Photos by Nikki Rixon/Twenty Ten and audio by Andrew Kabuura/Twenty Ten
Associated features: Township Guest House (Photo feature), Township Hospitality (Audio feature) and Township Rentals (Multimedia feature)
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
South Africans nationwide have been asking how the %27common man%27 will profit from the international FIFA World Cup tournament which...
Simone Scholtz/Twenty Ten
Associated features: Unis par le football (French text feature), United by Soccer (English translation), Soccer Africanised (English text)
Location: Soweto, South Africa
There has been much talk of unity as the 2010 FIFA World Cup has kicked off in South Africa. After such a long history of division,...
Jose Njagi/Twenty Ten
Associated features: Alexandra Guesthouse (Multimedia feature), Township Guest House (Photo feature) and Township Hospitality (Audio feature)
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
Township residents rent their houses to tourists.
Residents of some of South Africa’s most impoverished townships, Soweto and Alexandra, could put many to shame with their hospitality. By opening...
Simone Scholtz/TwentyTen
Location: Ventersdorp, South Africa
Following the murder of former leader of the AWB, Eugene Terre%27Blanche, on April 3, 2010, the town of Ventersdorp has been the epicentre of a debate about the presence of racial hatred in South Africa.
Allegedly killed by two of his farm workers, Terre’Blanche’s fate highlights...
Andrew Esiebo/Twenty Ten
Associated features: Sex Workers (Photo feature) and Football et prostitution (French text feature)
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa and Lusaka, Zambia
Barbara is one of thousands of women who are hoping to make their fortune at the FIFA World Cup tournament in South Africa. She works in the world’s...
Shravan Vidyarthi/TwentyTen
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
After spending four years in prison for armed robbery, Kuria Eddie Wamuiya emerged a changed man. Determined to make something of himself, he joined the Jericho All Stars, a football league team and community-based organisation for youths in the Jericho Estate in Nairobi.
It was there that...
Shabba Kgotlaetsho/TwentyTen
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
Working for one of South Africa’s top national newspapers when the country is preparing to host the FIFA World Cup tournament is a chance of a lifetime for photojournalist, Dudzile Zitha.
The time of preparation for the soccer showcase has presented photographers with many opportunities. Whether...
Isaac Kpelle/Twenty Ten
Associated features: The Red Stars, South Africa (Photo feature), Football college, Nigeria (Photo feature), Ghana%27s future stars (Photo feature), A Dreaming Drogba, Liberia (Photo feature), Surviving Dreams, Nigeria (Photo feature), Hogsback Lion Cubs (Photo feature), A coach with vision, Zambia (Multimedia feature)
Location: Accra, Ghana
As goalkeeper for his...
A portrait of a lesbian soccer team
Location: Paarl, South Africa.
Simone Scholtz/Twenty Ten
In 2007 Banyana-Banyana midfielder, Eudy Simelane, was gang raped and stabbed to death because she was a lesbian. This is an unfortunate example of how, in a traditionally patriarchal African society, violence against lesbians is a reality for...
Oupa Nkosi/Twenty Ten
Location: Soweto, South Africa
When Kaizer Motaung left Soweto’s oldest football club, Orlando Pirates, in 1970 to form his own club, fans were divided and a long tale of rivalry began.
The Kaizer Chiefs grew from strength to strength, soon becoming Orlando Pirates’ greatest adversary. Growing up in Soweto,...
Sleeping in the shadow of a stadium
Associated feature: Victims of the Beautiful Game (Photo feature)
Samantha Reinders/Twenty Ten
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
When the first soccer game kicks off at the Green Point Stadium in Cape Town, R4.5 billion will already have been spent on its construction. Environmental concerns, noise pollution...
Shravan Vidyarthi/ Twenty Ten
Associated features: The Red Stars, South Africa (Photo feature), Football college, Nigeria (Photo feature), Ghana%27s future stars (Photo feature), A Dreaming Drogba, Liberia (Photo feature), Surviving Dreams, Nigeria (Photo feature), Hogsback Lion Cubs (Photo feature), Ghana Legend (Multimedia feature)
Location: Lusaka, Zambia
It is difficult to...
Felix Masi/Twenty Ten
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
South African vendors and entrepreneurs welcomed the announcement that the FIFA World Cup would be hosted by their home country. Many saw it as a chance to capitalise on the influx of tourists to the region, and an opportunity to improve their standard of...
Leonie Marinovich/Twenty Ten
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
Simon "Bull" Lehoko is one of the giants of South African soccer and his career spanned 30 years and included playing for Kaizer Chiefs, as well as coaching and managing Vaal Professionals. In this piece he describes how soccer united black and white during...
Simone Scholtz/Twenty Ten
Location: Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Pulsating music, laughter, dancing and drinking – these are some of the defining features of a Soweto street bash. Local young people gather in pubs, which naturally overflow into the surrounding streets, and party the night away in South Africa’s largest township.
...
Location: Soweto, South Africa
by Samantha Reinders
South Africa is littered with dusty, well-used soccer pitches: on the sides of roads, in vacant lots, and, in the case of this piece - directly in between two suburbs of SOWETO, South Africa%27s largest township. This specific pitch has an electricity pole right...
Isaac Kpelle/Twenty Ten
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
South Africa’s official tourism promotion agency has set out to capture the nation’s spirit in a dance, the Diski Dance. Diski is common in South African slang for the game of football, and is a uniform routine that showcases the nation%27s passion for the...
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