R680m stadium for Chiefs
28/06/2006 21:42 - (SA)

# Three big signings by Chiefs

Johannesburg - Kaizer Chiefs literally covered new ground while launching the R680m Amakhosi Stadium project at a sod turning ceremony in Mogale City (Krugersdorp) on Wednesday.

The glamour club of the PSL, with more supporters than any other team in South Africa, will become the first Premier League combination to own a stake - 20% - in their home venue.

The modernised project, which is due to be completed in December, 2008, will cater for 55 000 spectators and will be situated at the former Bob van Reenan Stadium in the Mogale City CBD.

"The day marks a significant turning point in the history of Chiefs," said club chairperson Kaizer Motaung at the opening ceremony, " and is one of the most important moments in the 36-year history of the club."

The property development company, Lefika, Chiefs, the Kaizer Chiefs Supporters Trust and a consortium from Mogale City residents, are the joint shareholders in a venture with far-reaching consequences.

"At last," said Motaung, "a South African soccer team will be able to host their games at a stadium that can truly be called their own."

Designed with an emphasis on safety, the new Chiefs Stadium will incorporate many of the innovations of modern-day stadiums and will accommodate 38 200 seats for the general public, 10 000 for Chiefs season ticket holders, a distinctive Chiefs club area that will cater for 3 000 spectators and private suites that will hold 3 500 people.

Although some have questioned the advisability of Chiefs moving out of their traditional base in Johannesburg, where they are currently playing home games at FNB Stadium, officials pointed at the proximity of Mogale City to Soweto - the cradle from which Chiefs grew as a breakaway off-shoot from Orlando Pirates in 1970.

"It's also situated a matter of 30km from Johannesburg," said Motaung.

"Part of the success story of European soccer is that almost all the top clubs there own their home grounds," he added. "Until now this has almost never happened in South Africa."
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whats going to happen to the fnb?? one of our worldcup stadiums is going to be a white elephant there also a new staduim being built in soweto orlando which is quite impresive looks like the pe staduim and is a 35000 seater

U got pics of the other stadium in Orlando?
FNB wont be a white elephant, its gona be our "wembley", all internationals will be played there & major cup finals will be played there as well

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U got pics of the other stadium in Orlando?
FNB wont be a white elephant, its gona be our "wembley", all internationals will be played there & major cup finals will be played there as well
im not sure i even care if it is a white elephant..its a national monument for football that deserves the major facelift. it might sound financially stupid..it shud play the role of wembley and concerts shud move from loftus etc. to soccer city...FNB is part of the history of the country and the future..and its the right venue to host the final..south african teams have never had their own stadia that they could call home..kaizer chiefs are doing that and can obviously afford to.

thanks for the render mo sorry i dont have the pic of the staduim it was in the earler edition of the post or something on the front page wasnt able to scan maybe mo can construction for that staduim started i think 2 months ago

but why on 55k?? if they are the biggest supported club in SA , why not 70K like many of the european super club venues?

but why on 55k?? if they are the biggest supported club in SA , why not 70K like many of the european super club venues?
because 70k is unrealistic.

i agree with u there it also builds a better atmosphere would rather have 55000 packed staduim than a half empty 70000 ,...absa park is 60000 so 55000 is perfect plus if it gets really full they just charge more for tickets ...its not the size that matters but how u use so look at the gunners good example old staduim was small 40000 i think but it was amazing ps fnb all the way the real home of sa soccer

also seem farking cheep at that cost compared to the 4 billion CT stadium

i hate fnb...demolish it!!! Someone plz tell me what makes fnb sooooo special it is hardly ever filled to capacity, people are scared to go there and nothing special has ever happened there. So someone plz tell me wat right does FNB have to be our country's spiritual soccer home? Any news on whether the chiefs stad may b used for 2010?...it would be a great venue.

ps. FNB will never be equate to a "Wembley" or "Ernst Happel" type national stadium.

i hate fnb...dmolish it!!! Someone plz tell me what makes fnb sooooo special it is hardly ever filled to capacity, people are scared to go there and nothing special has ever happened there. So someone plz tell me wat right does FNB have to be our countries spiritual soccer home? Any news on whether the chiefs stad may b used for 2010?...it would be a great venue.

ps. FNB will never be equate to a "Wembley" or "Ernst Happel" type national stadium.

chiefs stadium will not be used. the host city contracts have already been signed. the location of the stadium in any fact would not meet FIFA requirements. regarding fnb stadium...read up on some history.

I also think that FNB stadium is destined to be a huge white elephant. At 100000 it was always going to be difficult to constantly fill, but now that Kaiser Chiefs and Pirates are building their own stadiums, it will serve no purpose. You can go on about "national stadium" and all that blah, but Chiefs and Pirates get bigger crowds than Bafana Bafana.

Sad as it may seem, Soccer City may be the "glory" for the WC, but thereafter it will be even less utilised than it is at present, so why waste the money on it now?

SAFA should have convinced Pirates or Chiefs to have it as their home stadium, for a country like ours has no need for a stadium that will be used 2 or 3 times a year.

I like the chiefs stadium however and i think that 55 000 is more than adequate. You dont need a monster stadium when the majority of your games will have 20 to 30k if that in the stadium.

i agree with dysan the fnb is going to be a white elephant unless sundowns decide to make it there home ground but there based in pretoria coz pirates has shares in the new ellis park company and chiefs are building a new stad so...eish!

Courtesy of Pule & KaizerChiefs.com

Amakosi Stadium

Kaizer Chiefs will become the first team in South Africa to own a stake in their own stadium when the 55 000 Seater Amakhosi Stadium is completed in 2009.

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The Amakhosi have used no less than 9 stadiums in Johannesburg as their home-ground. The new stadium which is being developed at a cost of R695 million will be part of a greater sports precinct being developed which lies 40km West of Johannesburg.

The Amakhosi Stadium will be ready in December 2009, while the rest of the complex, which will include cricket and rugby stadiums, a sports hotel and a retail shopping centre — specializing in sports equipment — will be developed at a later stage.

The Gauteng Provincial Government will develop other infrastructures around the stadium such as road, rail and general public access to the stadium.

The Amakhosi Stadium Precinct will also become the home of the Kaizer Chiefs Youth Development Programme with the young Chiefs players taking up residency in January 2009. The Amakhosi Stadium will have state of the art media facilities with a press room accommodating more than a hundred members of the media. It will also have more than 204 private executive suites and special access and viewing areas for Amakhosi fans with disabilities.

The stadium plans include a parking area housing 3000 cars and will be built with special parking facilities for buses and taxis to ensure that the traffic flow in and out of the area is smooth.

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The stadium developers have set time lines for the Amakhosi stadium that should open its doors to the public in December 2009, and will be fully operational before the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup. Although, presently not one of the listed hosting stadiums for the 2010 World Cup, the Mogale City Directors are confident that with Chiefs taking up residency in the Amakhosi Stadium they will be able to convince FIFA to play at what will be one of South Africa’s premier sports venues.

Kaizer Chiefs’ supporters will emerge as proud and therefore a significant vanguard of a property that they can identify as their own. It is envisaged that this strategic ownership will address challenging problems around stadium security, maintenance and others when the Kaizer Chiefs supporter claims its responsibility to ensure the prevention of such. We are hoping that we shall set mechanisms and systems in place that will engage our supporters to feel part of a significant growth in the history of their association with the club. We are also working hard to improve systems that will make us the first institution to distribute annual and seasonal tickets to our loyal supporters.

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It is important to note that the Amakhosi will remain a trendsetter in football matters in this country. The Amakhosi Stadium will thus sustain that role and the legacy of a successful brand that has now enhanced its value and prestige in becoming a significant role player in the history of football in South Africa. I am proud that our association with both the provincial government and the local community of Mogale City will present an integrated model for the future development of football facilities, its administration and management as we envisage an era beyond 2010.” — Kaizer Motaung

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no doubt it is MIGHTY impressive. but i still dont get the point of this proliferation of new stadia, when others for the world cup will cease use afterwards. And i still stick to my earlier comments on soccer city, if pirates and chiefs are getting new stadia of their own, why will they use it except for finals? it is terribly worrying

btw rainbow junction is still going to be built in pretoria

^^ enough said about duplication!

R695mil? what a bargain!!

btw rainbow junction is still going to be built in pretoria

100% agree with you. they should have looked at taking over Soccercity and
Durban's Moses Mabhida. It doesn't make sense.

100% agree with you. they should have looked at taking over Soccercity and
Durban's Moses Mabhida. It doesn't make sense.

agree with what kulani? as far as i know rainbow junction will still be built but private funds will be used

agree with what kulani? as far as i know rainbow junction will still be built but private funds will be used

Oops, I guess i missed the reply button on Dysan's comments and you were the victim. LOL

ps sundowns are also currently building there own new sandium so whos going to use rainbow junction ??

ps sundowns are also currently building there own new sandium so whos going to use rainbow junction ??

Haven't heard about Sundown's stadium. Where are they building this and how much is it going to cost? What is going to be the stadium capacity?

Sundowns is not building a new stadium.

Sundowns got no money for a new stadium

Sundowns got no money for a new stadium

DB, Sundowns is one club that can build a stadium anytime. Its the wealthiest team in South Africa. Patrice Motsepe and MTN are pouring big bucks into the team. When he was asked if Sundowns was gonna build its own stadium, he told the media that they busy looking into the matter, but I think he will use one of Pretoria Stadiums, I'm reluctant that he will build one from scratch. Super Stadium is currently under renovations but it belongs to SuperSport United even though Sundowns used it, my guess is that he might sign a deal with the Mamelodi municipality to use the HM Pitje after 2010 as it will also be under renovations.

all these new stadiums seem utterly brainless ego trips. many are simply going to fail. Why not do up an existing one to a better standard rather than duplicating? do all these teams need these stadia? Do they all believe they will get a return on investment?

Any update on this one? Has it been stalled, or is it being built?

Any update on this one? Has it been stalled, or is it being built?

being built.

Any pictures? Looked pretty big in the renders.

no sorry.

I just have to get directions to the site and I will take pics for you gents. I'm staying like 10 minutes away from Mogale City.

so whos gng to use the junction last i saw there we 3 new stands going up and the sundowns staduim i just wish the sports indust. cld work together

the more the merrier. as long as somebody is paying.

And there's also the Rand Stadium + Dobsonville Stadium upgrades which should currently be going on.
In the end, there will be for the great Johannesburg only: Soccer City, Ellis Park, Amakhosi, Orlando Stadium, Rand Stadium, Dobsonville Stadium + Johannesburg Stadium. Are Orlando Pirates going to use Orlando Stadium as their anchor stadium?
In this case, who's gonna play in Soccer City?

And there's also the Rand Stadium + Dobsonville Stadium upgrades which should currently be going on.
In the end, there will be for the great Johannesburg only: Soccer City, Ellis Park, Amakhosi, Orlando Stadium, Rand Stadium, Dobsonville Stadium + Johannesburg Stadium. Are Orlando Pirates going to use Orlando Stadium as their anchor stadium?
In this case, who's gonna play in Soccer City?

not sure..suppose it will act as the national stadium ala wembley

Talking about sports facilities in the West Rand, I'd also be curious to know more about the Arena Sporting Precinct (Roodepoort) that's advertised in the Johannesburg Property Company website: http://www.jhbproperty.co.za/siteimgs/Projects/Arena.pdf
Looks like a very exciting project, but I don't know which stage it has reached so far.
Does anybody know?

And there's also the Rand Stadium + Dobsonville Stadium upgrades which should currently be going on.
In the end, there will be for the great Johannesburg only: Soccer City, Ellis Park, Amakhosi, Orlando Stadium, Rand Stadium, Dobsonville Stadium + Johannesburg Stadium. Are Orlando Pirates going to use Orlando Stadium as their anchor stadium?
In this case, who's gonna play in Soccer City?

Dobsonville Stadium


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Rand Stadium


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Amazing project.

I dont think they going to go ahead with that?

Here's the response from one of the project managers at the Joburg Property Company:

Good day Sir,

The report for the allowance to release the facility for development and alienation is due to be tabled at Council in January 2008.

Based on the approval of the above mentioned report the facility will be released on public tender by JPC for the development and long term management.

It usually takes 3 months to obtain a response from Council. Meanwhile i would encourage you to keep in contact with me in this regard.


Kind regards,

Tembakazi Vanqa
011 339 2700 x221

I hope they will give you an answer. At least he had guts to reply to you. I also want to know what's happening with this project. May be we all need to send them emails so that they can react quicker.

I hope they will give you an answer. At least he had guts to reply to you. I also want to know what's happening with this project. May be we all need to send them emails so that they can react quicker.

Yes, i would not mind to fire some emails. I really do think we as SSC - South Africa should actually start to communicate more often and formally with the city officials regarding developments in the city. Perhaps we may even get them to recognize our contribution through SSC and listen to our voice. Does anyone have some e-mail addresses of relevant people that we can contact.

Just like Xavixav, it will be great to write to them and publish our e-mails and their responses here, so that we all can follow all communication with city officials. Perhaps we can get an inside track on developments and other related inner city initiatives.

anything on the kazier chiefs stadium project?

well i know construction has started on it i just don't know how far it is at this moment as for the render xavi posted i hope it gets canned we have too many soccer stadiums at the moment unless they play on building a basketball center,netball center

Here's an article about that stadium project in today's Mail&Guardian. Don't know about you guys, but I have the feeling we won't see this stadium before long.

Chiefs' R1-billion stadium crisis

Lucky Sindane

Five years after its developers announced that the construction of the Kaizer Chiefs Stadium would be complete by this year, not a brick has been laid.

Construction work on the Bob van Reenen stadium precinct in Krugersdorp, earmarked by Chiefs as their home venue, was expected to begin in July 2006 and it was to be ready to use in 2008.

But no work has started since Mogale City, Chiefs, Lefika and the Gauteng provincial government entered into an agreement in 2003.

The blame for the delay has been laid at the door of property development company Lefika Emerging Equity, the executive director of which is Bobby Motaung, Chiefs’ general manager and the club chairperson’s son.

The company apparently failed to raise the R1,2-billion needed for the construction of the stadium. It also allegedly failed to adhere to environmental assessment and heritage preservation regulations.

In January, Lefika was castigated in a Nelspruit municipality audit report in relation to a R1-billion tender irregularity for the Mbombela Stadium in Mpumalanga.

The Krugersdorp Stadium has been under lock and key since 2006 ahead of the intended construction work. Grass growing on its outskirts looms and the venue looks like a cattle pasture rather than a sports ground. The closure has robbed Krugersdorp’s school and amateur sports clubs of a recreational venue.

Chiefs, which at the time of the announcement said the venture would make the club the first to “own a stake in their own stadium”, has been strangely reticent, choosing to refer all enquiries to Lefika rather than to comment, casting doubt on whether the club is sticking to the plan or whether the stadium is solely a Lefika project.

Though the stadium’s sponsors, Lefika and Mogale City, announced in 2006 that the stadium would be ready by 2008, the club’s website appears to have extended the deadline by a year.

The Gauteng Economic Development Agency (Geda), which facilitated discussions between Lefika and Mogale City, conceded that the delay was worrying because it would lead to cost escalations.

Geda spokesperson Barba Gao-ganediwe said Geda’s involvement was “non-financial”, but confirmed that Lefika had approached the provincial government with a view to getting it to invest in the project.

Gaoganediwe said that as non-financial partner, Geda was not privy to the timeline for restarting the project but was concerned that the delay would affect expectations created by the announcement of the project, particularly because the Mogale City area had been hard hit by the closure of gold mines in recent years.

Sipho Solfafa, the 2010 World Cup project manager on the West Rand, said construction had been delayed because Lefika was experiencing financial problems.

“Even though Mogale City was not appointed a 2010 host, after the bid announcement the layout and design of the Amakhosi Stadium was changed to meet Fifa standards. The quotation then amounted to R1,2-billion and Lefika said it had secured R500-million from Nedbank for the initial design, which was expected to cost R700-million. But that was just talk, they showed nothing to prove that they had secured funds from Nedbank.”

He added: “Lefika then had a shortfall of about R700-million and it had to secure additional funding. We suspected that it was having financial problems when they [Lefika officials] came back to us and started talking about selling their shares for R1,2-billion -- the value of the construction of the stadium. They had problems but they didn’t say anything. They are good at talking about the money they [say they] have but they can’t show it to us. What we want to see is what they have.”

Mogale City municipal officials were hoping the stadium would be completed in time to host some of the 31 sides taking part in the 2010 World Cup. “We still have hopes and think that it will be completed by December 2009,” said Solfafa.

Geda was also confident the deal would be rescued but officials were loath to propose a time frame. “Perhaps the timelines [set earlier] did not accommodate possible mishaps in a multimillion-rand project of this nature,” said Gaoganediwe. Geda would make its project management capacity available should this be required because “we believe in this project. It is much-needed and viable”.

Solfafa said government was seriously concerned. “Since government has pumped out money the land will no longer be leased only to Chiefs but to other teams as well if there is a need. Government has total control of the venue. We are putting Lefika to the test and if they don’t come to the party we will look for other potential investors and put the stadium construction on tender again.”

Chris Gribb, CEO of Lefika, denied that the delays were caused by finances. “I don’t know where you get that from. The delays were caused by the environmental impact assessment (EIA) and the heritage impact assessment (HIA), but things are coming right and construction should start very soon,” he said.

“I just don’t understand why it took so long for our application to be approved but everything is under control and we are meeting with our funding partners, whom I cannot mention.”

But Solfafa dismissed Gribb’s comments. “There is no way government can delay a process to approve an application for someone to build a shop if they have followed the right procedures, done the EIA and the HIA. Those are just minor issues which you need to comply with. These guys [Lefika] don’t have money.”

anymore sad news here? looks dead as a dodo...

Well typical: they use a crony BEE outfit that has no experience as a sponsor of a major project and we are suprised when nothing happens.

Im sick of the words BEE and ANC. it is the other words for incompetence and coruption. fuck them all! sorry, had to get it out.

Im sick of the wordr BEE and ANC. it is the other words for incompetence and coruption. fuck them all! sorry, had to get it out.

Angh: couldnt agree more!!

Im sick of the words BEE and ANC. it is the other words for incompetence and coruption. fuck them all! sorry, had to get it out.

Do the talking in the ballot box when election time comes. The ANC will never get 2/3 majority. COPE, DA, ID, UDM etc will make sure that the ANC will never get that majority. Eastern and Western Cape will be out of ANC's after elections. I support BEE and AA but the problem is how it's being done as it doesn't benefit the poor of the poor. They will also have hard time in Northern Cape and COPE will give it a run for its money when coming to the middles calls. They stubborn and have said that they will rule till Jesus comes and that tells how arrogant they are.

by the that looks like pretoria junction/rainbow or what ever the stadium was called

CHIEFS’ STADIUM: ANNOUNCEMENT SOON

Posted: 2009-08-18 10:45

Kaizer Chiefs’ plans for their new stadium in Krugersdorp have not been canned and instead the club will make an announcement on the construction of the venue within the next three weeks, club chairman Kaizer Motaung has told KickOff.com.

Chiefs had announced plans for the Amakhosi Stadium in Krugersdorp as far back as six years ago but its construction will not get underway until all the other building work around the 2010 World Cup preparations are out of the way.

Plan to renovate the existing Bob van Reenen stadium in the Mogale City municipality were announced in 2003. It came after a joint agreement between the club, the municipality, the provincial administration and Lefika, a property development company.

Bobby Motaung, Chiefs’ football manager and the chairman’s son, is an executive director of Lefika, which has been linked with several controversies around the construction of the World Cup stadium in Nelspruit.

The stadium is planned to have a capacity of 55 000 and suites are already for sale on Lefika’s website.

But to date no work has begun because the financing had not been raised. The cost was initially estimated at R1,2-billion but has undoubtedly risen since then.

Motaung insisted the stadium was going to be built and said a major announcement would be made soon.


Mzansi Football and KickOff.com

Why do Chiefs insist on building a new stadium when they could just use one of the 2010 stadiums, it's a waste of money.

Why do Chiefs insist on building a new stadium when they could just use one of the 2010 stadiums, it's a waste of money.

I have said that over and over again...Kaizer must think better.

Arrogance might be an issue here since there was alot of friction about home-grounds been move all over there show, i guess Motaung wants a sense of ownership.

No this is good news!! The south african football league is whack..Cuz the teams all play at different stadiums, each team should have it's own unique stadium..And this stadium is very unique to the cheifs.

i would rather spend that money on development.

i would rather spend that money on development.

i agree with you 100%...judging from their recent results, they can put all that money to good use

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Amazing project.

looks alot like the sapporo dome

looks alot like the sapporo dome

thought something looked familiar but also looks like the rainbow junction"never built" in pretoria

I would realy like to find out if anyone knows anything about what is happening with the Kaizer Chiefs Stadium. They demolished the old one, but none of the mess from this has been removed. Seems like the local community got shafted.

bump for lydon's blind eyes

Back to the original and better thread..There are so many stadiums in Johnnesburg..They could probably host the WC by themselves.lol..Somebody get some pics of the current site so we know what were dealing wit..

such a small province gauteng is...alot of infastructures lol...u right jamaica...they could host the world cup by themselves

I thought it was settled they are moving into Orlando stadium?

I thought it was settled they are moving into Orlando stadium?

The deal is only for 3 years, but judging from their results at Orlando it may just be cut short. :)

Cool then it paves way for Pirates to take homage at that stadium!

Yeah Pirates announced yesterday that they'll be using Orlando for their next two home games. IMO Chiefs should just use Soccer city. I know it's big but no one is using it anyway. Would have been nice to see Chiefs and Pirates sharing Soccer city but that will never happen, what with so many stadia in Joburg.

Saw a new road-side board from the Joburg Property Co. advertising this development out Krugersdorp way yesterday (along Hendrik Potgieter in Ruimsig). Said: Coming Soon!

Also heard that the JPC awarded the tenders in August and that we should start seeing some action here fairly soon.

was this not supposed to be privately funded?????

So is this stadium a go or not? Im confused....

Yeah Pirates announced yesterday that they'll be using Orlando for their next two home games. IMO Chiefs should just use Soccer city. I know it's big but no one is using it anyway. Would have been nice to see Chiefs and Pirates sharing Soccer city but that will never happen, what with so many stadia in Joburg.

Nah, soccer city should be reserved for Soweto derbies, Cup finals and international games.