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Doubling up

By 6000 | 6000 | February 5, 2010

After the huge success of the opening football match at the Cape Town Stadium, the next test comes tomorrow when the crowd limit is doubled from the 20,000 that watched the football to 40,000 for the Stormers v Boland rugby clash. And while they are testing the stadium for World Cup readiness, I am going to [...]

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Cape Town Stadium: Truly Magnificent

By 6000 | 6000 | January 24, 2010

As promised, I can say I was there at the first ever football match played at Cape Town’s 2010 World Cup stadium. And what an experience. As ever, a big football match in the Mother City brought out the true spirit of the Rainbow Nation – every colour, every age – all just there to [...]

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The Soccer Festival @ Cape Town Stadium

By 6000 | 6000 | January 6, 2010

I hate it when people call football “soccer”, but even I won’t let that put me off the first official sporting event at the stunning Cape Town Stadium: The Soccer Festival on Saturday January 23 2010. The attendance is limited to 20,000 for this match between two local sides Santos and Ajax Cape Town as part [...]

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FIFA World Cup Draw Photos

By 6000 | 6000 | December 5, 2009

Photos from the Long Street party, Signal Hill, the City Bowl and the awesome, awesome Cape Town Stadium on the night that Cape Town welcomed the world to the 2010 FIFA World Cup Draw.   After we had watched the draw, we headed up onto Signal Hill to take a look at the Stadium where [...]

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Light up, light up!

By 6000 | 6000 | October 23, 2009

(As Snow Patrol once told us.) They were testing the lights at the Green Point Cape Town Stadium last night. Flickr user donaldza was there to catch it. Thanks, donaldza. Bigger version here. Truly magnificent. EDIT: Just been sent these by email. Arguably even more magnificenterer. (That may not actually be a word.) Bigger versions [...]

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