The agenda not been finalised, so it is not clear if the FIFA scandal and handing South Africa the opportunity to host the 2010 Football World Cup will be raised at the African Union summit in Sandton next weekend.
Explaining to this to reporters, foreign affairs cghief Maite Nkoana Mashebane joined the ranks of her colleagues defending government’ action on this issue.

The South African government’s cooperating the FIFA and Swiss investigations into alleged irregularities in awarding the hosting of the World Cup, insists Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Maite Nkoana Mashebane.
She’s unstinting in her assessment of what the 2010 World Cup meant.
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The there are three questions, she says, was this an African World Cup, was it successful and was it run competently. All three receive a resounding yes.

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