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SA announces Durban as preferred Olympics host city for 2036 or 2040.

Durban is South Africa's preferred candidate to host the first Olympics in Africa.

South Africa is bidding to host the 2036 or 2040 Summer Olympics and Paralympics.

The country's choice to put forward Durban, South Africa's third biggest city, was announced by South African Olympic committee acting president Lwandile Simelane on Thursday. She said Durban would be the main candidate city for South Africa's bid but that the proposal would include some events being held in other cities.

South Africa's economic hub of Johannesburg and Cape Town were also considered as the candidate city.

Durban, a city of around 4 million on the subtropical Indian Ocean coast, was touted as a possible Olympic host city more than a decade ago following South Africa's staging of the 2010 soccer World Cup, the first in Africa. But an official bid didn't materialize then, largely due to concerns over costs.

The city was stripped of hosting the 2022 Commonwealth Games because it couldn't make financial or other guarantees required for that event.

Officials said Thursday that they were not yet able to provide any estimates regarding how much it might cost South Africa to stage the Olympics. They said Durban's bid would be centered on the 56,000-seat Moses Mabhida Stadium, which was built for the 2010 World Cup.

South Africa🇿🇦 is among seven countries bidding for the 2036 Games. The others are India🇮🇳, Qatar🇶🇦, South Korea🇰🇷, Germany🇩🇪, Hungary🇭🇺 and Turkey🇹🇷.

The IOC gave Oct. 31 as the deadline for national Olympic committees to formally declare their interest in bidding for the 2036 Games.

Candidates have an opportunity to make virtual presentations to the IOC next month to start the official bidding process. A key date is in March, the IOC has said, when its board will approve a shortlist of candidates.

The International Olympic Committee will choose the host city for 2036 in mid-2029.

South Africa would be the first African host of the Summer Games since the modern Olympics was created in 1896. Africa's biggest economy previously failed with a bid to stage the 2004 Games in Cape Town, losing out to Athens in Greece.

The Youth Olympics open this weekend in Dakar, Senegal, marking the first Olympic sports event to be held in Africa.

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She seems drunk.

Broadcasters including the SABC also unveiled their makeshift studios at the results centre.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9teXaK5jV0?si=o63DEV1T1ue4fAK5

LGE 2026 | All parties are equal at "0". The leaderboard at the IEC's National Results Operations Centre in Midrand is ready for next week's Local Government Elections. pic.twitter.com/NyHk7pL4Yn

— SABC News (@SABCNews) October 28, 2026

LGE 2026 | “The results system is hereby declared ready and fit for purpose.” IEC CEO Sy Mamabolo announces the readiness of the election results system at the launch of the National Results Operations Centre in Midrand, Gauteng. pic.twitter.com/P6NFZJrWgj

— SABC News (@SABCNews) October 28, 2026

SY MAMABOLO (IEC CEO): "Today we have the honor of launching the national results centre (ROC) ahead of the elections next week Wednesday.

This result centre is not a mere physical infrastructure. This result centre is something much greater that speaks to our constitutional ethos as an electoral democracy. This ROC is the foundation that beholds our electoral transparency.

It is, in fact, a temporary monument of electoral integrity, which espouses transparency beyond measure. On another level, this ROC is also an attestation of our electoral readiness.

Immediately, it is opposite that we indicate that technological upgrades and intensified, independent external assurance are the hallmarks of the technical platform underpinning this result centre. These interventions are not just a technological frolic, but a deep and incontrovertible commitment to electoral integrity.

These elections will be conducted on a new Windows 11 platform and its associated applications. The result system is a technical embodiment of the political choices of the electorate. In other words, the result system is the aggregator of the will of the voter. As such, the result system assumes cardinal importance in relaying electoral outcomes.

To ensure that this system is functionally robust and cyber security resilient, it has now been independently tested and audited. Naturally, findings were made during this audit process. Our report to the nation is that those findings have now been remediated, and the results system is hereby declared ready and fit for purpose.

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shegztech:
Eyya! Congrats to Lula. BTW what's this water contamination I hear that poisoned over 400 people in the city of Tshwane in south africa? How are they? Any improvement? I'm so concerned out of love.

Seppuku here's a possible new BF for you (same WhatsApp group).

Indeed Lula's victory is a win for the global South.

Bolsonaro has fled to his handlers in the US from where together with the Trumps they'll attempt to destabilize Brazil.

Social media reactions to Lula/Ramaphosa Bromance...

VIDEO
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South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has congratulated Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on his re-election for a historic fourth term, pledging to strengthen diplomatic ties between South Africa and Brazil.

Ramaphosa described Lula’s victory as a win for the Global South and progressive forces, reaffirming South Africa’s commitment to closer bilateral cooperation and collaboration on international platforms.

“On behalf of the government and the people of South Africa I congratulate my dear brother and friend, President Lula and the people of Brazil,” Ramaphosa said.

“This victory will echo beyond the shores of Brazil. It is a victory for the global south and progressive forces throughout the world.”

On Monday, Lula secured a suprise fourth term victory beating Flavio Bolsonaro who was backed by Donald Trump.

Brazil and South Africa are longtime allies with seats within BRICS and G20.

KingCold:
What does drinking have to do with the fact that banks finance people who can pay? Where's the correlation there? You arent that bright

He means the rest of the Western and developed world also drink coz they get home and car financing. Remember these things don't exist in Japa-geria, so don't waste your time with backward people.

Welcome to our hood, we're the test cricket world champions 🇿🇦 🏆

Great that you're diversifying in sport.🇳🇬

I wonder how many Nigerians understand cricket 🤭🤭

T20 is the most exciting for new fans.

shegztech:
See Full ground evidence of real hunger and weep. KwaZulu natal is developed by the whites. Jozy na gold na MINED BY THE WHITES. Without gold jozy fit near western? Western is far more organized. Whites controls these gold. See the real black south Africans

Keep up with the times Tinubulated one, I know malnutrition is hampering your logic🇳🇬💩💩💩

Black South Africans are the most successful and biggest middle class in Africa 🇿🇦🏆🏆🏆

Have you not heard Hunger-geria doesn't have a middle class anymore - you're either rich (corrupt top 1%) or poor (rest of the country)? 🇳🇬💩💩💩

Keep popping and pooping delulu pills like your president French Tinubooo.

shegztech:
Someone posted up there and you still say he is deluded? Thank God for the whites repairing south Africa. Just imagine south Africa without the whites.
SEE STATS BELOW AND WEEP
Too much hunger hahahahaha

Who told you Cape Town is the most developed in SA more than Joburg?

Anyway, read and weep - and compare with Hunger/Japa-geria
🇳🇬💩💩💩

https://businesstech.co.za/news/trending/122723/10-things-the-anc-got-right-in-south-africa/

I don't know why Nigerians and BlackViper get triggered by SA awesomeness 🤷🏾‍♂️

Anyway, more loading...⏳⏰⏰⏰

KingCold:
why would I crash out? 90% of your cars are tokunbo..because you have low purchasing power
And black South Africans outperform you and the rest of the continent in this department

Tokunbo-gerians 🇳🇬💩 Proudly sponsored by Jaxxy.

Hand me down cars best suited for their Hunger-gerian roads.

They should see SA stats below and weep 🇿🇦🏆🏆🏆

Kdon2:
We have several of this construction across Nigeria. Stop capping over this maiden edition in SA

Okey dokey, I'm used to Nigerian men lies and delulu-ness .

seppuku:
1. I dare Randdigital to go a month without infrastructure posts.
.

That's impossible! There are always awesome infrastructure projects in South Africa. The giant of Africa 🇿🇦🏆🏆🏆

KingOfAmebo:
You are not ashamed black South Africa lack the skill set to build common roads and bridges, here in Nigeria, most of the roads and bridges are built by Nigerians...

Don't ever compare Nigerians to lazy black South Africans, compare us with your white masters...

Where are those amazing Nigerian roads - please share 💩💩💩

ogwumgbe:
We're not mates, when you get to 100 million in population, then we can at least consider you as a rival, as a result of fear of population explosion, you drove out foreign nationals out of your country, and you are here trying to measure up with a Nation of more than 200 million people, we are not mates, shoes get sizes, despite your so called El dorado economy, yet the world prefer Nigeria to you, I beg shift

Ok, keep popping delulu pills like your presido.

seppuku:
Wash, Rinse repeat day after day.

Can you come up with more intriguing subject matters or is this all you have.

This is all I have 🤓🤓

tobenuel:
What's the connection between this APC data boy and a cracked up south African in one thread?

It's elections season. This week Brazil, Serbia, Israel.

Next week it's the US midterms and most important of all of them - the South African mayoral elections 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦

Stay tuned! 💩

Emeskhalifa:
I can imagine how embarrassed you are right now?

Thought it is only Nigerians that do drug?

Embarrassed about what? We see this all the time in SA hence the anger regarding the exploitation of our women by some foreign nationals - especially Nigerian men.

IronGalaxy:
Lol.. so its no longer "black South Africans are xenophobic" now its only the men, right? How convenient

😂😂😂

I asked her to Google what a Jollofina is - the negative connotations and then b.ot ba.n.ned me. Jollofinas and Nigerian men are a match made in heaven (hell) 🚔🚓🚨👮🏾‍♂️

QuinQ:
Poor guy, xenophobia didn't allow you see this part below

That's another Jollofina who has connections with car dealers in Nigeria.

She was moved from one hotel to another in Lagos, what do you think went down over there?

Your prison guards will be very excited to see a southy woman with their own eyes, if you get what I mean

QuinQ:
Who can blame her though, poor lady from an extremely xenophobic country

We're not the ones who told her to fool around with Nigerian men - look where she is now 😂

Good, Jollofina got caught.

Please keep her there, we don't want her bek.

Viva Lula! 🇧🇷🏆🏆🏆

Trump & Bolsonaro must be having stomach pains.

Bakrabas:
I'll rather spend millions of dollars to visit South Sudan than to spend 1 night in a Xenophobic South Africa

Triggered much? 😂😂😂😂

See how you're now bouncing off the walls!

Bakrabas:
Are you saying that South Africa couldn't trust their own Engineers?

The only African countries wey whyte still dey mumu dem... Chai

What have Nigerian engineers delivered? 😂😂😂😂

You're all looking to flee from Hunger-geria to live in SA engineers land 🇿🇦😂😂😂😂

IronGalaxy:
the natives, "who divide their time between Sangomas", produce the bulk of graduates in South Africa of which includes engineers.. you Nigerians like the idea of Black South Africans being mere spectators in their own country because of your deep seated jealousy

Largest middle class in Africa - that's black professionals of all kinds 🇿🇦🏆🏆🏆

I heard on BBC, Hunger-geria doesn't have a middle class anymore - it's either your 1% corrupt rich or 99% poor looking to japa to SA🇳🇬💩💩💩💩💩

BlackViper:
And here is the brains behind this engineering feat.

As expected, it is always whites or coloreds or Indians.

Meanwhile the "natives" are dividing their time between Sangomas, shebeens and protesting against black foreigners while the ANC has been running down SA since 1994.

Black SA government like UAE or Qatar (oil countries) can hire those Indian and white brains to develop their country and uplift the lives of black South Africans 🇿🇦🏆

Can Hunger-geria do that? 🇳🇬💩

All those skyscrapers in Dubai, were they built by Emiratis? You're a failure with top 10 global oil reserves 🇳🇬😂