Speaker, I would like to greet the committee that is organising the 2010 Fifa World Cup, who are among us today, especially the CEO of the 2010 Local Organising Committee, Dr Danny Jordaan. The Fifa World Cup final draw has developed into a major live show that is being followed, with great excitement, by millions of people across the world. It will reignite the 2010 World Cup fever, not just in the host country, but also in the qualifying countries, where excitement is mounting as we draw closer to next year's Fifa flagship event.
On the preparations made, let me congratulate Dr Danny Jordaan, as well as his committee management, for the infrastructure development in preparation for the event, including the stadia, roads, airports, hotels, tourist attraction areas, and diverse South African artistic cultures in music, dance and so on.
We would , however, like to caution the Local Organising Committee on a matter of concern, the fact that Gauteng Province will not pay the extra R1,3 billion to have the first phase of the Gautrain ready before the 2010 World Cup. The section between the OR Tambo Airport and Sandton is supposed to be finished by 27 June 2010 while the tournament will have started by 11 June 2010. This is a real concern.
Another concern is the issue of sex workers. In South Africa we do not yet have a law that governs this. Other countries that already have laws are asking questions. Last week in Paarl we had questions as to what South Africa was saying about sex workers. We need to look at the matter and say what South Africa says so that people who come to our country will have answers.
Allow me to mention again an issue regarding 2010 that concerns me more than anything: the competence that is expected of our team in South Africa, Bafana Bafana, which has been very weak of late. We are worried about whether we as a country will make it. [Time expired.] Thank you very much, Speaker. [Applause.]