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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Asia Pacific World Sandcastle dreams buoyed by World Cup AFP - Sunday, June 13 Send IM Story Print Sandcastle dreams buoyed by World Cup DURBAN, South Africa (AFP) - – Sibusiso uses a twig to inscribe "Moses Mabhida" and three days work comes to an end on his enormous sand castle in the shape of the newly-built World Cup stadium here. World football's showpiece tournament is expected to bring a financial boon to South Africa, not least the men who scratch a living off donations for their "sand art" on Durban's beaches. Sibusiso, a 25-year-old Zulu from a village close to St Lucia, further up the coast from Durban, is pinning his hopes on a temporary lucrative windfall that will help him get out of sheltered accommodation and back into a proper job. Working hand-in-hand with Maurice, a Mozambican he befriended when he moved to Durban in search of construction work, Sibusiso has a spot marked out on the coastal city's beach front. Once out of bounds after dusk for safety reasons but now properly spruced up and patrolled by large amounts of police, the beach front has had somewhat of a renaissance. The city itself will host seven World Cup games, including one semi-final, and has branded itself as the "warmest place to be" where "surf is up 365 days a year" and fans can "take a dip at half-time". For Sibusiso, the choice of sand castle during the June 11-July 11 World Cup was obvious: Durban's Moses Mabhida stadium, even down to the arch that dips dramatically over the middle of the state-of-the-art construction. "It takes us about three days to make the stadium. And on a normal day, we arrive at around 7 in the morning and stay through until 10pm before leaving," Sibusiso, beanie pulled low on his head, told AFP. "By then the streets are pretty deserted. We can't leave before that in case people destroy our sandcastles. "We don't have far to go from the beach. We live in a shelter in downtown." He added: "I had no job, I came to Durban and met Maurice and we had a plan to get some money. "With the 2010 World Cup coming, we thought things would get better as each day passed and we'd be able to earn enough money to eat and move on with our lives. "We decided to make a big stadium sandcastle as well as a BMW and a scene from 'Titanic'." Their income is derived from people passing on the beach front boulevard who stop and look or take a photograph, and then make a donation. "From Monday through Thursday, we might earn 80 rand (10 dollars) a day, going up to 300 rand (39 dollars) on a weekend day," Maurice said. "We're hoping to earn much, much more during the World Cup, maybe 1,000 rand (130 dollars) a day if we're lucky with all the different fans coming through town." But the sand castle makers, whose work includes the Soccer City stadium, leopards eating humans, lions, horses and sharks - among others, have a challenge on their plate from vying attractions. The beach front has an official FIFA Fan Fest site, but there is also everything from impromptu xylophone bands to Bollywood dancers to be-wellied Zulu dancers to beach cricket to circus performers to areas where people can play morabaraba (a traditional African version of Twelve Men's Morris). "It is a little difficult at the moment because people don't tend to walk so close to the pavement edging if there are people performing," admitted Msizi, a sand artist seated in front of his version of the 'Big Five', incorporating a lion, leopard, elephant, buffalo and rhino. "But we remain confident that we'll all do well over the next month." 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