"The World Cup will bring increased demand for development of the stadiums, adequate electricity infrastructure, and waste disposal mechanisms, " Ms Mazibuko points out.
"There's a disconnect between the facilities available to people and the demand for them, " says Ian Goldin, a professor of globalization and development at the University of Oxford in England.
Africa should be a region that has high ambitions for its children and demand that the post-2015 development agenda is one that thinks big for our children and their chances.
The combination of rapid population growth and changing diets may increase the demand for food by 70% by 2050, according to the recently released 4th UN World Water Development Report.
But today, as tourism to the city grows, there is also a greater demand for space, and increasing rents and new development are making it difficult for the artisans to stay.
The new development is creating a demand for banking services and retirement planning in order to serve the middle class.
Like Infosys, Satyam continues to benefit from the worldwide demand for technology and development skills.
The reason for this lies in the volatility that continues to erupt around the pillars of disruption that define the open mobile era: rapid development of mobile Web technology, insatiable consumer demand for mobile Web and data services, and an evolving policy debate that may finally introduce a more equitable market.
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Demand continues to outweigh the number of properties for sales, igniting investments and development land sales.
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It also increases the demand for such things as schooling, and thus helps meet other development goals.
There is significant room for growth for economic development and construction demand in emerging markets given the low starting base in many of these places.
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The development of satellite-based mobile-telephony is creating demand for new bits of the radio spectrum.
Margaret MacLeod, Harris Tweed Hebrides market development director, said there was potential demand for the fabric in North America.
The development of the daily deals market shows the pent-up demand for a marketing vehicle that is even marginally better than the poor choices currently available to local merchants.
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Also with very limited new development and weaker centers flushed out by the recession, the demand for space has increased and that has provided mall owners with enhanced occupancy margins.
Until now, science has lacked a model that takes all these effects into account in the calculations of a coastline's future development, even though a demand for this existed among engineers, coastal managers and planners.
"The company, which was hip-deep in sorting out A380 development, simply hadn't foreseen the huge pent-up demand for a more efficient 250-seat airliner, and tried to take the easy way out by offering a re-engined version of its A330, " aviation journalist David Kaminski-Morrow, air transport editor of Flightglobal.com, told CNN in an earlier report.
But some traders and the North East Chamber of Commerce (NECC) have said there is not enough demand for a development of this size.
Since the manufacture of most products begins with the bending, shaping or machining of metal, the demand for equipment that bends, shapes and machines tells us a great deal about where economic development is headed.
China is in the stage of its economic development where it needs, and wants, to increase domestic demand for its products, and move away from dependence on exports.
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It was an encouraging development for the gold market bulls on Tuesday to see some fresh safe-haven investment demand surface after such had appeared absent the past few weeks.
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Still, this development is good news for consumers, as it should lead to increased demand for the cards, which will hopefully serve as a kick in the pants for the weak link in the CableCARD chain, whoever it is.
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"Frankly, it has nothing to do with supply and demand there -- these are geopolitical situations, " Angel Gurria, head of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, told CNN.
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