“In other words, South Africans’ simple desire to enjoy a football match in the context of apartheid’s inhumanity fuelled a quasi-religious obsession for the game that assisted the broader struggle for political and cultural liberation.” – @futbolprof
https://t.co/yy106mI8BQ— Njabulo Ngidi (@NJABULON) August 1, 2020
This week I had the pleasure of speaking with Njabulo Ngidi, Sports Editor at New Frame, about the return of professional soccer in South Africa under COVID-19. “The beautiful game could give the depressed country some reprieve and an escape,” Ngidi says.
Read the full article here.