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World Service,5 mins

50 Years On: Football on Robben Island

Not by the Playbook

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1966 was the year the 'Macana football association' was created by the prisoners of Robben Island who found themselves locked up in apartheid South Africa. Sportshour's Simon Parker has been to the island to learn more about the importance of football to those imprisoned, in the company of one of it's former inmates, Dumisani Mwandhla.. Photo - Getty Images

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