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For stories relating to Everton legacy in World Cup South Africa 2010:
Playing football in Kliptown
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/fivelivebreakfast/2010/06/playing_football_in_kliptown.html
Carmel O'Grady - BBC Producer Radio 5Live
I'm one of the producers working in South Africa on World Cup Breakfast with Nicky Campbell. While he's off in Cape Town and Port Elizabeth I'm here in Johannesburg setting up guests, gathering audio and working with the radio sport team. We're all based in the deeply unglamorous International Broadcast Centre, which is basically a warehouse where radio and TV people from all over the world have set up shop.
On Friday I escaped from the other journalists (hooray) and went to join some colleagues from the World Service. They'd arranged to play a football match against a Sowetan team at the Eldorado Park stadium in Kliptown. Kliptown is the oldest, and one of the most impoverished, residential suburbs of Soweto.
It is, as with so many of the places in South Africa, a place of huge contrast. One road we drove down was lined with huts made from corrugated metal alongside shells of old concrete buildings being used as makeshift shops.
We had to drive very carefully because there were children everywhere darting out into the roads in front of us. These makeshift homes were just paces from the most well known part of town: the grand open space of Walter Sisulu Square. Kliptown became famous in 1955 when a coalition of anti-apartheid organisations met and drew up a draft Freedom Charter. The document included contributions from around the country.
The final draft was read out to delegates during a two-day meeting in the square. In 1997, in recognition of its place in history, the square was declared a national monument and redeveloped. The new square is clean and modern in design, the complete opposite of the bustle of the shops and huts close by.
Its most notable feature is the Freedom Charter Monument. It's a conical tower that the architect designed to reflect both traditional African fishing baskets and the towers in the Great Zimbabwe ruins.
A short drive away from the Square is Eldorado park stadium: it's a run-down pitch with one open metal stand and minimal facilities. With the sun shining, we arrived at about two in the afternoon with a car boot full of footballs and BBC t-shirts.
We also had two boxes of Everton tops and about 100 signed photographs of Steven Pienaar brought over to South Africa by the Everton manager David Moyes. You can probably guess what the children went for first...
Within minutes, many of the children who'd turned up to watch the game had pulled on the Everton shirts. Some were cheering on their dads against the BBC team while others started their own kickabout. They seemed to have a lot more skill than most of the players on the pitch and they were still grasping the signed pictures of the South African midfielder.
I taught them to use my camera and they spent the next hour taking pictures of one another and laughing at the results. You can see their some of their handiwork below.
Looks like Christmas has come early this year with the World Cup on.
Well in David Moyes.
For stories relating to Everton legacy in World Cup South Africa 2010:
Playing football in Kliptown
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/fivelivebreakfast/2010/06/playing_football_in_kliptown.html
Carmel O'Grady - BBC Producer Radio 5Live
I'm one of the producers working in South Africa on World Cup Breakfast with Nicky Campbell. While he's off in Cape Town and Port Elizabeth I'm here in Johannesburg setting up guests, gathering audio and working with the radio sport team. We're all based in the deeply unglamorous International Broadcast Centre, which is basically a warehouse where radio and TV people from all over the world have set up shop.
On Friday I escaped from the other journalists (hooray) and went to join some colleagues from the World Service. They'd arranged to play a football match against a Sowetan team at the Eldorado Park stadium in Kliptown. Kliptown is the oldest, and one of the most impoverished, residential suburbs of Soweto.
It is, as with so many of the places in South Africa, a place of huge contrast. One road we drove down was lined with huts made from corrugated metal alongside shells of old concrete buildings being used as makeshift shops.
We had to drive very carefully because there were children everywhere darting out into the roads in front of us. These makeshift homes were just paces from the most well known part of town: the grand open space of Walter Sisulu Square. Kliptown became famous in 1955 when a coalition of anti-apartheid organisations met and drew up a draft Freedom Charter. The document included contributions from around the country.
The final draft was read out to delegates during a two-day meeting in the square. In 1997, in recognition of its place in history, the square was declared a national monument and redeveloped. The new square is clean and modern in design, the complete opposite of the bustle of the shops and huts close by.
Its most notable feature is the Freedom Charter Monument. It's a conical tower that the architect designed to reflect both traditional African fishing baskets and the towers in the Great Zimbabwe ruins.
A short drive away from the Square is Eldorado park stadium: it's a run-down pitch with one open metal stand and minimal facilities. With the sun shining, we arrived at about two in the afternoon with a car boot full of footballs and BBC t-shirts.
We also had two boxes of Everton tops and about 100 signed photographs of Steven Pienaar brought over to South Africa by the Everton manager David Moyes. You can probably guess what the children went for first...
Within minutes, many of the children who'd turned up to watch the game had pulled on the Everton shirts. Some were cheering on their dads against the BBC team while others started their own kickabout. They seemed to have a lot more skill than most of the players on the pitch and they were still grasping the signed pictures of the South African midfielder.
I taught them to use my camera and they spent the next hour taking pictures of one another and laughing at the results. You can see their some of their handiwork below.
Looks like Christmas has come early this year with the World Cup on.
Well in David Moyes.
