High visibility policing is part of World Cup security plans Three foreign journalists covering the World Cup in South Africa have been robbed at gunpoint, police say. One of them saw two robbers as they broke into their lodgings near Johannesburg in the early morning. “One of the suspects pointed a gun at the journalist and told him to lie down,” police spokesman Hangwani Mulaudzi said. The... 

Just a taste of what it will be like for 350,000 foreign football fans at the FIFA WC2010 in South Africa? Pretoria-born businessman Christo Viljoen, 57, who had fled from the city’s crime to Ballito at the KwaZulu-Natal coast two years ago, travelled back to his beloved home town to cheer on the Blue Bulls in the Super14 semifinal rugby tournament at the Loftus Versfeld stadium. The Afrikaner had...