Stadium Management South Africa (SMSA) have confirmed the issue of bulk buying tickets for the high-profile fixtures will be curbed.
After the recent issues that flared upon with the Soweto Derby, with concerns over videos surfaces of mass printing of tickets and till slip tickets at outlets to presumably be sold at higher prices, fans, in their numbers expressed concerns about the events.
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Along with bribery, and fans forcing their way into FNB Stadium, over 100,000 spectators managed to find themselves inside the Calabash, when 87,000 tickets were made available for the clash on 1 February.
“It was definitely a discussion with OpenTickets and the club’s involved, and we’re currently working on the number that we’re going to allow an individual to buy,” Grobbelaar confirmed.
“Currently the discussion is limited to ten tickets but it might differ from fixture to fixture – for a derby it might even be five, or two – so the system is flexible to accomodate the prevention of bulk buying.
“You can’t obviously… if there’s ten [dfifevrent] people buying 10 tickets, buying 10 each and 10 in the syndicate, you will still be able to do so [bulk buy] but as an individual, you won’t be able to buy more than the system caps it at.”
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There’s also been calls to identify and bar troublemakers, which naturally arise at all the major events across the country, which Grobbelaar says there’s a new system in place which could bar culprits from entering the venue.
“On identifying people [who cause trouble], we were in discussions with authorities from a venue perscpetive, I alluded to the counting system we have at the turnstiles, it also provides a system to load images and photos of perpetrators at the turnstiles,” he said.
“It will identify that individual with an alarm sounding and you can prevent those people from entering the venue. I know the clubs are considering it, but it’s something the venue had only available now since two weeks ago.”
