The City of Cape Town’s latest housing initiative is to relocate street children and homeless people 30 km away from the city centre. Critics call the plan a ‘clean-up operation’ for the World Cup, while the municipal government defends it as a humane programme that happens to coincide with the tournament.

Although official reports praise the economic benefit following the SA World Cup, reality is a potentially negative effect on local businesses and industries.

South African state prosecutors have found evidence that a man - who allegedly appeared on a national TV news programme saying that he would "rob and kill" tourists during the 2010 World Cup - may be schizophrenic.

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has banned Togo from the next two Africa Cup of Nations, following their withdrawal from this year's tournament.

FIFA has moved to quell anxiety in the South African media over press freedom by making written promises to a group of media owners in a letter received by Play the Game.

South Africa’s Competition Commission (CC) has started an investigation into price-fixing among six leading airlines that will take thousands of supporters to this summer’s World Cup finals in South Africa.

FIFA general secretary Jerome Valcke has cited media in England and Germany as being behind a wave of negative publicity ahead of this summer’s World Cup in South Africa.

FIFA have met with the South Africa media pressure group concerned over the implications of the press accreditation rules for this summer’s world cup but are refusing to disclose details of the meeting on January 21.