Costing R3-billion, the 94 000-capacity stadium is distinctive, resembling a huge calabash -- a hollowed-out gourd used as a cooking pot or water carrier throughout Africa.
The calabash has inspired the colouring of the orange and brown membrane that surrounds the stadium, while a ring of lights will illuminate the bottom of the building, simulating fire underneath the pot.
When it is completed later this year it will be the biggest soccer stadium in Africa.
'Spectacular' stadium will light up World Cup
Mail & Guardian
June 25, 2009
