Moses Mabidha Stadium
CITY OF DURBAN
Durban’s new Moses Mabhida Stadium has been designed as a state-of-the-art, world-class stadium for the 2010 FIFA World Cup™
and as a multi-functional, hard-working and easy-to-maintain asset for Durban.
This is an asset from which every resident and ratepayer will benefit, as the creation of this precinct means that Durban will be one of the few African cities able to host most of the Olympic disciplines within a single sporting precinct.
Conveniently situated close to the city centre, and as part of the Kings Park Sporting Precinct, the Moses Mabhida Stadium will also be the ideal venue for hosting recreational and cultural events.
With the construction progressing rapidly, the new Moses Mabhida is already becoming a fundamental feature on the city’s landscape and is well on target for FIFA’s final completion date of 31 October 2009.
The entire stadium has been designed and built in line with all the latest safety and security requirements.
The stadium infield has been designed and built in accordance with the latest international sporting codes. It will have the capacity to hold 70 000 spectators during the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ South Africa and 54 000 in legacy mode thereafter.
The grand centre arch, 106m high, will become a world first tourist attraction, thanks to a high-tech cable car designed to take visitors up to its highest point, where they can disembark and take in breathtaking, panoramic views of the city.
The roof, consisting of Teflon coated glass fibre membranes - 46,000 square metres in total – are attached to the arch by 95mm diameter steel cables. Around the perimeter of the stadium structure is an 880m long steel compression ring that maintains the structure of the roof.
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