Vuvuzela South Africa

Guest Blog Post by Jade Scully Vuvuzelas characterised South Africa’s Soccer World Cup. We knew they would. We also knew (from previous experience) that they wouldn’t go down well with many of the European soccer playing nations who prefer a more (ahem) civilised atmosphere. Despite various protests and pleas for the mighty trumpet to be banned, Fifa stuck by us and let revellers continue to...

That’s right, Two vuvuzelas and a cabbage thrown on to the pitch after Kaizer’s Chiefs‘ defeat to Orlando Pirates in the MTN8 last month. Amakhosi boss Kaizer Motaung had to apologize for the bad behaviour of his fans an write a cheque for R500000. According to IOL, League prosecutor Zola Majavu said the time has come to “open the debate” over the viability of allowing fans...

The word Vuvuzela appears in the  new edition of the Oxford dictionary – along with words like climate change, national treasure and toxic debt. According to The Guardian “Football fans will perhaps be unsurprised to learn that the vuvuzela, whose apian drone soundtracked yet another summer of hurt, has blared its way into the dictionary’s pages. By being ushered into the dicti...

Ask the Octopus Get your Paul the Octopus iPhone App (unofficial) and you will have predictions in the palm of your hand – so to speak. It was just a matter of time before someone jumped on the very popular bandwagon of Paul the Psychic Octopus who made a string of winning predictions in the recent 2010 World Cup. Besides the vuvuzela, I think Paul the Octopus became one the the icons of th...

Vuvuzela is the word of the 2010 World Cup, would you want to know it? Not Jabulani, although I think the name of the energetic ball of happiness is probably a close second or third. No, I’m not suffering from post World Cup euphoria. I read this on the Web so it must be true. Vuvuzela – Biggest Impact on 2010 World Cup Linguists in more than 60 countries voted that the vuvuzela is th...