Shoot straight, Katlego Mphela! Show them, Stevie P! Masiziqenye [Let us be proud], Bafana Bafana! [Laughter.]
But late on July the 11th the sound of the last vuvuzela will fade into a chilly Highveld night and the World Cup will be over. Each one of us must ensure that the gift of the World Cup carries on giving for the next 30 years.
For if truth be told, we did not successfully bid for this World Cup to turn a profit on the tournament. No host nation ever does. We are hosting this tournament because it offers the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to rebrand our country as a safe, friendly, value-for-money destination. If we get that right, then the expertise of our engineers, the vision of our architects, and the labour of the tireless workers who built our iconic stadiums will live on in the legacy of 2010.
Hosting a zero-defect 2010 World Cup, as perfect as a Teko Modise pinpoint pass, could increase our tourist numbers by as much as 10% per year. That is equivalent to 125 000 extra jobs, an extra R20 billion of GDP every year, and around R6 billion more in tax revenue annually. That's enough to pay off the stadiums within three years and the national fiscus's contribution to the tournament of R33 billion within six years. That's the legacy we need to protect.
So, let's make sure we give all our football fans Africa's warmest welcome and do not overcharge them. Let's keep our country spotlessly clean and our tourists safe. Let's make sure that for the next 40 days the only strikers around are those surging towards our opponents' goals. Thirty-four billion people will be watching. [Laughter.]
The year 2010 has accelerated our growth towards one nation with one future. We must be doing something right if Blue Bulls fans from Pretoria now blow the vuvuzela with their nearest fellow supporters in Soweto. And that legacy, as the credit card commercial suggests, is "priceless". Nkosi sikelel' iAfrika. [God bless Africa.] Thank you. [Applause.]