Home Good Bites South Africa Lifts GDP With World Cup Investments Good Bites South Africa Lifts GDP With World Cup Investments By Good News Network - Jul 24, 2010 South Africa’s economy is one percent higher than it would have been without the spending and infrastructure development that went into hosting the soccer World Cup, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said on Thursday. (Reuters, July 2010) Leave a Reply Cancel replyYou must be logged in to post a comment.