A team of sixty young South African track and field athletes are participating in the COSSASA Games in Gaberone, Botswana this weekend.

As Rohini Naidoo, Director for School Sport at SRSA explains:

Judging from the dozen-plus records that were broken during the National High Schools Athletics Champs a few weeks ago, they should return with more than a few medals in hand. Watch this space for an update!

Three months before last year’s Confederations Cup there were much criticisms about the lack of visibility the event had on the streets, with almost a total lack of posters and billboards announcing the event.

The country has taken the criticism to heart, and this time round it’s impossible not to drive any major road in metroplitan areas without seeing signs announcing the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

As part of its World Cup mobilisation program SRSA has sponsored a number of large billboards on the city’s major highways that promote the slogal ‘Ke Nako’ – It’s Time.

The billboards will be displayed up to the start of the World Cup, and will ensure that the tens of thousands of motorists using the higways – including those traelling to and from OR Tambo International Airport – has an image of an African World Cup in their minds.