ISS Monograph Launch, Cape Town: Player and referee: Conflicting interests and the 2010 FIFA World Cup (TM)

Date: 2010-04-28

Venue: ISS Offices, 2nd floor, The Armoury, Buchanan Square, 160 Sir Lowry , Road, Woodstock, Cape Town , Parking available in Buchanan Square

RSVP: By Wednesday, 21 April - email Natashia Emmett [email protected]

Fax: (021) 461 7213

Please join the Corruption & Governance programme, Institute for Security Studies (ISS) Cape Town for the launch of our latest publication - Player and referee: Conflicting interests and the 2010 FIFA World Cup™

Conflict between public and private interests is today recognized as one of the biggest risk areas at all levels of public life in South Africa. Mega events, like the FIFA 2010 World Cup™, provide fertile ground for this. The event is a catalyst for competition – not only among football stars – but among the many contenders in the private and public sectors who seek to benefit from multiple state tenders that flow from these highly financed events. Outcomes are vulnerable to manipulation through the use of influence, political pressure, bribes, fraud and extortion. This publication presents readers with six detailed case studies that explore the dynamics that give rise to conflicts of interest. It also provides South African policy makers an opportunity to reassess the integrity of mega-event governance and reflect on weaknesses in the country’s anti-corruption framework. It is also hoped that this will provide invaluable reading for other countries set to host future mega-events.

Keynote Speakers:

• Andrew Jennings: award-winning British investigative reporter and author of Foul! the secret world of FIFA.
• Rob Rose: award-winning investigative journalist with the Sunday Times
• [Chair] Collette Schulz Herzenberg: Senior Researcher, Corruption & Governance Programme, ISS Cape Town.

Attendance to this seminar is free. Feel free to distribute among your networks.

This event is made possible by funding from the Open Society Foundation (OSF-SA)

Please note that discussions occur under ISS Rules. Participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed without his/her express permission.