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Showing 1 to 20 of 84 for “"World cup"”.
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Tax consequences of the 2010 FIFA World Cup
… excitement in South Africa about the 2010 FIFA World Cup kicking off on 11 June 2010, tax relief will be granted on import tax and VAT, amongst others, in terms of the Revenue Laws Amendment Act 20 of 2006 (hereafter referred to as RLAA). FIFA (Federation Internationale de Football Association), …
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An Ugly Side to the Beautiful Game? An Analysis of Broadcast Commentary of FIFA World Cup and FIFA Women's World Cup Final Matches
… have repeatedly been sites for exploration, the world's largest single-event sporting competition, the World Cup, remains relatively untouched. Keeping this in mind, using a systematic content analysis, this thesis analyzed the broadcast commentary provided by play-by-play and color commentators …
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Audience Reach Projection for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa
… to model individual consumption behavior of 2010 World Cup content across ESPN's media platforms. We specified and tested two Hidden Markov models on simulated data to forecast mutli-platform reach. Currently we are developing a Bayesian multivariate regression with time-varying covariates. …
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Wasted opportunities : inequality and fragmentation in the 2010 South Africa World Cup
… the possibilities for cities to use the 2010 World Cup to hasten city development. The first chapter will detail the 2010 World Cup plan and the local stakeholders as well as the lessons learned from previous World Cups. The next chapter will examine the obstacles South Africa faces as it …
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The 2010 Fifa world cup: Perceptions of its sports and development legacy potential
… global processes in an increasingly globalised world. Whilst the sport industry has grown exponentially as a result of global market forces envisaging extensive economic opportunities, hosting a mega-event has also been economically attractive for cities and countries. In aiming to be globally …
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Patient presentations during the 2010 FIFA World Cup: Cape Town, South Africa's public emergency centres
… study is to determine what impact the 2010 FIFA World Cup South AfricaTM had on emergency centre presentations. The objective of the study is to conduct a retrospective, observational, cross-sectional study utilizing previously collected audit data from emergency centre records during the period …
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Elites and Carbon-Offsetting in Brazil: A Critique of the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Mato Grosso
Major sporting competitions, such as the Football World Cup and the Olympic Games have become global events. For the organisers of such events, they are much more than a short-term competition, they present the opportunity to ‘re-imagineer’ nations and cities. Scholars have discussed the …
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An exploratory study of stakeholders' perspectives of a mega event in Barbados: The Golf World Cup 2006
… including the Olympic Games and the Football World Cup, smaller but still significant sport events of global significance such as the Golf World Cup have received hardly any attention by researchers. This dearth in knowledge has inspired the direction of this study, that is, to explore the …
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Of sunsets, savages, and soccer framing Africa during the final days of the 2010 FIFA World Cup
… at all (Golan, 2008). With the FIFA 2010 World Cup held for the first time on the African continent, the Western media spotlight was fixed firmly on South Africa for over a month of continuous, rolling reporting on Western and non-Western news channels. Did this journalism re-engender old …
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Exploring the signalling potential of mega-sporting events : an analysis of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa
… the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa and the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil have been observed to serve as highly influential tools for the promotion of positive media impressions surrounding the host destination. Drawing from the field of existing knowledge …
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Can a mega-event be developmental? : a case study of Cape Town as it prepares for the 2010 World Cup
Cities and nations around the world vigorously compete to host mega-events such as the Olympics and the World Cup, despite the history of mixed economic and social impacts of these events. While such events have been traditionally sought by hosts as vehicles primarily for economic growth, image …
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Analysing International Sports Fan Motivations and Constraints: The Case of Japanese International Sports Fan Tourists and Rugby World Cup Fan Tourists
… to watch international events featuring the world’s top athletes or players. The number of international sports fan tourists has increased, and understanding their behaviour is very important for stakeholders and those involved in marketing, such as sports organisations, travel companies, and …
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The Strategic contribution of sport mega-events to national branding: the case of South Africa and the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
… The case of South Africa and the 2010 FIFA World Cup was selected as the study context, as it represented an emerging nation that specifically stated its aim of using the sport mega-event to develop its brand. In order to assess brand image perceptions and the degree to which these were …
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A Media Analysis of Racism and Ethnocentrism Issues Framed in US and European Mass Media within the Setting of the 2006 FIFA World Cup Competition.
… issues, on the background of the 2006 FIFA World Cup. By combining quantitative and qualitative methods, 2 research hypotheses and 9 research questions were explored. The results showed the distribution of articles that used a positive frame and the ones that used a negative frame was …
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Housing Rights Implications of Hosting the 2026 FIFA World Cup in Toronto and Vancouver: Towards a Legal Framework that Effectively Protects the Right to Adequate Housing in Canada
… event in the history of soccer – the FIFA World Cup (FWC). The 2026 FWC starts in June 2026, with Canada, Mexico, and the US as host nations. This thesis focuses on Canada to ascertain how the hosting of the 2026 FWC could impact the right to adequate housing in the host provinces/cities of …
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(Un)papering the cracks in South Africa : the role of 'traditional' and 'new' media in nation-negotiation around Julius Malema on the eve of the 2010 FIF World Cup
… during the preparation for the 2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup™ to be hosted in South Africa, a series of events gave rise to the revitalization of other discourses in the national media: those of racial polarization and the possibility of a race war.
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The intended and actual impacts of mega-events : an international comparative study on mega-event hosting and a speculative review of South Africa's preparations for the 2010 Football World Cup
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 206-232).
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Fantasy football - assessing changes in perceptions and interpretations of the 2010 FIFA World Cup's legacies for South Africa
… This dissertation uses a case study of the FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa to analyse the question of how perceptions and interpretations of mega-event legacies change over time, from the bid process, through preparation, the event itself, and postevent reckonings of event legacies. As a wide …
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New architectures of governance : transnational private actors, enrolment strategies and the security governance of sports mega events
The FIFA World Cup has become one of the most sought after sports mega events by many countries in today’s society, as well as one of the most controversial. As I put the finishing touches on this thesis, the FIFA World Cup is taking place in Brazil. As with previous World Cups, the planning stage …
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