South Africa's 94,000-capacity stadium Soccer City Stadium will be monumental for the continent, according to its project manager Rod Pearce.
The stadium has been built to look like a cooking pot simmering above a ring of fire. It is coloured orange and brown with a ring of lights to illuminate the bottom of the building, simulating fire underneath the pot.
On its scheduled completion later this year, the 3 billion rand (£227 million) venue will be the biggest football stadium in Africa.
“When it is finished it will be the pride not only of South Africa but of the whole continent,” Pearce said. “It will be a dazzling monument to what this country can achieve. I think it proves that we as South Africans, and Africans, can compete with the world's best in terms of what can be done here.”
“There is no reason for us to think we cannot match what every other country in the world can do. This is clearly one of the world's most outstanding stadiums and will be a lasting legacy for generations of South Africa's World Cup.”
The stadium will host the World Cup final on July 11 2010.
