It is situated 2.5km from Mthethomusha Game Reserve -also referred to as the SouthWestern corner of Kruger National Park; which is roughly 25 kilometres east of Mbombela, in the Mpumalanga province.

After being upgraded, it however became the new official home venue of both Mbombela United and Thabo All Stars, in June 2010.

A primary driving force for the upgrade, was that the local municipality was asked to prepare a high quality training venue -with FIFA standard-, ahead of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

[1] The stadium was subsequently used as training field by one of the qualified World Cup teams in June 2010, and it also hosted a friendly 2-0 match between Chile and New Zealand, few days ahead of the World Cup.

[5] The second phase of the upgrade project, for the stadium to comply with FIFA standards for World Cup training venues, was reported in the end to have costed an extra R21 million.