100 Days to Kick-off – a Cape Town Tourism photo essay comment count

• Experiences
• March 03, 2010 ∥
• By Roy Barford

Therisa Andrews from Cape Town Routes Unlimited shows her diski dance spirit at the 100 Days to Kick-off celebration, outside Cape Town Stadium on Tuesday. Therisa and her colleagues are all very excited about the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ and what it means for Cape Town.

About 800 children, between the ages of six and 16, selected from various gymnastics groups in the Western Cape, performed the diski dance, under the instructions of Amanda Maartens from Cape Town band Coda.

Executive mayor, Alderman Dan Plato, praised the children for their enthusiasm and reminded them that the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ belongs as much to them as to anyone else.

The children thoroughly enjoyed themselves, despite the heat. Cape Town’s tourism director, Nombulelo Mfeka, said she was uplifted by the children’s “genuine spirit”.

“In tourism circles, we don’t often get to see what the children are all about, but today we certainly did, and it is so great.”