Ever watch the World Cup at South Africa and wonder what that background noise that sounds like a raging bee hive is about? Wonder no more. Enter the Vuvuzela, South Africa’s own version of a blowing horn. The Vuvuzela requires some lip and lung strength to produce a loud B flat tone that emits all [...]
As sport’s biggest spectacle opens in South Africa, Team Mexico stuns the home crowd as they deliver a 1-1 draw against the home team. Hundreds of millions watched as South Africa’s own Siphiwe Tshabalala scored the first ever goal of the 2010 World Cup early into the second half that erupted into a celebration for [...]
At 4 p.m. today(10 a.m. ET), South Africa becomes the center of global attention, as the world’s most popular sport and sport’s most followed competition finally opens it’s doors. Thousands of football fans from around the world are expected to fill up the Soccer City stadium in Johannesburg for the opening ceremony of the world [...]
MOGADISHU (AFP) – – Somali soldiers on Thursday launched a major counter-offensive to recapture recently lost ground from Islamist insurgents in Mogadishu, sparking a fierce battle that left at least 21 civilians dead. Newly-trained government forces backed by the African Union mission in Somalia (AMISOM) kicked off their operation early in northwestern Mogadishu, drawing a [...]
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