Pensioner dies while queueing for World Cup tickets

A pensioner died while queueing for World Cup tickets as thousands of South Africans waited overnight to grab the 500,000 tickets being sold for cash for the first time. Police said the 64-year-old man suffered an apparent seizure as he waited in a queue in central Cape Town. He was number 565 in the line.

The Cape Town queue, like others around the country, began to build up yesterday afternoon. Around 120,000 of the tickets are available to South Africans for as little as £13, the lowest price at a World Cup for many years.

Ticket sales in South Africa had been below expectations until recently and Fifa has been criticised for selling them in a complex system over the internet which was alien to poor black football fans from the host nation, who are accustomed to getting tickets for cash on match days.

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