South Africa: World Cup - Time to Launch a Creative Economy
For six weeks in 2010, billions of viewers across the globe will focus their eyes on South Africa during the World Cup. Thousands of football fans will flock to the home of Shaka Zulu to support their favourite soccer teams. About 15,000 accredited TV commentators, cameramen, crew and technicians are expected to facilitate live coverage of the games. It is going to be booming business for tour operators, airlines, hotels, cell phone service providers, advertisement agencies, the list is endless.
Uganda: Fuba Calls Up Team for Africa Event
The Federation of Uganda Basketball Associations (Fuba) has summoned over 70 players (boys and girls) for national team trials ahead of the Africa Zone Five U-18 Championships due August 11-15 at Lugogo.
Namibia: Eichab in Third Icelandic Chess Win
THE most successful chess player in Namibia, Charles Eichab, the 2007 national champion did it again when he won the third Namibian, Icelandic International Chess Tournament recently.
Namibia: Stars Unhappy With NPL
AFRICAN Stars yesterday accused the Namibia Premier League (NPL) of acting as both prosecutor and judge by ignoring an earlier protest following an abandoned match against Black Africa last December.
Gambia: Local coaches can do it!
There is this entrenched mind-set among some section of society that what ever belongs to everybody belongs to nobody. This, expressed in both the thinking and the approach of our people to public property, is one of the most deplorable of attitudes for a development oriented society, and it had since become a state of affairs that generations of our people have had to deal with. The attitude is, without an aorta of doubt, the culprit responsible for the snail-pace development the entire continent has been enduring since independence.
Nigeria: Akinwande Stages Comeback Bid
The countdown is on, towards another Nigerian boxer emerging as champion on the world stage in the heavyweight class, after the feats of Samuel Peter, with ex-champion, Henry Akinwande now staging a big comeback.
Nigeria: Lawmakers Declare NSC Illegal - Want Minister, Adamu to Resign Over ...
Just three months to the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, Members of the House of Representatives have adviced the Minister of Sports, Abdurahman Hassan Gimba and the Director- General of the National Sports Commission (NSC), Dr. Amos Adamu to resign their appointments for late and poor preparation of athletes for the upcoming Games.
