South Africa is to refurbish five existing stadiums and build five new venues for the 2010 World Cup, in terms of an agreement with international football association Fifa.
Briefing the media at parliament on Monday, deputy Sport Minister Gert Oosthuizen said new stadiums would be built at Polokwane in Limpopo, Mbombela in Mpumalanga, in the Nelson Mandela Metro in the Eastern Cape, in KwaZulu-Natal's Ethekweni Metro and in Cape Town.
He said the Cape Town stadium - on the site of the existing Green Point Track - would be a "totally new facility", and would include a dome that could be closed in bad weather.
Stadiums to be refurbished and upgraded included three in Gauteng - Soccer City, Ellis Park and Loftus Versveld - as well as the Royal Bafokeng stadium in North West, and Vodacom Park in Bloemfontein.
Oosthuizen said the government had allocated R242-million for planning the stadiums.
"The spread of the announced stadiums show the government acted swiftly to scrap the imbalance between rugby and soccer fields.
"The five new stadiums will be owned by the municipalities on behalf of the citizens of South Africa," he said.
Education Minister Naledi Pandor said building or refurbishing the stadiums would provide opportunities for communities and institutions to show their skills in construction, tourism and marketing. - Sapa