I have 3 tickets for the semifinal at Cape Town Stadium.
The seats are not as good as I expected so I’m looking to re-sell them.
I’m hoping I can get around R500 for them? Please get in contact with me.

Please see seating position below:

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Below are some images that I took on the day:

The Hot Water Band providing pre-match festivities

CTT Team, Living it LOUDER!

Cape Town flags flying at Cape Town Stadium

Helen Zille enters Cape Town Stadium

The Stormers warming up

The Ball Boy looking on, aspiration in his eyes...

40 000 Fans!

Go Stormers!!!

On the 25th of January the doors will open to this stunning Hotel.
I was Part of the Cape Town Tourism team that went on a Preview Tour today. The variety of Restaurants, conference venues and exquisite suites are highlighted by the fact that our tour lasted 2 Hours. Leanne, our guide for the day was extremely courteous and proffesional while being approachable and humorous. All of the staff had a similar demeanor and made it an awesome experience.
This five-star hotel is ideally located in the centre of historic Cape Town at the entrance to the famous pedestrian precinct, St George’s Mall. The Main entrance however is on Wale Street just before the bend into Adderly.

Taj Cape Town Lobby

Some information from the Official Taj Cape Town website:

Restaurants:

The Taj Cape Town offers an eclectic variety of cuisine and culinary experiences including an Indian specialty restaurant, a relaxed all-day dining restaurant, a champagne and oyster bar and a cigar lounge.

Some Pictures of the Taj Cape Town:

5 Star bathroom

Taj Bombay Brasserie Restaurant

Taj Presidential Suite View of Table Mountain

I’m sure to visit again, once the Hotel is officially opened. Perhaps a Proper review is in order?
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From http://www.businessghana.com:

Fifa’s Organising Committee today approved the procedure for Friday’s draw which will be held in Cape Town.

The seeding was based on the October 2009 FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking.

Ghana, ranked 38th during the month of October 2009 are in Pot 3 with all the four other African qualifiers and three South American candidates.

Brazil, Spain, the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Argentina and England are therefore the seven squads that join hosts South Africa as seeded teams for the Final Draw.

• Pot 2 will be composed of teams from Asia (Australia, Japan, Korea DPR, Korea Republic), North, Central America and the Caribbean (Honduras, Mexico, USA) and Oceania (New Zealand)

• Pot 3 will include teams from Africa (Algeria, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria) and South America (Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay)

• Pot 4 will have the remaining European teams (Denmark, France, Greece, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Switzerland)

The committee also approved the procedure for the final draw:

• hosts South Africa will be automatically positioned as A1; the other seeded teams will be drawn into the other groups B-H, but will always be in position “1” of their group

• groups will be drawn from A to H and the positions in the group will be drawn for Pots 2 to 4

• geographical criteria will also be respected, meaning that no two teams from the same confederation will be drawn in the same group (except European teams, where a maximum of two will be in a group). For example, South Africa cannot play the African teams from Pot 3 and Argentina and Brazil cannot be drawn against the three remaining South American teams.

Seedings:

Pot 1 – South Africa, Argentina, Brazil, England, Germany, Holland, Italy, Spain.

Pot 2 – Australia, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Honduras, Mexico, USA, New Zealand

Pot 3 – Algeria, Cameroon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay

Pot 4 – Denmark, France, Greece, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Switzerland

Looking Good Bafana, Looking Good
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For a behind the scenes view of the Final Draw see my inside scoop here.

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Please Diarise the Cape Town Tourism 200 Days to Kickoff details:

Venue:                                 V&A Waterfront, Ampitheatre

Date:                                     Sunday, 22 November 2009

Time:                                    14h00 – 16h00pm

In celebration of 200 days to kick-off, Cape Town Tourism will be teaching the famous diski dance at the Ampitheatre, V&A Waterfront. Enjoy an afternoon of great Cape Town entertainment and stand a chance to win some CTT memorabilia in the diski dance contest. We are on the look-out for the best diski-dancer on the day! No entrance fee required.

Program:

14h00 – 14h30pm:            Diski dance – teaching the diski dance and great CTT memorabilia to be won!

14h30 – 15h15pm:            CODA performance

15h15 – 16h00pm:            Chad Saaiman performance

This via http://www.homelessworldcup.org

It must have been the South African song which lifts the spirits that allowed them to win 9-1 against Malawi Team.  It was the first time the two teams have played, and it was a special match for the 2 African Countries.
The South African side were too sharp, too fast and skilled for Malawi.  Colin Davids from SA acknowledges that he was nervous in the beginning but then focused and played well. He also acknowledges Gods role in the vicotry. “I pray to God before every game.  Nothing is impossible if you believe in God.”  The members of the South African team will be sad to go home as they have met so many people from so many countries.

Coach Patricio from Malawi was very pragmatic about his loss. “We are here to hav fun. We lost to our brothers.  They deserved it.”

We visited them at their “training area” in Schaapkraal, Cape Town 2 months back as they prepared for Milan. Here are a few pics of that day:

The team recreational area

Here’s a video I took as well

For my original blog post on the Cape Town 2010 site click here.
The Homeless Team Arrives in Cape Town Tomorrow.
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The history of soccer on the Greenpoint   common goes back decades and the visitor centre pays homage to the amazing teams to have won at Greenpoint. With the proposed renaming of Greenpoint Stadium to Cape Town Stadium we look forward to the next evolution of this truly iconic Cape Town landmark.

Cape Town Tourism and CTRU taking a break after the Fanwalk

Lowest step starts at 1850

How about some foosball?

3D Model of the Stadium

Great Logo!

One for Bafana, one for Madiiiba. Ooo ah, ons laat hulle daar

District 6, it's legacy is undeniable

South Africa's soccer Tradition

For more information on the Greenpoint Visitor Information Centre visit their website here.
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I think people where afraid to classify themselves as gay friendly and then be swamped by bus loads of gay travellers. Isn’t any business good business? As with my Sex Tourism post a while back, I would like to highlight that Gay Tourism is a valuable market segment too. Gay Couples tend to have more disposable income; this can be attributed to a number of reasons, though a primary factor being that they tend not to have children.

I think all accommodations should be classified as Gay friendly, and those with gay themed tours be filed as “Gay oriented”. Cape Town is known as the gay capital of South Arica, isn’t it time to embrace that? Perhaps the more conservative amongst us are afraid of the exaggerated gay sterotypes such as Hardo Gay. See Below

Hardo Gay CD Cover

For a 100% straight guy, I laughed my socks off at Hardo Gay. You like it too?
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