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Soccer city the flagship 2010 world cup stadium and the home of next year’s Fifa world cup Africa tournament is now open. I drive to Soweto every now and then and for the past 2 years I’ve always made sure to take the Booysens offramp so that I can get a glimpse of the construction and its been worth the detour every time.

The stadium is called the calabash and it’s pretty impressive. Camouflaged in and amongst sandstone coloured egoli mine dumps and the reddest soil you’ll ever see. A spaceship about to lift off, a sophisticated goosebump-inducing dome shaped shack with rust coloured panels. just awesome. My sister, bought the whole family tickets for some games next year and I hope one of the matches we go to will be at the calabash.

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via LD, thanks