Pensioner dies while queueing for World Cup tickets

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.