Add another R 4 million, to Admitted Government Spending on Worldcup!

The Gauteng province spent R4-million on 4613 Soccer World Cup tickets according to Premier Nomvula Mokonyane. Of these 3 000 went to "deserving Gauteng residents who would not be able to afford to buy tickets".

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I would assume these were therefore medium to low priced tickets in the knock out phases, lets say R 300 a ticket. That means the other 1 613 were used for "the purpose of hosting and networking with the government's strategic partners." This then gives an average price of R 1 920 which seems rather extravagant given that this was more than the price of a semi final ticket in the second best category of seats.