The Future has Arrived in South Africa

Over the last two years, we have all been waiting with bated breath for 2010. It has been promoted as the year 3 billion people around the globe watch the FIFA World Cup here and hopefully 500,000 of them come out to see the spectacle. The huge infrastructure spend on our new stadia, transport network and the Gautrain are amazingly on track; 2 million world cup tickets have been sold; and to quote Investec’s economist: “we’re on the road to growth again.”