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Stadiums will be ready for 2010 Football world cup

Article Published: Tuesday 24 June 2008

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Loftus Versfeld and Pretoria City will be ready on time for the 2010 World Cup finals.

Reacting to media reports that Loftus and the Tshwane Metro were behind schedule for 2010, Loftus manager Hugo Kemp admitted that the upgrading of the stadium was "slightly behind schedule" but that there was nothing to worry about.

Kemp told Sapa on Tuesday: "Every construction job goes behind at some stage.

This is not a concern as we will make up time lost. I can assure the country and Fifa (the soccer controlling body) that all the renovations for Loftus will be completed by December 2008.

The upgrading at Loftus is not major compared with other World Cup venues."

Kemp pointed out that the cost of the upgrade to Loftus was R100 million. The rebuilding of Soccer City, south of Johannesburg, is estimated at about R1.56 billion.

"I have no fear whatsoever we will complete the renovations ahead of schedule on December 2008," said the confident Kemp.

The renovations are only scheduled to be completed in March 2009 according to Tshwane Metro spokesman Console Tleane. The report in the Beeld newspaper said that Minister in the President's Office, Dr Essop Pahad, had made no secret that the government was not happy with Tshwane's preparation for 2010.

The report said that 2010 matches scheduled for Loftus could be switched to Johannesburg if the stadium was not completed on time.

However, Tleane said: "I was present at that meeting last Thursday and the minister did not show major concern for deadlines. The meeting was a routine one dealing with Loftus.

We accepted there were slight delays but nothing to get worried about."

The meeting was attended by 2010 Local Organising Committee (LOC) chairman Irvin Khoza, chief executive officer Danny Jordaan and the president of the South African Football Association Molefi Oliphant who is also a member of the LOC.

Jordaan, who is in the Austrian capital Vienna attending the European Championships, also strongly denied that there were any major problems with Loftus: "There is no chance World Cup games would be taken away from Loftus.

The stadium will be completed on schedule.

I actually praised Tshwane at that meeting for their good work in getting the stadium and city prepared for 2010. It is all systems go as far as the LOC are concerned in Tshwane."

Meanwhile, representatives from Pretoria and the other 2010 host cities, Johannesburg, Polokwane, Nelspruit, Rustenburg, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, Durban and Bloemfontein are in Austria giving presentations to European soccer officials about their readiness to host the first World Cup on African soil.

Conculded Tleane: "If we would not be ready then why on earth would be making these presentations in Austria?"

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