World football's governing body FIFA said Tuesday that South Africa's programme of stadium building remained on schedule, despite a recent strike by construction workers in CapeTown.

"So far, things are all right," FIFA spokesman Alain Leiblang told journalists in Cape Town as a FIFA delegation wrapped up a tour of the 2010Wor)d Cup hosts.

"All tilings are on track. I doh't want to say for the future, but for the two cities that we have inspected everything is correct."

Amid a three-day inspection of four of the country's nine tournament host ‘cities, Leiblang said

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No serious shortcomings had been identified, and there was little concern over recent labour disputes between workers and stadium construction companies in CapeTown and Durban.

"This is nothing. J have known much worse." said Leiblang -referring to a general strike in France as it prepared to host the same tournamentin 1998.

"So far, we have a calendar, we have a time schedule, and it is on track."

Leiblang was part of a group of FIFA subject experts in South Africa to examine progress with information technology, telecommunications, stadium building, media and marketing, hospitality and security.

The team visited Johannesburg on Monday, CapeTown onTuesday, and will proceed to Durban and Port Elizabeth on Wednesday.

The visit was partly aimed at ensuring a balance between FIFA’s World Cup needs and the legacy to remain after the world's most popular sporting event is staged on African soil lor the first time ever.

"From time to time we have to say: 'take care, don't go in this direction, diere is no need. Don't do more than we need'," said Leiblang.

Construction of the 68,000-seater Green Point Stadium, due to host one of the 2010 semifinals, was halted for a week last month in a dispute over travel benefits.

And workers at Durban's Moses Mabhida Stadium have threatened todown tools forhigherwages.