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The Closing Ceremony

Written by carino from the blog Carinos Box on 08 Jul 2010
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Okay... that was the closing ceremony for the Olympics at Beijing in 2008

And that too...Nice, hey...?

This here is what the Opening Ceremony of Africa's World Cup looked like:

Don't get me wrong... Im not trying to play spot-the-difference.

All I wanna do is paste this information what-what that I found on the Closing Ceremony happening this weekend.

World cup closing ceremony details

The 30-minute night-time closing ceremony of the 2010 FIFA World Cup will take place at 6.30pm on Sunday, 11 July 2010, at Johannesburg's Soccer City Stadium - ahead of the final. It will be broadcast live in 215 countries to an audience in excess of 500 million viewers, according to the Local Organising Committee (LOC), and will feature 780 cast members and some of South Africa and Africa's top musicians and dancers.
According to LOC CMO Derek Carstens, the ceremony will have a distinctive African feel, with world-class technology and a contemporary, youthful theme.

'Spirit and warmth of Africa'

"Africa's first FIFA World Cup has showcased the unique and colourful spirit and warmth of the African continent and its people. The closing ceremony will pay tribute to that spirit with a world-class production. It will also be a tribute to the football that's been played in the tournament, to the fans and their experiences. It will also be a reminder of what South Africa has offered the world over the last month and encourage fans to come back to our country in great numbers after the tournament," said Carstens.

Columbian pop star Shakira will feature at her second successive FIFA World Cup closing ceremony, performing the hit song Waka Waka with South Africa's Freshlyground. The catchy song has reportedly topped the global music charts in 15 countries and was the most watched video on the Internet in June 2010, with over 75 million views on YouTube to date.

Other artists will include multiple Grammy Award winners Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Jozi, Stoan Seate, Slikour, Zuluboy, Abigail Kubeka, Theo Kgosinkwe, Afrikaans artists Nianell and flutist Wouter, Nigeria's 2Face, Ghana's Samini and popular local traditional group Ihashi Elimhlophe.

"More dramatic lighting and special effects"

Continued Carstens, "While the opening ceremony was more traditional in its approach in order to do justice to Africa's heritage, the closing ceremony will have more contemporary and youthful themes. It takes place at night, which will allow for more dramatic lighting and special effects. We urge those at the stadiums and those tuning in to take their seats early and not to miss what's sure to be a spectacular show."

The Soccer City stadium gates open on Sunday at 2.30pm, six hours before kickoff of the final match at 8.30pm. The closing ceremony starts at 6.30pm and spectators are urged to be seated by 6pm in order to be part of the historic closing ceremony of Africa's first FIFA World Cup.

The commercial display areas at Soccer City will be fully operational from 2pm on final day and will offer a variety of fun-filled activities for early fans, with a number of transport options available from the City of Johannesburg.

So, without commenting on any alleged seven million rands and egos and some boycotting campaigns, I just thought I would say that...

Hopefully we will see more of this:

Beijing'08

And less of this:

South Africa2010

Thank you very much...

ref: Pictures stolen from several sites across the net. And the information too. ((hides))

30 Comments

cleve
08 Jul 2010 11:46

KWA KWA KWA Carino, I was really dissapointed with our opening ceremoney. Very standard grade, hope they are able to pull off the closing. I still remain hopefull

myname
08 Jul 2010 13:08

hahahahaha lol. Usile maan wena! Phela dont forget ukuthi LeboM & Somizi have $$$$$$$$$ in their accounts. Even if iyabheda this closing, someone would be rich for feeding us a rotten cabbage.

Thats SA for you girl. Eish we will just hope as Cleve said.

JuneRose
08 Jul 2010 13:21

Quoted from Sowetan

Unlike the opening ceremony, which celebrated Africa’s humanity and natural surroundings in the form of a dribbling dung beetle, the closing ceremony promises to be technologically advanced.

LOC chief marketing officer Derek Catstens said: “While the opening ceremony was more traditional in order to do justice to Africa’s heritage, the closing ceremony will have contemporary and youthful themes. UNQUOTE

I also hope for the best, we must show the world that we have other talents.

Dini
08 Jul 2010 13:45

The opening was great it was excellent it was African it was South African

PY
08 Jul 2010 15:12

From my point of view the opening was fabulous it was more African (not British/Amaerican/Chines/Indians….) & remember its soccer world cup not the olympics, that means we can expect soccer players showing their tricks, dribbling, skills (ukuteka ibhola) or what ever, not hoola hoops as if this is the Olympics, don’t get this wrong Beijing opening was based on Beijing tradition, and you don’t expect us to act like Chines, we should show the world that we are proudly Africans and other countries expect to see that, not other peoples traditions/roots.
Non Africans enjoy seeing the African roots, dancers, cultures & traditions.
I am sorry Cariri...if got this all wrong, but this was just my opinion. The opening was beautiful & hopes that the closing will too.

carino
08 Jul 2010 15:33

@PY

I think the mistake I made was of putting this piece together from an assumption that someone who would read it will remember Blaque's 'Lets Be Frank' which was about the Opening Ceremony and how chaotic it was.

The only purpose of this piece here was to put up that article in a shaded block. Everything else is just me saying I hope it wll be less chaotic, thats all... The comparison with the Beijing thingie is to say.. though they had too much activity which also reflected their cultures, they however looked like they knew what they were doing.. so we hope that the closing ceremony will be more like that - not that it should look Asian, no!

maud
08 Jul 2010 15:41

you know what Carino no comment

Don't get me wrong... Im not trying to play spot-the-difference. iyo i am done

myname
08 Jul 2010 15:55

Iyoooooo PY then i have no clue what being an African mean. Maybe i should watch it again.

They were all over that field, colourful like smarties, jumping like lunatics....ndiyaxolisa but it sucked.

PY
08 Jul 2010 15:57

"The only purpose of this piece here was to put up that article in a shaded block. Everything else is just me saying I hope it wll be less chaotic, thats all..."
"though they had too much activity which also reflected their cultures, they however looked like they knew what they were doing.. "

OK Carino...I gt it loud & clear, it wz jst a big misunderstanding.

PY
08 Jul 2010 15:59

myname"colourful like smarties, jumping like lunatics."

LOL haybo uyayibaxa

myname
08 Jul 2010 16:02

lol kaloku uyandazi mna hahahahaha maar ke they were looking ridiculous

MeekyM
08 Jul 2010 16:08

KWA KWA KWA KWA KWA KWA, @ myname, that's a gud one, smarties. poor smarties

cleve
08 Jul 2010 16:32

my name, nami I felt like they looked like smarties!!!!!!!!!

ThatDude
08 Jul 2010 22:32

Watching that opening ceremony was torture.i saw a snipet on the news the day before when they were practising,and i remember saying to my brother "im sure that the footage was a few weeks back"little did i know,it was amateur the whole thing,im stil asking when last was r kelly relevant

ThatDude
08 Jul 2010 22:39

I dont understand whats hard,they could have just hired the guys who did the opening and closing for china.its evident we south africans are not competent.but alas im praying closing is spectacular,but something says its gonna be worse then closing kodwa

Green.arrow
09 Jul 2010 08:51

That third picture killed me in Blaque's article...still killing me now. I hope the non-uniform jumping meant something artistic that day cos the picture says ....chaos..

Looking at it...reminds me of the Masai warriors...i have this image of them from a doci, they were jumping uniformly straight up in their red garments dont remember what for... a pleasure to imagine.

Otherwise. We can only hope for a good show on sunday.

mguga
09 Jul 2010 11:38

Eish, cant get over the "Red Ants" picture (5), it still haunts me even today. I Hope the closing ceremony will erase what i saw on the 11th of June.

I'm warming up to the Waka Waka song, i'll be singing along.... love the dance moves as well!!!!

tizoz
09 Jul 2010 12:11

LEBO M MORAKE is still adamant he will be part of the closing ceremony! if his creative work is altered in any way he will be pressing charges on Monday the 12th because that would be undermining his work especially that the closing ceremony will form part of his birthday celebrations...... WTF!

ms.tebby
11 Jul 2010 16:48

after watching the repeat of the opening ceremony this morning, all i can say is ''nc nc nc nc...'' SMH at the same time!

Tashi
11 Jul 2010 19:01

Lurving the screen on the stage'floor,

Green.arrow
11 Jul 2010 20:06

I was so emotional.....i enjoyed it.....although i had the acquired "blogville" critical
eye nagging me....but i enjoyed i enjoyed!!!

Judging from the twitter pics and having been to a game, i think the view is much better in the stadia than on tv...

Im gonna miss the world cup and all about it....:-( Tomorrow things are back to normal

Tashi
11 Jul 2010 23:34

Feeling exactly the same Green - enjoyed every moment of it all and gonna miss it bigtime!!

myname
12 Jul 2010 07:36

Thats exactly what we call BEAUTIFUL. Although i was not sure whether it was a computer or what but it worked.

It was amazing & i loved it! Sithi isiXhosa, into entle iyanconywa so BRAVO!

Im glad Phillip is resting in Spain, sorry Netherlands.

So what next since the WC is over......Is Juju coming back? By the way i missed him. He was so quiet. You would swear he's not here.

myname
12 Jul 2010 07:49

Can some1 tell me whats up with this Paul thing (the octopus)? Is he/she a prophet or something?

I feel pity for someone who is Paul coz this name is so popular.

myname
12 Jul 2010 07:55

I didnt know we got 60million for losing

GML
12 Jul 2010 07:56

It was a beautiful closing ceremony. I enjoyed it.

The audio was still bad and we could hardly hear the singers especially Stone but it was a nice.

Well done to those involved.

carino
12 Jul 2010 09:01

The last bit was so emotional, I wanted to cry for real... That part when they were all singing...the Afrikaans people, the flute and Stoan and Zolani dressed in the better dress. It was so emotional the way we said Thank you to the world...

I'll stop there. It was really beautiful...

I also had my blogville critical eye nagging me and I think thats why I felt a bit bored with the too much "dramatic lighting and special effects" and the delayed timing when we'd be looking at the same pictures rounding-rounding for 5 minutes or so.

Otherwise, it was good shem...

So was that what Lebo M had come up with... or did they listen to him and not use his creative material??

Vesa
12 Jul 2010 09:58

I also had my blogville critical eye nagging me and I think thats why I felt a bit bored with the too much "dramatic lighting and special effects" and the delayed timing when we'd be looking at the same pictures rounding-rounding for 5 minutes or so.

I think the pictures were a bit overdone, but overall it was beautiful!

tizoz
12 Jul 2010 11:15

Hey.... at least we has less ppl running up and down this time.

I must say it was a tearjerker... Yeah graphics over done but what the heck they were beautiful so why not!

Choreography *SP* is still a problem, they just dont gel that well I think they need simpler movements that would be easy for the camera to pick up and make sense even on a wide shot. at the moment it is still chaotic.....

That said the Closing ceremony saw the WC end with a BANG! I loved the fireworks display at the end... it was awesome!

Congrats to Spain.... Well to the Dutch thanx for the Euro's

carino
12 Jul 2010 14:47

@tizoz...at least we has less ppl running up and down this time.

so right...
Choreography *SP* is still a problem, they just dont gel that well I think they need simpler movements that would be easy for the camera to pick up and make sense even on a wide shot. at the moment it is still chaotic....

I felt so too

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