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In 2010 South Africa will host the Fifa Football World Cup, the first time the world's premier sporting event will be held on African soil. Get a sneak preview of the personalities, places, cities - and all the stadiums - that will help make Africa's debut a feast of football.
2010 Fifa World Cup South Africa
Interactive Map of the World Cup Stadiums in South Africa - The final 10 stadiums to be utilised for the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa: Please move your mouse over the Green Stadium Locators on the map for more detailed information about each of the 10 Stadium and then click to view the individual maps and additional information for each stadium.
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2010 Fifa World Cup South Africa
South Africa regularly hosts major international sporting events, and since 1994 has successfully managed some of the biggest - including the 1995 Rugby World Cup, the 2003 Cricket World Cup, the Women's World Cup of Golf in 2005 and 2006 and, in January 2006, the only street race in the inaugural A1 GP World Cup of Motorsport.
But the Football World Cup, the world's biggest sporting event after the Olympic games - in terms of television audience, bigger than the Olympics - is in a class of its own.
For four weeks in 2010, South Africa will be the centre of the world. The Germany 2006 World Cup was the most extensively covered and viewed event in television history. South Africa 2010, promise to draw even bigger audiences. The eyes of billions of television viewers, an estimated three million international visitors and the cream of the world's sporting media will be focused on the southern tip of Africa. We don't aim to disappoint.
Upgraded and new World Class Stadiums:
Five of South Africa's football stadiums will undergo major renovations for 2010: Soccer City and Ellis Park in Johannesburg, Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria, the Royal Bafokeng stadium in Rustenburg in North West province, and Vodacom Park in Bloemfontein in the Free State.
New stadiums will be built at Mbombela in Mpumalanga and in the Nelson Mandela Metro (encompassing Port Elizabeth) in the Eastern Cape. Peter Mokaba stadium in Polokwane in Limpopo will be rebuilt, as will Kings Park stadium in Durban and Cape Town's Green Point stadium. Kings Park and Green Point stadium will become completely new multi-sport facilities, Green Point complete with a retractable dome to protect fans and players from the Cape's unpredictable winter weather.
The Final 10 Stadiums for the World Cup 2010 in South Africa:
- Green Point Stadium in Cape Town - Nelson Mandela Stadium in Port Elizabeth
- King Senzangakhona Stadium in Durban - Free State Stadium in Bloemfontein
- Ellis Park Stadium in Johannesburg - Soccer City in Johannesburg
- Royal Bafokeng Stadium in Rustenburg - Loftus Versfeld Stadium in Pretoria
- Mbombela Stadium in Nelspruit - Peter Mokaba Stadium in Polokwane
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June 01 2006 at 08:39PM
South Africa will officially unveil its World Cup 2010 emblem in Berlin on July 7.
Significantly this will be before the end of the World Cup in Germany and, as such, is a first in the history of the tournament.
This will be followed by a concert in the German capital on the same evening and later South Africa will also unveil their African Legacy Programme - a new venture in that for the first time a hosting World Cup country will attempt to make the event one of total continental involvement. The aim is make it a truly African affair.
This was announced on Thursday by Danny Jordaan, CEO of the SA World Cup committee, at a media briefing at the ICC in Durban following another in the series of Host Cities Forum meetings aimed at consolidating all resources as the 2010 World Cup organisational programme takes shape.
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'African. World class. No distinction." Those are the words Fifa 2010 World Cup chief executive Danny Jordaan uses often when he envisages what the tournament in South Africa will be like in four years' time.
They are also words which quite fittingly describe the new communications manager for the SA 2010 Local Organising Committee (LOC), Tumi Makgabo.
Makgabo made a name for herself locally as a newsreader for the SABC, before moving on to become a prime-time CNN anchor for five years in the competitive American television market.
She pulled off the CNN job with aplomb and was an accomplished ambassador who showed just what South Africans are capable of internationally.
Publicly, anyway, Jordaan has been a one-man publicity machine
Still, Makgabo's appointment - directly by Jordaan - as 2010 communications manager came as a surprise and has raised a few eyebrows.
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