20-10

Just about every S.An you meet is looking forward to ’20-10’ said ‘twenty-ten’. This is odd as it is already 2010! But by ‘2010’, they mean the soccer world cup. Nothing else happening in 2010 seems to count for anything and literally everyone is excited about it as it means so many people from all over the world are coming to their country. They are making major improvements ready for this and most cities you go to are having their roads re-worked to cater for the 2010 visitors. Even many adverts on TV and the like mainly refer to the 2010 soccer. Everything new built for 2010 has an African theme for the tourists which is wonderful, E.G. the seats in the stadium are white and black stripped like zebras, the metal frameworks holding the stadiums up are in the shapes of giraffes, and market stalls are being encouraged selling traditional African food and the like, etc. It really is a huge event for them and I hope it goes well for the S.An people, cultures and economy, as well of course for the visitors coming.

This lion is the 20-10 mascot which you see everywhere in an assortment of sizes!