New Delhi, Feb. 18 : During the upcoming International Engineering and Technology Fair (IETF) 2009, South African company `Sasol' will be showcasing technology to convert coal into gas and liquid forms.

This technology can be harnessed to meet India's energy requirement, said the country''s High Commissioner to India, Sehloho Francis Moloi.

Addressing a press conference organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) to announce the 18th edition of IETF 2009, Moloi further stated: "South Africa's partnership during IETF 2009 is aimed towards achieving bilateral trade target of 12 billion dollars by

Johannesburg - Tickets for the 2010 football World Cup in South Africa go on sale on Friday on the fifa. com website at 11 a. m. GMT.

Following is the procedure for obtaining a ticket:

-- Register on the FIFA Club free of charge on http://www.fifa.com/theclub/index.html

-- Then fill out the ticket application form. You can apply for one of two ticket types: a ticket to a specific match or a team specific ticket
(TST) series.

Johannesburg - World football body FIFA aims to prevent a black market trade in cheap tickets for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa by making tickets for the tournament only available for collection in the country, FIFA announced Wednesday.

Tickets for the tournament go on sale to the general public on Friday on FIFA's website, fifa. com, and through nationwide branches of South Africa's First National Bank (FNB), a national World Cup sponsor.

This sale starts online at 11 a. m. GMT (1 p. m. South African time) and runs until March 31.

Johannesburg, Feb. 18 : Captains of Australia and South Africa -- Ricky Ponting and Graeme Smith - are leaving no stone unturned in upping the ante through mind games ahead of what promises to be a competitive Test series on South African soil.

While Ponting has said that his side and he are not in South Africa to pass on the baton of World Champions to South Africa, Smith as rubbished his Australian counterparts claims of his side being under pressure to retain the tag of favourites to win in the wake of the Proteas series victory in Australia.

Johannesburg/London - South African authorities on Tuesday announced the formation of a special task team to tackle drug smuggling through the country's airports.

The announcement follows the discovery by authorities at London's Heathrow airport Monday of five kilogrammes of cocaine in luggage allegedly belonging to South African Airways (SAA) crew.

The find is the second such case of alleged drug smuggling by SAA

crew through Heathrow in less than a month.

Sydney/Johannesburg, Feb. 17 : Australian captain Ricky Ponting wanted to learn all he could about the youngest member of the touring squad, Phillip Hughes, and would have been most surprised to hear that Hughes loves to breed and show chickens.

For Hughes, this activity is a passion, but he rarely talks about it.

"He used to show chooks, and he used to help me breed them. It is something he keeps very close to him, and it is something he can''t do in the city, but it was one of his hobbies," the Sydney Morning Herald quoted his father, Greg, as saying.