{"id":14555,"date":"2010-12-02T09:43:42","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T07:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=14555"},"modified":"2010-12-03T10:46:52","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T08:46:52","slug":"social-policy-superdome-party-puts-cape-town-on-the-tourism-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/cape-town\/social-policy-superdome-party-puts-cape-town-on-the-tourism-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Policy Superdome Party puts Cape Town on the tourism map"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A massive dome structure\u00a0has been\u00a0erected on the Camps Bay High School\u00a0sport field near La Med and the\u00a0Glen Country Club in Clifton, which will be used as a venue today to entertain more than 1500 VIP guests, attending the World Social Security Forum at the Cape Town International Convention Center from today until Friday, reports the Weekend Argus<\/strong>.\u00a0 The location of the ‘superdome’ is superb, and it will be a valuable tourism marketing exercise for Cape Town.<\/p>\n

More than ‘1000 leaders and administrators of social security institutions, policymakers, representatives of international organisations and social policy experts from more than 100 countries’ will attend, according to the newspaper.\u00a0\u00a0 President Zuma is said to also be attending.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The dome is 2000 square meters of covered space, 36 meter wide and 80 meter long, and took five days to erect.\u00a0 It has glass doors\u00a0on the ocean side, to offer the guests a wonderful view on to the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n

Last night the Cape Argus <\/strong>reported that the Superdome has not received the permission from the City of Cape Town to host the event.\u00a0 A temporary land use departure is required to host an event on schoolgrounds.\u00a0\u00a0 An engineering certificate is also required, to show that the structure meets engineering and safety specifications.<\/p>\n

POSTSCRIPT\u00a03\/12:<\/strong>\u00a0 The Atlantic Sun<\/strong> reported yesterday that the cost of the Superdome Party\u00a0is R4million.\u00a0 The Western Cape Minister for Social Development, Patricia de Lille, declined to attend, saying “it’s a waste of money”.<\/p>\n

Chris von Ulmenstein, Whale Cottage Portfolio: www.whalecottage.com<\/a>\u00a0 Twitter: @WhaleCottage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A massive dome structure\u00a0has been\u00a0erected on the Camps Bay High School\u00a0sport field near La Med and the\u00a0Glen Country Club in Clifton, which will be used as a venue today to entertain more than 1500 VIP guests, attending the World Social Security Forum at the Cape Town International Convention Center from today until Friday, reports the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[15,3,124,22,21],"tags":[847,1731,32366,256,32378,257,32383,8938,1420,1374,8937,8936,8935,821,32373,8934],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t