The mascot, a green-haired leopard called Zakumi
Igor X on Wednesday, July 07 2010 Monday night the official 2010 World Cup mascot was unveiled during a live broadcast of SABC 1’s Coca Cola Soccerzone. The mascot, a green-haired leopard called Zakumi, gets its name from a combination of South Africa’s country code ‘ZA’ and ‘kumi’, meaning ‘ten’ in several African languages.
