Zakumi
Zakumi is a leopard, a common animal found in South Africa, with green hair wearing a shirt saying South Africa 2010. Zakumi's green and gold colors represents South African national sports' teams colors. His name comes from "ZA", the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code for South Africa, and "kumi", a word that means "ten" in various African languages.
2010年世界杯吉祥物--豹子扎库米。豹子“扎库米”名字中头两个字母“ZA”是“南非”的缩写;后面的字母“KUMI”在许多非洲语言中的意思都是“10”,意味着南非世界杯举办的年份——同时,这也是大部分顶尖足球运动员身披的球衣号码。
这支小豹子被设定为1994年出生,象征着新南非共和国的成立。在今后,它或许将成为人们熟知的又一个经典世界杯吉祥物。