By Andrew WarshawAugust 14 - The man who organised the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa is convinced

Danny Jordaan faced widespread global anxiety over South Africa's notorious crime rate last year but

By David OwenAugust 14 - The South African Government is still mulling entering the race for the 2020

Contacted this weekend, Gideon Sam, President of the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic

comes up," Sam said.Minister of Sport and Recreation Fikile Mbalula is widely seen as a rising star of South

Africa, had "brought lasting benefits to our country and continent".Recent months have seen much debate

Africa will bid for 2020 Olympics?

on cards, reveals SamJune 2011: South Africa may still bid for 2020 Olympics claims Sports Minister

race in Lignano in Italy.The significance of the time was that it meant the double leg amputee from South

Africa, competing with the carbon fibre legs he runs on, had surpassed the A standard time of 45.25

which he needed to qualify for the South African team that will compete at the World Athletics Championships

in Daegu later this month.Since that day, South Africa has named the 24 year old as its only 400m runner

African.But on that night in Italy, the cat was right back among the pigeons as the South African ran

race in Lignano in Italy.The significance of the time was that it meant the double leg amputee from South

Africa, competing with the carbon fibre legs he runs on, had surpassed the A standard time of 45.25

which he needed to qualify for the South African team that will compete at the World Athletics Championships

in Daegu later this month.Since that day, South Africa has named the 24-year-old as its only 400m runner

African.But on that night in Italy, the cat was right back among the pigeons as the South African ran

By Tom DegunAugust 9 – Hambantota is hopeful that its bid to host the 2018 Commonwealth Games will receive a major boost this week as the African Commonwealth delegation arrived in Sri Lanka to look at the plans to stage the event.

Nivard Cabraal, the Hambantota co-chairman and Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, is hopeful Africa

will want to take the event to a new country after seeing the success of the South Africa 2010 FIFA

World Cup last year, which marked the first time the event was held in Africa."

Africa shares our vision for life-changing sport," said Cabraal."

athlete to compete at the able-bodied World Championships, taking place in Daegu, after being chosen by South

Africa as their only 400-metre runner.

Games gold medallist will also compete in the 4x400m relay, and will join 25 other athletes selected by South

Africa.Pistorius said: "I am thrilled to have been announced on the South African team today to compete

representing my country at such a prestigious event and I hope to do my best at the competition for South

Africa.

title.Men's 800m world champion Mbulaeni Mulaudzi and 400m hurdler LJ van Zyl will also be competing in South

athlete to compete at the able-bodied World Championships, taking place in Daegu, after being chosen by South

Africa as their only 400 metres runner.

Games gold medallist will also compete in the 4x400m relay, and will join 25 other athletes selected by South

Africa.Pistorius said: "I am thrilled to have been announced on the South African team today to compete

representing my country at such a prestigious event and I hope to do my best at the competition for South

Africa.

title.Men's 800m world champion Mbulaeni Mulaudzi and 400m hurdler LJ van Zyl will also be competing in South

He knew the Africans were concerned about South Africa and its apartheid policies and promised to make

sure that white South Africa would be kept out of FIFA.

paternalist English gentleman, who liked taking cold baths in the morning and quite liked old white South

Africa as many Englishmen of his era did, would not make such pledges.

But Blatter detached enough votes from Africa - and some from Europe including England - to turn the

By David GoldJuly 30 - South Africa's Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius is hoping that he is joined

I think that's one South Africa can walk away with a gold in."

By Tom DegunJuly 31 - Britain's Liam Tancock successfully defended his 50 metre backstroke title on the final day of the World Aquatic Championships in Shanghai as he stormed to victory by recording his quickest time for two years over the distance.

to claim gold ahead of France's Camille Lacourt, who took silver in 24.57, and Gerhard Zandberg of South

Africa, who took bronze in 24.66.The medal was Britain's second gold in the pool in China following

By Tom DegunJuly 30 - The Gold Coast has received the latest endorsement of its bid to host the 2018 Commonwealth Games after the Australian men's basketball and rugby union teams arrived in the city to use it as a training base for upcoming competitions.

while the Wallabies are currently top of the table in the 2011 Tri Nations Series with New Zealand and South

Africa also competing.Contact the writer of this story at [email protected] storiesJuly

By Andrew Warshaw in Rio de JaneiroJuly 28 - Vastly more Brazilians are looking forward to the FIFA World Cup in 2014 than the Rio Olympic Games two years later.

the world.But in the background there lurks the constant question of safety and security, just as in South

Africa last year.

"Remember what was said about South Africa, how there were cases of rape and violence.

in a world record at the World Under-23 Championships in Amsterdam, defeating the reigning champions South

Africa in the process.

By Tom DegunJuly 25 - Colin Moynihan, the President of the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) Special Commission, is set to lead his international team in working to try to ensure a record turnout of Sports Ministers at the second World Olympic Convention, which will be held in Moscow next April.

Executive Committee meeting held during the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session in Durban in South

Africa where, ANOC President Mario Vázquez Raña underscored the importance of the Second World Olympic

By Tom DegunJuly 21 - South African Paralympic star Oscar Pistorius has not yet secured his dream of

surpassed the Olympic A Standard qualification time of 45.25 but James Evans, the President of Athletics South

Africa (ASA), revealed that Pistorius will need to better the time once again to compete in the Olympic

With regard to the Olympics, the agreement ASA has with SASCOC (the South African Sports Confederation

only the three fastest 400m runners from each country selected.Pistorius now has the second-fastest South

Pistorius will be in the mix for the 4x400m relay final, if South Africa qualify in Korea, although Evans