South Africans who still want to buy 2010 FIFA World Cup tickets will be relieved to know that a few thousand additional tickets went on sale this week.

Football body FIFA said the tickets became available following the ongoing finalisation of seating arrangements at all World Cup match venues and further adjustments of different ticket allocations.

This process has seen additional tickets become available for some of the matches in Cape Town and Durban. However, the opening match, the first round match Brazil versus Portugal, the two semi-finals and the final are all unavailable, a statement said.
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