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Durban - The 2010 Fifa World Cup local organising committee (LOC) will reconsider the way tickets are sold to South Africans, CEO Danny Jordaan said on Friday.

"In April we are considering changing the way tickets are sold in South Africa. This will be discussed in a meeting that will be held in Zurich," Jordaan told media at Durban's Moses Mabhida stadium.

At the moment, ticket buyers needed to apply to buy tickets rather than buy them over a counter.

He said out of the three million available tickets, almost 50 percent had been sold. He was confident South Africa would have full stadiums and all the tickets would be sold.

"There has been improvement in the tickets sales for Bafana Bafana, after we announced that we were worried. About 26,000 tickets were sold for the game," he said of the World Cup opening game between Bafana Bafana and Mexico.

Jordaan said he was excited that Durban would host the banquet for the 100 days till kick-off celebration to take place on March 2.

He said invitations had been sent out but could not say whether Fifa president Sepp Blatter would attend.

During the banquet the LOC would recognise some of the greatest players to come from the African continent, including South Africans Lucas Radebe and Steve "Kalamazoo" Mokone, and Roger Milla of Cameroon and Abedi Pele of Ghana.

"We will also recognise the six African countries that will be playing in the World Cup," he said.

Jordaan said the LOC would consider lowering the prices of tickets only for Bafana games.

He said Fifa set the ticket pricing and it was aligned with previous World Cups.

Jordaan was joined by the KwaZulu-Natal MEC for local government and traditional affairs Nomusa Dube, Durban mayor Obed Mlaba, SA Football Association executive member and regional president Alpha Mchunu and chairman of the parliamentary sports portfolio Butana Komphela.