JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South Africa is to bid for the 2024 Olympics and
also wants to host the Commonwealth Games two years before that, the
country's sports minister Fikile Mbabula said. "The biggest fish to
catch is the 2024 Olympics," the Business Day newspaper on Tuesday
quoted Mbabula as saying.
"Sport plays a role in terms of
infrastructure development," he told reporters, adding South Africa's
president Jacob Zuma had already indicated the country was ready to host
the Games. It is a major shift in policy for South Africa who last year
said the cost to host an Olympics would be too high.
