Around 500,000 tickets are still available for Africa's first World Cup, with 2.2m having already been sold.
Tickets for all 64 matches are still available - with the final and the Group C clash between England and the United States proving the most popular games.
Many South Africans were unable to apply for tickets under the previous system because they did not have bank accounts or access to the internet.
Nevertheless locals have bought up the most World Cup tickets - snapping up nearly a million, while the United States comes second with 118,945 applications.
Around a quarter of the tickets still available are exclusively reserved for South Africans, for whom a separate category costing US$19 has been created.
The country's football fans rarely pay more than 20 rand (US$3) to watch a local game.
From Thursday morning, tickets will go on sale to the general public in South Africa at supermarkets, banks and eleven special ticketing centres - while those outside the host nation can purchase on Fifa's website from 1600 GMT.
Experts believe the global recession, inflated cost of travelling to and within South Africa as well as safety fears surrounding the host nation have contributed to the low sales.
450,000 fans were originally expected to travel to the 2010 World Cup, although Fifa recently downgraded the figure to 350,000.
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