaign (AEC) says it is staging the event because most South Africans are not benefiting from the official World Cup. It says poor people can’t afford match tickets and […]