Helen Zille, the newly-elected mayor, has complained about the cost of the 68, 000 seat Greenpoint stadium.
Zille's statement has provoked angry responses from national and regional ANC leaders and the World Cup organisers.
Ms Zille hopes that after-school clubs will help keep children out of gangs.
Opposition Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille said President Mbeki had not managed to calm the nerves of the South African nation.
Its leader Helen Zille said it looked as if the South Africans were in CAR to defend the regime of ousted President Francois Bozize.
Ms Zille says she wants the army merely to patrol the streets of the worst areas to let the police get on with their work.
That sentiment is echoed by Helen Zille - the premier of the Western Cape province and head of South Africa's main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance.
Ms Zille, a white former anti-apartheid campaigner and one-time journalist, fought a jovial and energetic campaign, shining a light on the DA's efforts to bring better services to cities such as Cape Town.
The opposition Democratic Alliance (DA), led by Helen Zille, a former Cape Town mayor and now premier of the Western Cape, seemed set to improve sharply on the 15% it won in the last local polls in 2006.
"Negative public communication, aimed at accessing resources or any other purpose, does not help the image of the country nor does it in any case reflect the true state of affairs, " a spokesman for President Thabo Mbeki's cabinet said in response to Zille's statement.
The DA has been through numerous re-branding exercises since its origins in the anti-apartheid movement of the 1970s and 80s, but in the eyes of some people it remains a "white" party, led by a white woman, Helen Zille, and somehow out of touch with the core values of black South Africans.
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