World Cup Soccer Stadium in South Africa – Peter Mokaba Stadium, Polokwane
For the World Cup, South Africa has used ten stadiums. My blog has already featured nine of those stadiums. Peter Mokaba Stadium is the last of those ten stadiums. Last but not in any order of merit. I simply started with Green Point Stadium in Cape Town, which is the southernmost of all stadiums in South Africa. Then from Green Point I moved northward. Peter Mokaba being the northernmost it is the last in my series. Peter Mokaba was renowned for his struggle for emancipation of South Africa.The design is inspired by the locally iconic Baobab tree, with the steel structure supporting the roof plane gathered together at each corner of the stadium and supported by giant ‘trunk' structures which accommodate vertical circulation ramps and service cores. It has a capacity of 42,000 spectators. [Photo credit: Official FIFA website: http://www.fifa.com/worldcup.]