South Africa launches bid to host World Cup football tournament

CAPE TOWN: South Africa launched its bid to host the 2010 Soccer World Cup in Cape Town on Tuesday, with organisers vowing to do all they could to make sure an African country would host the coveted tournament for the first time.  

Danny Jordaan, chief executive of the country's bidding committee, told a banquet in Cape Town that the bid was “an African bid and South Africa was merely the stage.”