From South Africa – The Good News
Vuvuzelas brayed and construction workers cheered as President Jacob
Zuma kicked off the 365-day countdown to the 2010 World Cup in Cape
Town on Thursday.
We have made it, he said, before booting a Fifa-approved soccer ball
off a stand at a ceremony in the three-quarters-complete R4.45 billion
Greenpoint stadium.
The tournament gets under way on June 11 next year at Soccer City in Johannesburg.
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