Yazeed Kamaldien - View category Soccer World Cup 2006

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This website is a showcase of the travel writing and photography of Yazeed Kamaldien, a South African journalist and photographer.

Yazeed started his career at a daily newspaper in Cape Town, South Africa, and has since worked as an editor of a national newspaper for teenagers, a freelance writer for various magazines and newspapers as well as Internet publications.

He has also produced radio documentaries and news reports for a community radio station in Cape Town. His journalistic work has taken him to various countries and he has also worked as a journalist in Egypt, Germany and Jordan. He has a keen interest in travel writing.

Yazeed completed a four-year journalism course at the Peninsula Technikon in Cape Town and a post-graduate diploma in media management at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa.

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Soccer World Cup 2006

View category Soccer World Cup 2006

In May 2006 I travelled to Germany on a journalism exchange programme and arrived back in South Africa after travels through Europe at the end of August 2006. During my stay in Germany I tried to capture the excitement of the Soccer World Cup.

I was also fortunate to attend one match. It was a proudly African moment when Ghana beat the Czech Republic 2:0. The stadium was energetically beating to an African drum and the supporters - even though there were some Czech tears - were able to party together after the match. This is the beauty of the Soccer World Cup.

The next country to host the Soccer World Cup in 2010 is South Africa. Oh yes, football’s coming home!