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The Wedding

Africa Is a Country Podcast
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The Wedding

By
Sean Jacobs

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Driving in Soweto, film maker Dumisani Phakathi reflects on next month’s World Cup:

[The World Cup] is like a wedding … You organize the wedding between you and your partner. The event is amazing, the photographs get taken. Everybody remembers the day. But the trick is about what happens after. What do you carry with from that day of the wedding into your life with your partner? Because if you don’t, that was just for show, the wedding just a spectacle. We can’t afford for this World Cup to be a spectacle.

Phakathi also talks about the connections between the 1970s American professional soccer league and professional football in South Africa:

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Via ThisIsAmericanSoccer (h/t Chimurenga.co.za)

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