UNITING RESEARCH LABS ACROSS FABI
Prepared by: Jan Nagel and Waheed Mahomed
Photos: Kai-Anne Clews and Elsie de Meyer
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Barry Christie and Waheed Mahomed blowing their Vuvuzelas (left). The imposing figure of Gilbert Kamgan, volunteer at the soccer world cup
(middle). Christina and Lerato in their yellow soccer shirts (right).
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As the 2010 FIFA Soccer World celebrations spread throughout South Africa, the University of Pretoria was not excluded. FABI was fully in the clutches of World Cup
Fever and had been transformed into a brightly coloured Fan Park.
The normally serene FABI courtyard got spiced up with an assortment of flags, banners and vuvuzelas. The fever spread to all of FABI’s labs where each was turned into
one of the ten hosting stadiums. Each lab’s members were assigned the task of decorating their lab befitting their World Cup Stadium. The result was that every lab was decked out in
flags, soccer balls and of course the World Cup mascot, Zakumi. In fact, FABI took soccer support one step further with the wearing of FABI soccer shirts on Fridays to bolster the World
Cup atmosphere.
But what would a Fan Park be without a place to watch the soccer match? For the duration of the World Cup, games could be watched, projected on a big screen in the FABI
boardroom. With the combination of supporters in soccer shirts, various countries’ flags flying high in the courtyard, decorated corridors and labs and the echo of vuvuzelas from a
cinema/boardroom, FABI ensured that this World Cup would not go unnoticed.
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Zakumi (left) and the 2010 world cup logo (right).
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