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 SOUTH AFRICA IS READY TO HOST THE WORLD
South Africa will deliver a world-class event that will forever change the
perceptions of the international community, and also ensure a lasting
legacy for the people of Africa. – President Jacob Zuma, Republic of
South Africa
South Africa has not only made its mark on international sports fields,
but has also successfully hosted a number of major international
events. These include, among other things, the 1995 World Cup,
1996 African Cup of Nations, 2003 Cricket World Cup and the Indian
Premier League in 2009. These events and the 2009 Confederations
Cup demonstrate South Africa’s readiness to host the 2010 FIFA
World CupTM.
We have every confidence in our security establishment to secure this
event … we have no doubt that the World Cup will be a runaway success,
– Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe, Republic of South Africa
GOVERNMENT GUARANTEES
Before South Africa was granted the right to host the 2010 FIFA World
CupTM, national government departments provided 17 guarantees
to FIFA. Government has used these guarantees as the blueprint
for its preparations for the tournament. Since being awarded the
bid, a coordinated and concentrated effort has been made by all the
relevant departments to achieve these undertakings.

The 2010 FIFA World CupTM will expose South Africa and the continent
to the world, optimise tourism and other developmental opportunities, INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT
promote soccer and foster pride and confidence in Africa.
The South African Government is using the event to fast-track
When the first match of the 2010 FIFA World Cup kicks off in South
TM infrastructure development in the country and to provide a catalyst
Africa, it will be the culmination of years of dedicated effort, planning for regional and continental exposure and growth.
and commitment. Long after the last whistle has blown, South Africa
and Africa will continue to reap the rewards of its investments in this
tournament, which have catalysed huge developments.

All of South Africa has risen to the occasion to make this the best
World Cup ever.

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 Stadium
Nelson Mandela Bay

Bruce Sutherland
City of Cape Town
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Green Point Durban Soccer City
 STADIUMS
The 2010 FIFA World CupTM
will take place in eight of South
Africa’s nine provinces. Ten
stadiums are located in nine
cities and will seat more than
570 000 people.
New stadiums
Soccer City Stadium: This
stadium, situated in Johannesburg,
Gauteng, will host the opening and
Mbombela final matches of the 2010 FIFA World
CupTM. The stadium has a seating capacity
of 94 700.
Durban Stadium: This stadium
is situated in the KwaZulu-Natal
port city of Durban. It is a new
landmark in Durban with a
giant steel arch 105 m above
the middle of the pitch. It has
a seating capacity of 70 000.
Green Point Stadium:
Situated on the edge of the Cape
Town city centre and behind the
Peter Mokaba
popular Victoria and Alfred Waterfront, the Green Point Stadium
has a 70 000-seating capacity.
Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium: Situated in Port Elizabeth in
the Eastern Cape, the stadium was the first of the new stadiums to
be completed and is already being used for various sporting events.
It seats 50 000 people.
Mbombela Stadium: The stadium’s distinguishing features are
the 18 supporting pillars that resemble giraffes. It is situated in
Mpumalanga, which shares borders with Mozambique and Swaziland.
Its seating capacity is 46 000.
Peter Mokaba Stadium: The Peter Mokaba Stadium has a
capacity of 46 000 seats and is located in Polokwane, Limpopo.
Upgraded stadiums
• Royal Bafokeng Stadium, Rustenburg, North West: seating
capacity increased to 42 000.
• Loftus Versveld Stadium, Tshwane/Pretoria, Gauteng:
seating capacity now 50 000.
• Free State Stadium, Mangaung/Bloemfontein, Free State:
seating capacity increased to 45 000.
• Ellis Park Stadium, Johannesburg, Gauteng: seating capacity of
61 000.
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 TOURISM
South Africa offers visitors scenic beauty, magnificent outdoors,
a sunny climate and unique cultural and biological diversity. The
hosting of the 2010 FIFA World CupTM, which will attract hundreds
of thousands of people to our shores, has provided the impetus
for expanding the regional and local tourism sectors. Some of the
initiatives that have been undertaken to make visitors’ experience
safe, comfortable and enjoyable include:
• The Geographic Information System Mapping of all tourism products
and related services, which will include graded accommodation
establishments. This information is available on: www.tourism.gov.za
or link directly to the maps on: www.touristmaps.co.za.
• Visitor information centres have been launched in Polokwane,
Rustenburg, Port Elizabeth, Bloemfontein and Nelspruit.
• Promoting service excellence through a project to train frontline
service staff across all tourism-service points on service excellence.
• The 2010 Tourism Ambassador Programme, which will target
approximately 15 000 volunteers for placement across host cities
during the 2010 FIFA World CupTM.
• Language training: the Department of Tourism, in partnership
with the Department of International Relations and Cooperation,
is facilitating the training of tourist guides in the official FIFA
languages: Portuguese, Arabic, German and Italian.
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Accommodation
By October 2009, 46 972 rooms had been contracted by MATCH for
official use by the FIFA family, delegates and affiliates. Of these, 31 371
were hotel rooms and 15 601 were non-hotel accommodation.
There is a common understanding between government and tourism
industry-players that inflating prices during the 2010 FIFA World
CupTM will be detrimental to the sustainability of the industry beyond
the event.
ENTRY INTO SOUTH AFRICA
During the 2010 FIFA World CupTM, an estimated 450 000 ticket
holders are expected to visit South Africa over a four-week period.
The Department of Home Affairs is implementing special measures
to ensure smooth access when entering and/or exiting South Africa.
These include:
• Event visas: South Africa will be the first country in the history
of the 2010 FIFA World CupTM to offer an event visa. The event
visa will be issued to nationals travelling from non-visa exempt
countries who are able to provide proof of purchase of a FIFA
match ticket. These visas are issued to qualifying travellers at no
cost. Security will not be compromised and all applicants will have
to comply with the normal visa requirements. Accredited FIFA
delegates will travel visa-free if they come from non-visa exempt
countries.
• Dedicated lanes: These lanes are designed to ensure that
travellers arriving at our shores receive priority treatment.

• Advanced passenger processing: This is a “pre-departure

passenger screening” process for all passengers and crew travelling
by air into and through South Africa. It will facilitate the entry of
bona fide passengers with minimum delay.

• Temporary joint border clearance: This will enable

travellers to be processed within a controlled and secure co-
located border facility when they enter South Africa.

• Immigration liaison officers: This is a control measure that Cape Town International Airport
will ensure the validation of travel documents for authenticity
at selected foreign airports of origin to identify undesirable
individuals travelling to South Africa prior to their departure from
the country of origin. The airline and immigration services at ports
of entry will then be notified of any such individual en route to
South Africa.

• Mobile border units: These will be available at land ports of

entry where a high volume of visitors are expected during the
tournament. Through these units, travellers will experience fast
and organised service, reduced congestion, enhanced security and
better monitoring of illegal activities at land border posts.

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Cape Town International Airport
 BORDER CONTROL COORDINATING Improvements to the transport system include:

COMMITTEE (BCOCC) • An additional 1 500 buses will be made available.

• Over 2 000 train coaches are being refurbished.
The BCOCC is a mandated structure within government to coordinate • Major infrastructure upgrades are being implemented in airports
activities at ports of entry. The South African Revenue Service (Sars) in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Bloemfontein and Port Elizabeth. A
is the lead agency and holds the Chair of the committee. A 2010 new airport will open in April 2010 outside Durban.
FIFA World CupTM Forum was constituted within the committee
to coordinate efforts of member departments in processing people The accelerated transport investments will yield a lasting legacy of
and goods coming into our country for the tournament. The list of quality transport services, infrastructure and systems in the country,
prioritised ports of entry that was approved by the BCOCC Executive benefiting millions of South Africans.
Committee consists of 12 airports, 13 land and four sea ports.
Access into South Africa
TRANSPORT • OR Tambo International Airport, Johannesburg.
• Cape Town International Airport, Cape Town.
Government is using the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ to improve South • Durban International Airport, Durban.
Africa’s transport system. Transport • Beit Bridge Border Post (link with Zimbabwe), Musina, Limpopo.
services and infrastructure are being • Lebombo Border Post (link with Mozambique), Mpumalanga.
designed to meet the efficiency, • Durban Harbour, Durban.
safety, quality and cost-effective • Cape Town Harbour, Cape Town.
requirements of the modern era,
and will be accessible to all – visitors PROTOCOL AND PORTS OF ENTRY MATTERS
and residents alike.
Guarantees binding on the Department of International Relations
A total investment of R13,6 billion and Cooperation for 2010 are that:
has been allocated to improve • no country will be excluded from participating in the 2010 FIFA
public transportation systems. This World CupTM
is part of an overall investment of • the national anthems of all participating countries will be played
R170 billion in the country’s transport system over the five-year during the tournament and their national flags flown
period from 2005/06 to 2009/10.
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• protocol services will be provided at official
government and 2010 FIFA World CupTM-
related events.
SAFETY AND SECURITY
The millions of fans who will be in South Africa to
enjoy the 2010 FIFA World CupTM can be assured
of their safety. South Africa’s safety and security
plan includes, among other things:
• Route security, specifically from airports
into the cities and border security at ports
of entry, including South Africa’s land, sea and
air borders.
• State-of-the-art information and commu-
nications military technology will be used as
well as a fleet of nearly 40 helicopters.
• Courts will be available 24 hours a day,
seven days a week to ensure access to
justice during the event.
• Plans are in place to address terror threats,
hooliganism and crime.
• The South African Police Service (SAPS) is
spending R640 million on the deployment
of 41 000 officers specifically for the event.
These include 31 000 permanent members
and 10 000 police reservists. The majority of
the police deployed for the 2010 FIFA World
CupTM will be trained officers with experience
in major events.
• Each of the 32 qualifying countries competing in the event will be
invited to send their own specially trained police officers to assist
with language and cultural differences and to support the SAPS.
• Interpol will be setting up an office in South Africa for the 2010
FIFA World CupTM.
ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE
A key area for the Department of Justice and Constitutional
Development will be to deal with all criminal cases in a fast and
efficient way, especially where foreigners are involved. The following
special measures will be implemented:
• At least one dedicated district court and one regional court will be
set up per host city to deal with 2010-related cases for the period
28 May to 25 July 2010.
• Dedicated, skilled and experienced magistrates, prosecutors,
Legal Aid South Africa attorneys, local and foreign court language
interpreters and other court officials will be assigned to each of
the dedicated 2010 courts.
• All 2010-related cases outside of the host cities will be prioritised
and dealt with in a court with jurisdiction.
DISASTER MANAGEMENT AND FIRE SERVICES
The 2010 Disaster-Management Master Plan was developed for joint
implementation by the members of the 2010 National Disaster-
Management Steering Committee.
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 The plan provides for the establishment of an operation centre for:
• receiving disaster-related information and incidents
• analysing the trends of incidents
• connecting the nine host cities and provincial disaster-management
centres.
The plan also provides for the:
• development of an active database with all the standard operation
procedures recorded
• activation of a 24/7 national operation (command centre) where
volunteers will be trained and deployed to provincial joint
operation centres, provincial disaster-management centres and
cluster joint operation centres
• placement of special operations experts to deal with specific
incidents.
Other preparations include:
• the deployment of 800 disaster-management and fire-services
reservists in the host cities
• procurement of two multipurpose equipment caches, deployed in
Gauteng and the Western Cape respectively, to deal with potential
incidents around Urban Search and Rescue.
An estimated R200 million has already been spent by host cities
and provincial governments to improve fire-services infrastructure
and capacity. There will be expenditure towards training specialists
in hazardous material and how to respond to incidents involving
chemicals and other dangerous substances.
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HEALTH AND MEDICAL SERVICES
All players, officials, visitors, support staff and vendors attending the
various events will have access to adequate and appropriate health
and medical services. Medical teams will be strategically positioned
throughout each stadium and its precinct.
The Department of Health has established various working groups,
focusing on such areas as emergency medical services (EMS), on-site
medical centres (event venue and VIP hotels), aero-medical services,
disaster and mass casualty planning and biochemical defence.
Key deliverables that are being addressed to meet government’s
guarantees to FIFA include:
• EMS
• hospitals preparation
• port health at all ports of entry to South Africa
• environmental health services (including food control)
• communicable disease control
• FIFA fan parks and public viewing areas
• forensic pathology
• forensic clinical medicine
• health promotion to communicate prevailing health circumstances
(e.g. H1N1)
• chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threats
• service provision.
In the interest of protecting public health, it remains a priority of
the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries to ensure
that animals and plants are disease-free. Inspection services at all
South African border posts (land, sea and air) are being upgraded.
Additional sniffer dogs were obtained in 2008/09 as part of the
Sedupe K9 Sniffer Dog Programme for the detection of prohibited
agricultural substances at ports of entry.
INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
TECHNOLOGY (ICT)
Telkom and Sentech have been contracted to provide the required
ICT infrastructure.
Access network establishment
The access network infrastructure (“last mile”) refers to the network
extension between the Telkom Core Network and the stadiums/
International Broadcasting Centre (IBC) Telkom Carrier Room.
Backup satellite network establishment
The delivery of the satellite backup network will include the
deployment of a second Sentech Teleport at the location of the IBC,
Nasrec, Johannesburg.
Telkom core network upgrade
Telkom will upgrade its core network
infrastructure by upgrading the
optic-fibre links between all the 10
stadiums and
the IBC as
well as
between the IBC and international undersea submarine cable landing
points at Melkbosstrand on the west coast and Mtunzini on the east
coast.
International Broadcasting Centre upgrade
The 2010 FIFA World CupTM will, for the first time in the history of
the tournament, be broadcasted in high-definition television through
mobile telephones. Over 15 000 media representatives will use the
IBC to cover the 2010 FIFA World CupTM from South Africa.
International bandwidth capacity upgrade
The provision for the broadcaster’s signals from the IBC will be a
commercial process between the service-providers (Telkom and
Sentech) and the broadcast partners. This will be effected through
Telkom performing upgrades to its South Atlantic 3 (SAT-3) and
South Africa Far East (SAFE) cables.
Each stadium will install dedicated local area telecommunications
infrastructure to support the wider telecommunications and
broadcast project.
VOLUNTEER PROGRAMME
A total of 15 000 volunteers from across the globe will contribute
their time, skills, knowledge and enthusiasm for the 2010 FIFA
World CupTM. Out of the 15 000 volunteers, 80% will come from
South Africa, 10% from the other countries on the continent of
Africa and the remainder from the rest of the world.
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 Volunteers will work in areas of information services, media,
protocol, spectator services and transportation. All the recruited
and selected volunteers will be trained.
The 2010 Organising Committee’s (OC) Volunteer Programme
is implemented on two levels: 2010 OC volunteers and host-city
volunteers. Volunteers will either service FIFA or assist spectators
with information on host cities and stadiums.
PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT
The Department of Environmental Affairs has embarked on wide-
scale environmental communication initiatives. These include the
National Legacy Report and several campaigns around greening.
The department has conceptualised several Expanded Public Works
Programme projects, which include the:
• Waste-Collection Project: The department will assist
some host cities with waste collection to ensure that cities are
clean. This will happen prior, during and after the tournament.
Temporary staff will be trained and employed for this purpose by
the respective appointed service-providers during this period.
• National Environmental Volunteer Project: Some 500
volunteers will receive training in environmental issues, tourism
and 2010 FIFA World CupTM match-related information.
• Non-Motorised Transport Project: The project is an
attempt to reduce carbon emissions. At least three of the nine
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host cities are considering the implementation of bicycle lanes in
strategic locations for the 2010 FIFA World CupTM.
• Training of Energy Auditors: Some 100 energy auditors will
be trained to address the shortage of energy auditors’ skills in the
country.
• Carbon Offset Programme: The department has collaborated
internationally to map out the carbon offset as a result of hosting
the 2010 FIFA World CupTM.
ENSURING SUFFICIENT ENERGY SUPPLY
The Department of Energy has taken the lead to ensure that all energy
matters are addressed for the 2010 FIFA World CupTM. Technical
power for critical elements of stadiums will run on generators and
grid supply will be provided as backup, as required by FIFA.
Between 2007 and 2010, over R300 million had been invested by
host provinces in the procuring of generators and expanding and
upgrading electricity infrastructure.
SPORT AND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT
The hosting of the 2010 FIFA World CupTM gives an opportunity to
build on existing programmes that involve South Africans in healthy
physical activities and to grow communities through sport.
 Investing in people

About R25 million has been allocated across all nine provinces from
2007 to 2010 for club development in disadvantaged communities. A
further investment of R212 million for school and community sport
has been made over the same period.

ARTS AND CULTURE

The Department of Arts and Culture will use the 2010 FIFA World
CupTM to market the African cultural experience to the international
community; express the African identity; educate people about our
national symbols; and showcase our diversity through music, arts and
crafts, dance, food and fashion. The department will play a key role
in the FIFA final draw, and the 2010 FIFA World CupTM opening and
closing ceremonies. The department will also develop and upgrade a
selection of community art centres and ensure that all departmentally
funded institutions produce a world-class tournament programme.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

Since government has declared the 2010 FIFA World CupTM a
protected event, the Department of Trade and Industry is responsible
for the protection of intellectual property rights. “Protected event”
means that the 2010 FIFA World CupTM is protected in terms of South
Africa’s intellectual property laws and regulations. Enforcement of
national legislation is being carried out by the Sars, SAPS and other
relevant bodies.

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12 Stadium images sourced from 2010 FIFA World Cup Organising Committee South Africa, FIFA
Stadium inspection tour, from end September to beginning October 2009.