South African organizers of the 2010 World Cup have delayed a one-year anniversary celebration out of respect for an anti-apartheid veteran who died last week and will be buried on Saturday.
Organizing committee chief executive Danny Jordaan says that while South Africans will this weekend reflect ''with great pride'' on Africa's first World Cup - which kicked off a year ago on Saturday - official celebrations will now be held in July.
Albertina Sisulu, the widow of Nelson Mandela's political mentor, died last week aged 92 and will be honored with a state funeral.
As economists continue to debate the success of the World Cup for South Africa, Jordaan says it ''was FIFA's best ever, its most commercially successful ever and arguably its most socially important ever.''
