World Cup In South Africa

In 2012, South Africa hosted the World Cup. Many people thought and said that the FIFA World Cup was good for South Africa, but what if it was not. Part of the goal of the world cup was to bring countries closer together and as Nelson Mandela said, "Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. It has the power to unite people in a way that little else does." However, did the event get what was intended? There were lots of preparations needed for the World Cup, ` the tournament had plenty of positive sides such as money from sponsors, job opportunities created as well as more tourism. There were also big negative effects on the economy, local business and the community that critics say the world cup was not as good

The biggest sponsors are Adidas, Coca-Cola, Wanda Group, Gazprom, Hyundai, KIA and Visa but they have also had small contracts with Nike and peace. The government Improved 2 original stadiums and turning 3 rugby pitches into football ones, spent 1.3 billion on roads, rails, and air links but this is also a long-term benefit and south Africa need public transport to stadiums as one of the requirements to host the world cup.

The world cup is one of the biggest sports events of the year so for South Africa there was a positive side to the tournament, people said that the world cup was the turning point in south Africa. Because the world cup is such a big deal in the

There were negative effects on the economy of South Africa, local businesses and the social life in South Africa. South Africa has spent billions on preparing for the world cup even though there are people living without a source of electricity or access to a sustainable amount of clean water or even have a decent home for them and their family. This shows that poverty is still a big issue in South Africa. What is worse is that the government of south Africa moved people from poor urban places so that they could build a new stadium, hundreds family lost their already bad homes to the world cup. There are about 50 million people in South Africa, only 5 million people pay taxes, and 13 million have a one of the five social grant which, Eligibility for each grant is dependent on an income-based means. The plan was to make jobs for the unemployed to increase the number of taxpayer population but this plan backfired because those job opportunities were only for a year so as soon as the population of taxpayers went up during the world cup it went down after. This created a false sense of economic improvement. Another problem was that the crime was the increase during the world cup, the reasons could be that most police officers were escorting buses from football players or working at the stadiums or that they were on strike for not enough pay. But the crimes were vandalism like graffiti for certain teams but there were worst crimes