The 2010 FIFA World Cup Organising Committee South Africa (OC) wishes to thank the unions representing the construction workers and their employers for reaching an agreement to end the strike affecting the building of the stadiums to be used during the FIFA World Cup next year. We are happy that an agreement has been reached between the unions representing the workers -- National Union of Mineworkers and the Building Construction and Allied Workers Union, and the employers --- the SA Federation of Engineering Constructors. The agreement gives practical meaning to their commitment to infrastructural development in South Africa, a key to future economic prosperity and stability in our country.

Their long hours of negotiations also demonstrated their patriotism and love of the country. Let the construction restart in earnest.