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Monday, March 1, 2010

Cape Town Stadium for World Cup Football 2010

Stadium for World Cup Football 2010

Name Cape Town Stadium
Year completed 2009
Cost US$330,000,000
Capacity 68,000 (13,000 temporary)
Home to To be confirmed

Trivia During the planning stage, it was referred to by some as the African Renaissance Stadium and was then called the Green Point Stadium. The 37,000 sq m roof weighs 4,500 tons. The Cape Town Stadium, one of several venues built specially for the World Cup, has not had an easy birth. From the off, the project was mired in controversy, with protests that it was located in a predominantly white part of the city, and work was delayed several times by strikes over low wages paid to builders. Nevertheless, it was completed well ahead of schedule.

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