Cape Town, on the south Atlantic coast, boasts a new 70,000-seat stadium with backdrops of the apartheid-era prison at Robben Island on one side and its iconic Table Mount on the other.
VOA: standard.2010.06.02
France and Uruguay contested a truly awful goalless draw in the second match of the 2010 World Cup at the CapeTownStadium.
"For the record, Fifa did not tell Kulula that they could not use soccer balls, or the word 'South Africa', or the CapeTownstadium, or the national flag or vuvuzelas, " said a statement from football's world governing body.
The game will kick off a few hours before the start of the "90 Minutes for Mandela" match between an Africa XI and a Rest of the World XI at Cape Town's Newlands Stadium.