Johannesburg - Football fans applied for over 1.6 million tickets for the 2010 football World Cup in South Africa in the first phase of ticket sales that ended Tuesday night, world football body FIFA announced Wednesday.
The biggest chunk of the 1,635,136 applications - 30 per cent - came from the host nation, followed by the US, the UK, Germany, Italy and Australia, FIFA said in a statement. Some 740,000 tickets were up for grabs.
Johannesburg (South Africa), Apr. 1 : A horrifying investigative film has exposed how prisoners in President Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe are dying from either disease or hunger.
The documentary, shown last night on South Africa''s state broadcaster SABC, documented the "living hell" for prisoners across 55 state institutions.
"Hell Hole", as the film is titled, is a grim account of a crisis in which dozens of inmates die each day, reports The Times.
Johannesburg - South African police have arrested a man after discovering the carcasses of lions and rhinoceroses strewn around a house in the capital, Pretoria, local media reported Wednesday.
Police were tipped off by the Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Animals after an inspector stumbled across the bones at the residence in the upmarket Waterkloof suburb, the South African Press Association reported.
Many diplomatic residences and an air force base are located in Waterkloof.
Johannesburg (South Africa), Mar. 31 : Ricky Ponting insists Australia''s South African tour hasn''t run off the rails despite three successive losses to the Proteas.
Ponting''s men must regroup for the opening one-day international in Durban on April 3 after losing the third Test by an innings and 20 runs, Friday''s first Twenty20 International by four wickets in the final over and Sunday''s second Twenty20 game by 17 runs.
Johannesburg - Southern African leaders were meeting in the mountain kingdom of Swaziland on Monday to discuss an aid package for hard-pressed Zimbabwe and punitive measures against Madagascar following the ousting of the island's president.
Heads of state or government from at least half of the 15 members of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) had arrived in the Swazi capital Mbabane for the one-day summit, a Swazi government spokeswoman said.
Johannesburg - Football fans applied for over 1.6 million tickets for the 2010 football World Cup in South Africa in the first phase of ticket sales that ended Tuesday night, world football body FIFA announced Wednesday.
Johannesburg (South Africa), Apr. 1 : A horrifying investigative film has exposed how prisoners in President Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe are dying from either disease or hunger.
Johannesburg - South African police have arrested a man after discovering the carcasses of lions and rhinoceroses strewn around a house in the capital, Pretoria, local media reported Wednesday.
Johannesburg (South Africa), Mar. 31 : Ricky Ponting insists Australia''s South African tour hasn''t run off the rails despite three successive losses to the Proteas.
Johannesburg - US popstar Madonna attended a court hearing in Malawi on Monday in her bid to adopt a second child in the southern African country. 
Johannesburg - Southern African leaders were meeting in the mountain kingdom of Swaziland on Monday to discuss an aid package for hard-pressed Zimbabwe and punitive measures against Madagascar following the ousting of the island's president. 
