CAPE TOWN: South Africa opened the 2003 cricket World Cup with a safari spectacular on Saturday, sending African warriors, township dancers and stampeding zebra on to the pitch as the drums of political controversy continued to rumble.
The Olympic-style ceremony at Cape Town's Newlands cricket ground was beamed to some 1.4 billion people around the globe, marking the biggest event of its kind ever staged in Africa and a boost to South Africa's hopes of hosting the much larger soccer World Cup in 2010.
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