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Quinton Fortune played seven seasons with Manchester United and 46 times for South Africa. On September 23, he wrote an excellent piece in The Guardian about a topic dear to me and to many readers of this blog: the impact of the 2010 World Cup on the growth and development of South African football.
Given the billions of rands spent on new and revamped stadiums and transport infrastructure, Fortune asks, was hosting the tournament a boon for the local game? “Judging by the poor attendances at top-flight games not involving the country’s two most popular clubs, Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates, who are also by far the most powerful in financial terms, and the poor performances of the national team Bafana Bafana, the answer unfortunately has to be a resounding ‘no’,” Fortune writes.
His concerns are numerous, important, and inter-related. The World Cup, Fortune asserts, did nothing to alter the Chiefs-Pirates duopoly, which continues to capture the lion’s share of the attention from fans, media, and sponsorship money. He points out that the quality of play in the Premier Soccer League is not terribly good, as evidenced by last year’s top scorer, Bernard Parker, boasting a meager 10 goals.
Fortune then notes how the swanky World Cup
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In Memoriam 2024
Chabani Manganyi (1960-2024)
Distinguished academic, scholar, intellectual activist, psychologist, and public servant Professor Noel Chabani Manganyi (DLitt 2008)died on 31 October 2024.
He was born in the district of Louis Trichardt and after his schooling, studied at the University of South Africa where he completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1962 and received an honours degree in psychology in 1964, a master’s in 1968 and a doctorate in 1970 with a thesis titled “Body Image in Paraplegia”. As part of his doctoral requirements, he held an internship in clinical psychology at Baragwanath Hospital and was appointed as a clinical psychologist, a post he occupied for three years until he left to take up a post-doctoral fellowship at Yale from 1973 until 1975.
Prof Manganyi published a series of monographs – the first was Being Black in the World (Spro-cas/Ravan1973, WUP 2019), the last Looking Through the Keyhole (Raven Press 1981). In these works, he examined the effects of institutionalised racism on the internal worlds and external realities of South Africans – including alienation, distorted relations with the body and quest for freedom. He was one of the few, who before the Truth and Recon
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Guest Post shy Khaya Sibeko (@KhayaSibeko1)
JOHANNESBURG—On October 30, 2013, Leepile Taunyane, Southmost Africa’s literate football chief, died smash into the visualize of 85. It would not hair an overstatement to calculate his vanishing to picture burning forget about a steady archive.
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