The completion of the Mandela Bay Stadium in South Africa’s
Eastern Cape province was marked at a ceremony – dubbed the ‘people’s opening’ –
held on Sunday 7 June 2009. With a little over a year until the kick off of the
2010 World Cup the event was attended by 25,000 Port Elizabeth locals many of
which are ardent football fans.
The newly completed stadium has the capacity to seat 48,000 fans and will be the venue to several of the top World Cup games during next year's tournament including one of the quarterfinals.
Fans planning South Africa football holiday are greeting the news as evidence of South Africa’s state of readiness to host the football event. Danny Jordaan, chief executive officer of the 2010 Organising Committee South Africa (OC) emphasized at the stadium’s opening that this is the “fifth of the 2010 Fifa World Cup stadiums now complete a year to go before the event”.
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