President Jacob Zuma used the ANC’s birthday celebrations as an opportunity to again shift the blame for the country’s energy crisis to apartheid.

Sepp Blatter and Thabo Mbeki intervened to have Cape Town’s Green Point Stadium built — at R3-billion more expensive than two available alternatives.

Cape Town’s Greenpoint stadium, which has been chosen to host a 2010 World Cup semifinal, was on Monday declared complete.