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On the 50th anniversary of the Soweto Uprising, Sazi Bongwe looks again at an iconic photograph from the protests – an image of oppression and resistance that still painfully resonates in South Africa
Equator World Cup 2026 reading:
@mohamhawish.bsky.social on the endurance of Palestinian football
www.equator.org/articles/wor...
www.equator.org/articles/fir...
Salaam Peace Abdullah! It's still happening at Mannenberg
www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
And Juan VIlloro on the woes of El Tri
www.equator.org/articles/no-...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyFh...
outstanding essay on the current state of Mexico, soccer, and corruption
h/t: @equatormag.bsky.social
written in 1951, just as urgent 75 years later... www.equator.org/articles/tho...
"Rarely has a World Cup featured so much talent. But in order to survive, the sport must develop antibodies against the political forces threatening to destroy it. The dangers that stalk the game are not found on the field, but in the executive boxes."
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"The international press argued, with some justification, that playing at 7,200 feet under the midday sun would be an updated form of the human sacrifice practised by the Aztecs. The project seemed to be designed for heroes accustomed to surviving on little oxygen"
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Palestine’s pitches are in ruins, but the game lives on
In 1960 the writer Bessie Head—yet to publish the novels that would make her a leading figure in South African and Batswana literature—interviewed a young
