Tag Archives: 2010 Fan Walk

The ‘unhappy compromise’ shows signs of coming of age

07 August 10 4 Comments

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The Cape Town Foreshore has been described as an ‘unhappy compromise’ resulting in series of ‘wind-blown stretches of asphalt and concrete, filled with car parks and roaring traffic, inaccessible to pedestrians.’* Yet on a still winter’s morning, in the early dawn light, on foot, the Foreshore can almost be beautiful.…

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Post 2010 paradigm shifts create opportunities for new city development

30 July 10 8 Comments

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In 2008, the City of Cape Town and the Cape Town Partnership published the Central City Development Strategy – a framework to guide change and manage growth over the next ten years. We are currently reviewing and updating the strategy in light of the 2010 World Cup experience.…

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Cape Town Squared (or how some of our most valuable public assets are not being properly used)

20 July 10 5 Comments

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Do you remember the popular zebra artworks dotted around public spaces in Cape Town during the World Cup? Well, they’ve now migrated to the Artscape Piazza on the Foreshore.

The 33 zebras form an exhibition entitled ‘Not all is Black and White’, by the World for All…

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Fan Walk tradition continues as Mandela Day is celebrated in Cape Town Central City

19 July 10 2 Comments

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Citizens spontaneously reactivated the 2010 Fan Walk yesterday to say no to xenophobia and happy birthday to Nelson Mandela. Bravo to Charly’s Bakery for taking the lead, and to everyone who took part.

The Ubuntu Festival in Upper St George’s Mall was also a great success. The Festival, which focuses…

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Cape Town Fan Walk lives on through citizen action on Mandela Day, 18 July

15 July 10 0 Comments

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Jacquie Biess is a Capetonian who enjoyed the experience of walking the Fan Walk during the 2010 World Cup. Now she is doing it again for a cause.

On Mandela Day, Sunday, 18 July, Jacquie and her three daughters, all of Charly’s Bakery in the East City, will be on the…

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Ten reasons why the Cape Town 2010 Fan Walk worked so well

07 July 10 7 Comments

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The Cape Town Fan Walk has become one of the talking points of Cape Town’s World Cup experience. The editorial in today’s Cape Argus described it as a ‘masterstroke’. John Robbie of 702 Talk Radio asked me yesterday to what we as a city owed the success of the Fan…

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Cape Town shows the world how to street party

05 July 10 8 Comments

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We were hoping to get 100 000 people on the Cape Town Fan Walk for the Germany vs Argentina 2010 World Cup Quarter Final match. At its peak, the Fan Walk hit an estimated 153 000! This means that when 65 000 people were in the stadium, over 90 000 continued

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Navigating the Cape Town Central City

29 June 10 0 Comments

Navigating the city

As part of our efforts to make the Cape Town Central City more navigable for tourists (and local suburbanites!) during the 2010 World Cup, the Cape Town Partnership and CCID asked Chip Snaddon, well known local cartoonist and illustrator at the Cape Argus, to draw us a humerous guide which showed,…

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“We won the French!”

22 June 10 1 Comment

You would swear from the reaction of the crowd in the streets after the Bafana-French match that we were through to the next round. Everyone was beaming, blowing vuvuzelas, and dancing up and down with great pride. My best moment was when a stranger came up to me in Long Street and shouted…

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Heaven forbid we return to business as usual in the city

18 June 10 1 Comment

Cape Town will never be the same again. Not after the experience of the World Cup. I’m not talking about the infrastructure legacy, or the new facilities created, or the worldwide exposure for Cape Town as a destination. I’m talking about the way in which our attitudes to using the city…

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350 000 people in Cape Town Central City for start of Football World Cup

13 June 10 0 Comments

The City of Cape Town estimates that an astounding 350 000 people visited the Cape Town Central City area on Friday 11 June to watch the World Cup Opening Ceremony and Bafana Bafana-Mexico game on TV and to attend the opening match at the CT Stadium, with 250 000 in…

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I love it when a plan comes together

13 June 10 8 Comments

“I love it when a plan comes together” was one of the catchphrases of John ‘Hannibal’ Smith, a character in the popular 1980s TV-series, The A-Team. I felt like repeating it on Friday evening when I saw 20 000 people (the City of Cape Town’s official figure) using the Cape Town…

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