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Less is more

April 14th, 2010 by admin

Organising costs of the previous two world cups in Korea-Japan and Germany were approximately US$7 billion and US$7.7 billion respectively. South Africa’s organising costs are estimated to be US$3.7 billion. (www.f2010.com)

This week’s theme: South Africa and the World Cup

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2 Responses to “Less is more”

  1. abbas khan says:

    South African costs obviously do not take into account the costs of building the various stadiums.

  2. Jonathan says:

    Abbas these costs do include the cost of building the stadiums.According to our source the definition of organising costs is as follows.

    Organizing Costs = estimated numbers calculated by primarily taking account of the investments in infrastructure, sports facilities (such as the stadiums/venues), less about media and indirect costs

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