Sure - politics aside-
It's a complete rip off of the South African tax payer for the benefit of, among others, FIFA and Julius Malema, whose construction corruption needs little introduction. The national football team is not good enough to qualify. FIFA have described the SA medical disaster cup plan as a disaster and the longer term benefits to the infrastructure are open to questioning especially when you consider the number of unemployed young men who will suddenly be dumped upon the urban environment.
Forgive me please for being somewhat jaded-and all that aside-professional football is a noisesome prostituted affair where no man's team is his own country and the fans of which, in general, seem to behave as though they belonged in camps rather than being allowed to inflict themselves upon the public victims of their anti social behaviour.
Perhaps there will be sufficient Eskom power cuts and cold winter weather to take the steam out of the alcohol fuelled excesses.