Cape Town, My City.

Interior view of the new stadium

2010 draws near. What was once a dream, is now a reality and investors, developers and businessman are scrambling to take advantage of what will most likely be an incredibly lucrative investment. Our glorious Green Point stadium is currently underway and is looking to be the an amazing breakfast-bowl shaped stadium. There are other stadiums being built throughout South Africa, but this is a Cape Town centric blog and other provinces are null and void in my eyes. Currently, there are numerous Cape Town tours you can take to view the incomplete stadium. They are very reasonably priced [around R40] and are easy to arrange.

Like most Capetonians, I was hesitant at first to accept this potential eyesore into my city. What is the purpose of wasting billions of rands on a stadium that will only be used for one month? We have a great history of neglecting our once proud buildings [see the Good Hope Centre post] and I am not looking forward to the massive influx of tourists crowding my local McDonald’s.But what use is progress if the growth and development of our town cannot be fully realized? I will embrace the rapid growth of my city and the rabid throngs of tourists, hungry for wooden giraffes and paintings of old African men.