The new $450m (£300m) arena was named after an anti-apartheid activist and hero of the black working class but some South Africans say his memory is being trampled on by people who are using the stadium to harass the poor. "They should have called this stadium PW Botha - an oppressor - not Moses Mabhida, our father. It just makes a mockery of what he represented," says Johannes Mzimela, who sells ice-cream for a living.   Mr Mzimela is upset at what he calls "hostile raids" ...

The Uruguayans, who open against France in Cape Town on June 11, meet South Africa in their second game in Pretoria five days later. "The first match is the most important because it is the first to receive all the affects of the (teams') preparations, the one that will leave a footmark for everything that follows," Tabarez said. "But the decisive match is the second," Tabarez told the daily Ultimas Noticias in an interview published on Monday. "Even winning the first match, the second i...