Forgotten football legends who defied apartheid
The book " The Unsung Legends of Wentworth Football", by Lorraine Richards, was recently launched at the Durban International Book Fair in uMlanga.
It delves into the forgotten footballing stories of players who had “magic in their boots” but were denied their rightful place in South Africa’s football history.
They flourished despite apartheid’s restrictions in the 1970s and 1980s, when Durban’s non-racial football movement used sport as a powerful instrument of resistance.
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