White elephants" after the world cup

The South African government has invested about 2.6 billion dollars in the World Cup stadiums.

The 2010 World cup ends in a week when the captain of the wining team lifts up the Cup and the fireworks go up , then South Africa will not know what to do with the stadiums.
a total of ten stadiums in nine cities, four of them renovated and six specially built to host the World Cup, some of them in cities that do not have a team of top flight football or rugby.
"Some of these stages simply will not be able to cover expenses. In this sense, they will lose money, "he said in the past months the daily Mail & Guardian, economist Stan du Plessis, University of Stellenbosch.
The South African government has invested about 2.6 billion dollars in the World Cup stadiums, two of them in small towns of Nelspruit and Polokwane, to receive only four games in the group stage, an unreasonable expense for many analysts.
"If today I am battling a large city, nor do I think they are doing on my colleagues in Polkwane and Nelspruit," said Mike Stucliffe, the administrator of the stadium in Durban, one of the most expensive among the venues built for this phase World Cup final.
According to them, what they are thinking of doing is to organize a schedule of activities such as concerts or sports events, monetize the construction of the enclosures, which some see as Anglo-Saxon white elephants.
Only the stage of Polokwane in Limpopo Province, one of the poorest in the country, provides about two million dollars annually for maintenance, a huge budget for a region greatly needed improvements in basic services such as education.
Cape Town now has a stadium spectacular that cost more than $ 400 million, but according to South African press followed its construction over a quirk of FIFA, and specifically its president, Joseph Blatter, since the city already had a perfectly valid venues for the tournament.


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