
Watch the 2010 FIFA TV ad
The first official 2010 TVC was launcehed at the Indaba on saturday 9 May and will be flighting globally to over 600 milion viewers on the following channels - CNN, Eurosport, News Corp, Nat Geo and BBC.
The new 2010 Website was also launched - so please go and visit the SAT web site and see the 2010 site on www.southafrica.net
Here is the ad...featuring the vuvuzela!
Our glass is half-full

By Max du Preez
The proverbial glass has been horribly half-empty in South Africa recently. Here, on the day before the fourth proper general elections in our history, are five reasons why we should notice that that very same glass is actually half-full.
Firstly, we are holding an election to choose people to represent us in Parliament.
The Book Lounge in Roeland Street Cape Town


This independent shop offers everything a book lover could want:
Two floors packed with books and periodicals, friendly and extremely well-informed staff, and a cosy, relaxing lounge area downstairs, where you can chill with coffee or tea and cake.

Graham Beck or Moet? Two presidents choose
You have to wonder why Jacob Zuma chose Moet when Barrack Obama's choice was Graham Beck! Although it was perhaps not actually Zuma's choice (since he is a teetotaller). Still, that is what the guests drank at his inauguration. As a champagne-loving South African tax payer I would have been happier if they had gone with Obama's selection

Slowdown ... What slowdown? South Africa joins glitzy art auction circuit!
You could have been forgiven for thinking you had stumbled into the Annual Oil Baron's Ball if you found yourself at the Johannesburg auction last week of the private art collection of

Teachers, nurses, farmers ... South Africans accept juicy invites from abroad
Financial Mail reports that South African farmers are

Zuma: bad pres
The media have been going after this guy for the better part of 10 years. They have not managed to get him
The Queen of SA pop Brenda Fassie!
She sang in the 'kwaito' township style - a combination of hip-hop, slowed-down 'house' music with traditional African bass, sung mainly in Xhosa, Zulu and Sotho.
Indeed, she has been called a pioneer, a trendsetter and an icon whose passing has left a huge vacuum in the music industry.
Culturally connect Cape Town
The CAPE AFRICA PLATFORM (CAPE) aims to culturally connect Cape Town, South Africa, Africa and the Diaspora by creating a ground-breaking contemporary African art event - rooted in the local but global in impact.
The 2009 event is here:
Please join us for the official opening of Cape 09 at Lookout Hill in Khayelitsha (crn Spine Rd & Mew Way Rd) at 2pm
with performances by poets Bulelwa Basse and Nobuhle Ketelo,
Super Grooves
Very shallow gene pool!
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FreshlyGround and Shakira, 2010 FIFA







