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Alexandra township south africa3/1/2024 ![]() ![]() Crime has reduced and the streets are vibrant throughout the day. The streets of Alex are calmer and safer as the renewal projects built safe places to play. From a young woman whose chance to make the South African women’s national team was derailed when an intruder hit her in the head with a brick, almost killing her, to one of the first pro soccer players in the country who played during apartheid, to a young man trying to use his skills and a scholarship to make it out of Alex to a better life, this documentary will give you a glimpse of how soccer can change a community. In 2000, the country launched the Alexandra Renewal Project, and while it has caused some clashes between opportunistic companies and the residents, it has succeeded in building new safer places to live and play for the community and building the tourism industry to create new jobs.įrom that hope, and despite all the obstacles, the documentary focuses in on 6 people whose lives have forever been impacted by soccer. Still, it hasn’t stopped the people from doing what they can to uplift and bring prosperity to their community. Over 180,000 people live in Alex, 99.4% of them Black, and most are living well below the poverty line. The township that has over 20,000 shacks within its tiny 2 square mile border. ![]() It’s the subject of a 2011 documentary with the same name, which details the lives of 6 residents who show how the game of soccer has changed the dynamics of life within the township for the better.Īlex, or Gomorrah as it’s known by the locals, is one of the poorest urban areas in South Africa. However, while Johannesburg has FNB Stadium, the largest in Africa and the one affectionately known as Soccer City, for the residents of Alexandra, Joburg’s most notorious township, Soccer City is the land on which they reside. Those townships are where the poorest in the city were pushed to live during apartheid, keeping the wealthy in the expensive properties within the limits of South Africa’s biggest city. There are many townships in and around the city of Johannesburg, South Africa. ![]()
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