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2010 ticket prices: no cut-prices, no freebies

NEWSWATCH: According to FIFA's general secretary, Jerome Valcke, the media got it wrong when it thought that “recategorising” tickets (meaning more category four tickets would be made available to South Africans for just R140, by changing a portion, (or all?) of the unsold, and more expensive category three tickets to the cheaper category four) constituted cutting ticket prices, reports Times Live.

24 Feb 2010

2010 ticket prices: no cut-prices, no freebies

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Times Live : No freebies, cut prices for World Cup… Apparently the plan is to “recategorise” unsold category 3 tickets as category 4 tickets.

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