Irvin 'Iron Duke' Khoza

Age: 60
Title: Chairman, South Africa's Soccer World Cup 2010 Organizing Committee

PRO: The dynamic, politically well-connected entrepreneur took charge of Soweto's bankrupt Orlando Pirates Football Club in the early 1990s and rebuilt it into a continental powerhouse and hugely successful business. Then he led a successful bid to host the world's premier sporting event in his country.

CON: Khoza has twice been convicted of insurance fraud, was arrested for tax evasion and was forced to pay $1 million in tax arrears in 2002 — and he was arrested in Zambia in the 1980s for possession of the drug Mandrax.

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