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Markets suffer a jolt
JOHANNESBURG. July 7 South Africa's financial markets weakened on Thursday following FIFA’s announcement in Zurich that the country had lost the bid to host the World Cup 2006 to Germany, reports AFP
The bonds, rand and equity markets softened markedly after the news, the rand losing more than five cents against the dollar.
The currency was trading at 6.7850 to the dollar shortly before the announcement, but closed at 6.8345 compared on Thursday afternoon to Wednesday's close of 6.7815.
A currency trader said the plunge was the result of market players scrambling to buy back dollars after they heard the news.
"Players sold dollars when they thought South Africa was going to win the bld. and now they are buying them back again."
The Johannesburg Stock Exchange immediately lost ground after the announcement and ended the day 0.71 percent lower.
Construction and tourism, the two sectors billed to benefit the most from the country staging the World Cup, were the hardest hit. the SAPA news agency' reported.
South African Chamber of Business chief executive Kevin Wakeford said South Africa would have benefited from some 16 billion rand (2.3 billion dollars) in foreign investment associated with the event, if it had won the bid.
He said a further 14 billion rand would have been generated through domestic investments, and hosting the cup would have boosted the country’s gross domestic product by about two percent.
It could also have created some 130.000 jobs in a country where unemployment stands at about 30 percent.
"There is no doubt that it would have provided the South African economy with a much-needed shot in the arm." he said.
However, Wakeford added that all was not gloom for the country, as being the runner-up to host the 2006 soccer World Cup would lift South Africa’s Erofile In the international usiness community’.
"Not all is lost, we are now equipped for future sporting events ... We must not see this as a final curtain call for the business of sport in South .Africa.
But the Louis Group's chief executive and property economist Alan Louis said South Africa had desperately-needed to win the 2006 bid to give the stuttering economy the impetus it needed.
There were investors standing in the wings waiting to make positive decisions had we won the bid." he said.
"Now we are going to have to bite the bullet and wait another four years. Germany didn’t need the bid economically’ speaking. Africa did -- desperately."