Soccer City in Johannesburg will
hold the opening game and final of next year's Africa Cup of Nations finals, the South African sports minister Fikile Mbalula
said on Friday as all the host cities were announced.
The rest of the 16-team tournament will be played in Durban,
Nelspruit, Port Elizabeth and Rustenburg, which were all venues
for the 2010 World Cup.
But new stadiums built for the World Cup in Cape Town and
Polokwane have been left out, it was announced at a government
briefing.
Cape Town had been the only proposed venue to publicly raise
objections to being asked to pay around 22 million rand ($2.85
million) for the right to host matches.
The South African Football Association needs more than 100
million rand to finance the hosting of the three-week tournament
next January 19-February 10.
The controversy over the funding of the tournament has seen
the announcement of the host cities delayed three times.
Mbalula provided no clarity on the solution to the funding
issue, but said the government would meet with the cities soon
for talks.
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