2010 World Cup was the 19th FIFA World Cup. It took place in South Africa from 11June-11July 2010. The matches were played at ten stadium;Soccer City, Cape Town Stadium, Moses Mabhida Stadium, Ellis Park Stadium, Loftus Versfeld Stadium, Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium, Peter Mokaba Stadium, Mbombela Stadium, Free State Stadium and Royal Bafokeng Stadium in nine cities around the country, the final were played at Soccer City stadium in South Africa's largest city,Johannesburg.
I personally feels that world cup has its advantages and disadvantages.
This year World Cup has not only unified South Africa but it has also benefited the nation and the country’s tourism industry. South Africa investment in the World Cup has led to major infrastructure to support and grow local communities. Furthermore, World Cup has allowed approximately 3, 600,000 additional jobs for local economies over the tournament period and with that a boost in tourism infrastructure results in improved experiences for the visitors.
Besides that, South Africans have significantly benefited from these developments. They receive increased training and up-skilling in hospitality and tourism sectors to cope with the World Cup arrivals, which resulted more skilled people and jobs in tourism.
New urban recreational areas, multi-disciplinary sports facilities and youth football development programs were built or renovated for this year World Cup. These help the disadvantaged communities by providing them job opportunities in the construction of infrastructure and telecoms networks across the country. In addition, the four revamped and six new world-class, multi-purpose stadiums will continue to stimulate economies and provide more jobs in years to come.
The overall economic impact of the World Cup about 62 percent of the total spending is on infrastructure and preparations. The government’s overall investment in infrastructure including roads, airport development and passenger rail.
However, there are social effects during the event. Reports of thefts against visitors to the country for the World Cup. Tourists from China, Portugal, Spain, South Korea, Japan and Colombia had become victims of crime. Besides that,there were some media groups experienced complications in regards to schedule of sporting events, advertising, or broadcasting, as FIFA attempted to maximise control of media rights during the Cup. Furthermore,preparation for World Cup housing project in Cape town resulting in removing 20000 residents from the Joe Slovo Informal Settlement and build rental flats and bond-houses in its place in time for the 2010 World Cup.
In conclusion, 2010 World Cup has its negative and postive on South Africa. Negative impacts include social effects and resettlement which causes the eviction of poor families to make way for 2010 World Cup. Whereas, the positive impact include boosting of the economy, additional jobs for the locals, higher standard of living due to major infrastructure and skills upgrading for the local as well.
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