South Africans react with joy at the announcement that South Africa will be the first African country to host the World Cup Soccer in 2010. |
Since 2005, the HSRC has been undertaking an annual survey of 3 000 respondents, which provides benchmark indicators of public attitudes towards the 2010 World Cup. The HSRC will undertake an annual poll of public attitudes towards this international showpiece in order to conduct longitudinal analysis. This will allow changing attitudes to be analysed, providing policy-makers and practioners alike with decisive planning information in the run-up to the event. The first wave of the survey was undertaken in 2005 (results released in 2006) and the subsequent annual waves build on those initial results, revealing a picture of changing attittudes of South Africans towards the 2010 World Cup as the event draws closer. Media releasesConsolidation of positive attitudes towards 2010, but expectations must be addressed, 27 February 2008
This media brief was issued after comparing the 2007 data from the HSRC's 2010 annual longitudinal survey to that of previous years.
Read the media release Attitudes to the 2010 World Cup: Positive expectations continue, but not unabated, February 2007
This media brief was issued after the comparison of the 2006 polling data from the HSRC's ongoing 2010 longitudinal survey with that of 2005, when the first HSRC poll was undertaken.
Read the media release Results bookletsAttitudes to the 2010 World Cup, August 2007
This booklet contains the results from the first (2005) and second (2006) wave of the HSRC's longitudinal survey.
Download the results booklet  Attitudes to the 2010 World Cup, April 2006
This booklet contains the results from the first wave of the HSRC's longitudinal survey.
Download the results booklet ArticlesSouth Africans believe 2010 can lift them, but how high?, March 2008
This article appeared in the March 2008 edition of the HSRC Review.
Read the article Can the 2010 World Cup be a truly African one?, June 2007
An article in the HSRC Review calls for positioning 2010 as a continent-wide event.
Read the article South Africans pin job creation hopes on 2010, June 2006
This article appeared in the HSRC Review. As a result of the interest generated from the first wave of the public attitude survey, the HSRC was invited by government, to sit on the national communication team for 2010.
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