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Article: Transporting our city into the future; The 2010 World Cup will leave behind a rejuvenated public transport system that will serve Cape Town residents long after the soccer fans have gone home, says Premier Ebrahim Rasool.(News)
- Article from:
- Cape Argus (South Africa)
- Article date:
- April 13, 2007
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When the mayor and I recently turned the sod for the Green Point Stadium, I described it as a victory for co-operation over division and compromise over intransigence. Indeed, pragmatism is going to be a critical ingredient as Cape Town moves towards 2010 and as we prepare to host the greatest sporting spectacle in the world.
If I could add a further victory to the deal, then it would be that we conquered, as Capetonians, our small-town thinking, our provincialism, our tendency to undersell ourselves.
It was this underestimation of ourselves that caused the 68 000-seater stadium at Green Point to be put on the agenda for us by the Local Organising ...