"The 2010 World Cup will be organized in South Africa," said the head of football's governing body, FIFA's Sepp Blatter, who made the announcement in Zurich.
Six years ago, South Africa won its bid to become the first African nation to host a football World Cup.
The country's first post-apartheid president, Nelson Mandela, campaigned hard for the prestigious tournament because he saw it as a way to further reconciliation after decades of racial separation and conflict.
The head of the South African Organizing Committee, Danny Jordaan, a former football player and anti-apartheid activist, was there from the start.
"After 1990, when Mandela walked out of that prison, we saw it as a beginning of the creation of a new South Africa," he sai
