In North West, where six first-round games will be played, the sports MEC is worried about poor ticket sales.
His counterpart in Gauteng is concerned that fans who applied for tickets last year have still not received them with only five days to go to the big kick-off.
"We are still concerned about ticket sales," said North West sports MEC Tebogo Modise. "We expected tickets to sell like hot cakes."
Gauteng sports MEC Lebogang Maile said people who had applied for tickets last year had not yet received them.
"They were told they will either be phoned or receive text messages to come and collect them."
He blamed the local organising committee for keeping fans "in the dark".
Local organising committee spokesman Sipho Sithole said fans waiting for tickets should go to where they applied for them.
"It's not possible to be calling all the 500000 people [who applied for tickets]," said Sithole.
Modise was surprised by the apathy of soccer fans in North West. He said he had expected a better response, especially with world stars such as Didier Drogba, Yaya Toure and Emmanuel Adebayor to play in Rustenburg. The Royal Bafokeng will host Ivory Coast, Togo, Tunisia, Algeria, Ethiopia and Nigeria.
"We are talking about celebrated players," said Modise.
He said the government would now start a "massive campaign" to "mobilise people" to support the tournament.
"There are to be meetings with mining houses in North West urging them to support the Afcon finals by buying tickets for their staff."
Maile blamed the local organising committee for Afcon's poor promotion.
"The committee must assist all those people [who applied] to get their tickets as a matter of urgency," said Maile.
Maile said he was disappointed that there was no visible marketing of Afcon less than a week before kick-off.
Mvuso Mbebe, CEO of the local organising committee, said: "This tournament is not about an individual but for South Africa.
"He can be as emotional as he wants but the fact is that it [the Gauteng government] has done nothing," Mbebe said.
"We expect a big demand [for tickets] in the next two to four days."
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