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When you keep a 2010 World Cup letter of gratitude for 10 Years…

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Whilst doing a clean out at home I can across this letter from the then Executive Director of the NMB Directorate FIFA World Cup 2010 South Africa, dated August 2011 and reading as follows:

Dear Alan

Gratitude for contribution to the success of the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa in Nelson Mandela Bay

It hardly seems like a year has passed since the World Cup, but already so much has happened, it fells like it happened 10 years ago.

Thankfully we still have the legacies that stand as a testament to the many achievements of the World Cup. We have appropriated our beautiful stadium into our cityscape. We have a host of memories of the guts and glory of the World Cup. We made worldwide connections and made a phenomenal impression on the world; and we embraced a nation-building unseen since the IRB Rugby World Cup in a995. The World Cup in South Africa showed us that if we put our minds to it, we can achieve greatness in our country.

However, none of this would have been possible without the massive support of the media. I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the long hours you put in to communicating the World Cup successes and stories locally, nationally and internationally.

I hope that this book will be a keepsake that will help you retain the memories of the World Cup and that one day you might show it to future generations and say; “I was there, a part of history.”

May you feel it forever.

Kind Regards

Errol Heynes
Executive Director
NMB Directorate FIFA World Cup 2010 SA.

2010 Thank You
Alan Straton (MyPE) 2010 FIFA World Cup Thank You Letter
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Alan Straton

Chief Cook, Bottle Washer and Broom Mechanic at MyPE
Passionate about Port Elizabeth and definitely NOT packing for Perth. Alan's ethos is epitomised in the words of Nelson Mandela; "I have fought against white domination and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the idea of a democratic and free society. If need be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die." See more articles by Alan.