The expenditure on new stadiums may not have been wasted if it helps to persuade the world that 'Africa is open for business'.

As cities have bent over backwards in preparation for the World Cup, doling out more than R9bn from their own budgets just on stadiums.

The centrepiece of the World Cup is complete but the outer perimeter, in the words of Danny Jordaan, is 'in the process of being beautified'.

The future use of two stadiums built specially for the tournament hinged on their also becoming rugby union grounds: Danny Jordan.

Fifa secretary-general Jerome Valcke says Cape Town pitch should be the benchmark for all others.

Hundreds of striking civil engineering workers in Nelson Mandela Bay, including workers on the 2010 stadium, are set to join a massive protest to blockade the CBD.

With one year to go, stadiums are nearly ready for the greatest sporting spectacle in the world.

The Nelson Mandela Bay municipality is confident that the 2010 World Cup multipurpose stadium will get the thumbs-up at next week‘s 2010 local organising committee meeting in Johannesburg

Port Elizabeth has stepped up the construction pace of its World Cup stadium – to the extent that the project is now on schedule

2010 Soccer World Cup Local Organising Committee is confident that the tournament will fuel long-term sustainable economic growth