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Soccer ball brightens tower

The Hillbrow Tower ball follows the completion in September 2009 of a record-breaking constructed football atop another Telkom tower, the Lukasrand Tower in Pretoria, which was officially recognised as a Guinness World Record in the category of 'largest football sculpture'.

The Hillbrow Tower ball was completed much faster, because the panels were produced and moulded while the Lukasrand ball was being constructed, and the same engineering team worked on both projects.
The shell of the Hillbrow ball consists of 150 separate pieces that required meticulous construction, Telkom said. It took more than 24 hours for a single product to fully harden in a mould and a further seven days of curing before the moulds could be fixed to the wooden panels.

“Weather-wise, the elements have been more favourable to the construction of the Hillbrow ball, which was completely assembled at the foot of the tower, before it was hoisted to the top,” the company said in a statement.

“Telkom is confident that this initiative will engender and sustain public excitement ahead of the world’s largest football showpiece to be hosted in South Africa next year,” said Telkom programme director for the 2010 FIFA World Cup Thami Magazi.
“With the final draw for 2010 being completed recently, the towering feature over Johannesburg is a fitting spectacle with which to mark this occasion.”