I think, long term, that tourism benefitted hugely, and this is still being felt.

The number of tourists has continued to rise, year on year, and a few that I have spoken to have mentioned that they either saw the place on TV during the world cup, or spoke to visitors who raved about the place, so effect there was positive.

Coming back to the Stadia - Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town's are still being a drain in ratepayers, totally under-utilised. Nelspruit's is a disaster - I read it is not being properly maintained and is deteriorating, and is hardly ever used. Maybe someone who went to the recent test match there may comment on that?

The developers of the Stadia were fined around R1-bn for "artificially" pushing up the prices of building there, and judging by the comments creeping out of the woodwork recently it looks like the Gauteng road development followed that example. Questions have been asked how the cost escalated from R6-bn to R20-bn in 6 years. If that REALLY gets scrutinised closely will be interesting to see what wriggles out of the woodwork.

I get the feeling that the Soweto stadium made White South Africans realise Soweto is not a bad place to visit. Rugby matches have been played there, and local shebeens and food venues have experienced white South African visitors, whereas previously (probably) around 99% of visitors were overseas visitors on tours. I have spent a couple of very pleasant afternoons there with friends enjoying the ambience of some of the restaurants...