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Posted by Soccer Cinema on Wednesday, April 14, 2010,
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Two funerals and one song
The killing of SACP Secretary General Chris Hani on 10 April 1993 was one of the most tragic events in recent South African history, robbing us of one of our greatest leaders, threatening to tear South Africa apart.
At his funeral, the late Peter Mokaba, then ANC Youth League president sang a song that has been making headlines in recent weeks: Kill the Boer, Kill the farmer. The tune, picked up 17 years later, by another ANC Youth League president, Julius Malema, has...
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The education centre and our email printed out on the wall.
There is happiness in Peddie and it gushes from
Nokubonga. She does not um or ar when she speaks - she chuckles and
giggles. Spending a few hours with her to organise the screening was
blessed. And, we were stoked to see the Soccer Cinema email printed out
on the notice board!
 
When the ball appears everyone wants to play - smart, young and old. Nokubonga with her friends Sibusisu & Weli.
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Posted by Soccer Cinema on Tuesday, April 6, 2010,
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Knysna, host city for Denmark & France is a lively, lovely, pretty town, ready and excited about the World Cup. Thanks to Thomas Paremoer and Brian Blaauw from the Municipality, Soccer Cinema will be hosting two screenings, one in the rural outskirts of Rheenendal and another one at Joodeskamp’s LoveLife Centre. Buying cool drink at the spaza shop, I am once again called "mlungu"by small smiling kids trailing me. "Igamalam nguNathalie", I try, irritated and frustrated... ... Continue reading ...
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Cradock seemed further than two hours from Grahamstown. The R350, a bit of a dribble through pothole at times, winds north, past the quaint town of Bedford and paparazzi-shy monkeys, through canyons and across the Great Fish River. We have been blessed to have Nyameka Goniwe's support to introduce Soccer Cinema to Lingelihle. Through her, we met primary school teacher Sandile Sepeni and soccer coach Mxolisi Ndatya, both biiiig soccer fans, at the Lingelihle Stadium. The annual Easter Tourna...
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Organising J'Bay and Humansdorp had a nice touch of small town idiosyncrasies. We met Timothy Meleni at the community hall in J'bay, our screening will be held at the Pellsrus Community Hall, minutes away from South Africa's surfer mecca and it's popular beaches. Timothy Meleni, soccer skills.
It is Good Friday, the hall is buzzing and brimming thick into a church service. Kids play outside, a few female congregants with flowing dresses and big hats, Southern Belles, wear vertiginous high ...
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En route to Wilderness, we do a U-Turn to buy firewood from an old man, chopping down alien bush along the N2. A neatly chopped and stacked bundle, perfect to start a cozy fire... costs us R5. Five rand! no ways... this is just... a minimum wage in Wilderness. Continue reading ...
Posted by Soccer Cinema on Wednesday, March 31, 2010,
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Posted by Soccer Cinema on Wednesday, March 31, 2010,
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We like The Western Nostril, enjoy more here.  
Posted by Soccer Cinema on Tuesday, March 30, 2010,
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We have spent two nights in Ladismith! getting stuck into the to-do list between Cape Town and next week's towns - taking us up to about Grahamstown. Kind of stuck here because our local contact could not re-arrange meeting days. Don't worry, the place got turned abit upside down with maps, laptops and home cooked dinners etc... Continue reading ...
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Once in Ashton, we start writing up the
game plan/planning doc for the Screening Team and itching, just a tad,
with jealousy: 'In Zolani, it will work really well to setup sound and
blast some music an hour before the screening starts. The houses are
right on top of the community hall so the sounds will just round up a
crowd. At the same time, drive the van around and blow the buffalo so
they know what's happening'.
We suspect that here in Zolani, a
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Posted by Soccer Cinema on Tuesday, March 30, 2010,
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Worcester.
Montagu. Ashton. Robertson... these areas are beautiful, strung along
the legendary R62, the world's longest wine route. There is this
mountain back drop and calm presence, brushed in hues of blue and shades
of lavender around dusk.
De Doorns still on our minds, we head to quaint Montagu and
hop into the warm waters of the hot springs, under the sparkling Karoo
sky.  The view down the road in De Doorns
Posted by Soccer Cinema on Tuesday, March 30, 2010,
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Soccer Cinema's
Planning Team left Cape Town, after a 6 star breakfast banquet, with a
lot of stuff, including a surfboard, 2 cooler boxes, 3 soccer balls and
the sounds of vuvuzelas, with friends and colleagues waving goodbye.
After
a slow drive up the N1 and a few down pours, we reached our first
destination: Worcester. Distance from Cape Town: 120km Population:
around 75 000 Famous residents: JM Coetzee lived in Worcester as a boy
(souvenirs feature in "Boyhood") & so did the musici... Continue reading ...
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