2010 world cup

icyrus said:
Thats a good point. How many can you fit in a taxi? The stadiums are going to be 60 000 capacity and up.
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A standard minibus taxi? Anywhere between 50 to 100 people.
 
mooK said:
From what I've heard from my cousin about Greenpoint, they're demolishing everything and rebuilding it from scratch, it's gonna be a huge complex. They're planning it so they from within the stadium you're able to see Table Mountain and the ocean. From what he's told me it sounds pretty awesome, something to be proud of, if it turns out right.
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If memory serves me right, the residents in Greenpoint didn't want the loud soccer croud around, so they are actually building a new stadium.

i could be wrong...

EDIT: You are correct,

The Green Point Stadium in Cape Town will be transformed into a completely new 68 000 seater, all-weather, multi-purpose, environmentally sustainable, modern, technologically advanced, world class Stadium giving expression to the “African Renaissance Stadium” at the juncture between Table Mountain and the Atlantic Ocean at the southern tip of Africa.
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They've agreed to have it now after some protesting, but they are demolishing the existing stadium and creating a complex AFAIK.
 
andres101 said:
If memory serves me right, the residents in Greenpoint didn't want the loud soccer croud around, so they are actually building a new stadium.

i could be wrong...
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Mmmm, is green point still gay men central?
 
JStrike said:
Not sure about the rest of the country, but in Cape Town there are tonnes of taxi cabs everywhere you go. Myself and my friends (who all own cars) even make use of them regularly when we go out clubbing. The prices are about the same as in NY

City-Ciity transport is handled by Air. Tickets are pretty cheap at about R300 each way

The problem is intra-city transport that extends over 10km because taxi cabs can then start getting expensive.
This is where rail should come in and it is the downfall at the moment. Transnet needs to get their act together. Gautrain is awsome, but what about Cape Town? Durban?

I would still like to see a situation where transnet sells off their trains and only handles the railway lines. Have many competing train services that pay transnet per km
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There are a few such taxi's here in Pretoria, but they are dodgy and expensive, no overseas tourist would use the normal ones we have here. You can get a proper cab, but that is damn expensive afaik.
Luckily, we are in the proccess of aquiring new busses and restructuring the public bus sytem, I hope that will help...

Your idea of transnet only owning the rails is great! I would also like to see something like that happen.
 
Little clip on the tv news: it cost Germany 20 billion Euros to put on World Cup - where is SA going to get the money?
 
I was watching a Soccer WC match yesterday and the commentator complimented Germany on it's efficient, clean rail networks - imagine what SA have to do to meet those standards.

JStrike: What on earth? I never see taxi's in CT - a few at the Waterfront but that's about it. I hope you're not referring to the SA version of a taxi.
 
guys i thihnk this world cup is going to show the world how bad we are

how many tourists a day will die?
will be robbed?

its going to be like xmas for criminals

all these rich folk to kill and steal from

what about if they dont kill them but rape alot of them then what

i would never want a world cup in this country

such a nice tournament :( rape murder is not good for football
 
Thanks mooK - except none of that adds up to 20 billion Euros.

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He said that the European broadcasting rights had already been signed, securing Fifa US$1.2-billion (about R7.8-billion).

The funding budget for South Africa's World Cup is about US$2-billion, the largest in Fifa's history.

Five of the stadiums were already constructed, said Jordaan. Durban, one of the cities which is to build a new stadium, has set aside R1.6-billion for the construction of what is to be called the King Senzangakhona Stadium.
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How could it be the largest in history if u say Germany had like 20 million euros? wtf?
 
I think the FIFA thing, the figures mentioned in mooK article are for tv rights etc. 20 billion euros was the quote for the whole country, the whole event not just little bits of it.
 
Old news but still interesting

http://www.southafrica.info/2010/fifa2507.htm

SA on track for 2010: Fifa
Themba Gadebe

25 July 2005

We had a good impression. Bidding cities and owners of the stadiums were well prepared and everybody involved has an awareness of the requirements," Ziegler added.

The delegation visited stadia in Pretoria, Johannesburg, Rustenburg, Bloemfontein, Durban, Cape Town and Port Elizabeth.

When the delegation returns, they will visit Kimberly, Orkney, Potchefstroom, Polokwane and Nelspruit.
 
Interesting articles:

Given the fact that the world-wide total sponsorship value for the World Cup has increased from a 1984 value of $2 billion to a 2006 value of over $20 billion the event has long ceased to be a mere game of emotions, ecstasy, desperation and triumph. Instead, the desire and the ability of the nation to be the sole world-wide spotlight for promoting the tourism of that nation and its affiliated corporate sponsors hold the key.
http://nation.ittefaq.com/artman/publish/article_28748.shtml


For the 2002 World Cup, FIFA gave Japan and South Korea $100 million apiece. The money helped defray the costs of 10 expensive and relatively useless stadiums.
http://nation.ittefaq.com/artman/publish/article_28568.shtml
 
Dominic Rooney : Seriously, they are everywhere. Now that you are aware, you will see them everywhere. Outside every club, resturant, etc. Cape Town and Claremont. During the middle of the day, driving around. The ones we normally use are Call A Cab. Very nice, new, clean cabs. They seem to be doing particularly well, since I see them more and more compared to other cabs
 
kilo39 : It wont cost us $20 billion. It might have costs Germany that, but 2010 will be much smaller (In terms of size) due to the remote location (compared to Germany)
 
Also costs are a lot less here compared to Germany just by virtue of the cheap labour, etc
 
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