Top 100 Football Grannies

By Peter Alegi | October 27th, 2009

Keeping football real. Hundreds of older South African women play the game after cleaning houses, cooking meals, or selling food in township streets. 83-year-old Nora Makhubela, a survivor of eight strokes, told Reuters: “I pray every day to God to keep me alive until 2010. I would really love to watch the games,” she said.  Vakhegula Vakhegula (”grannies” in the local language) might even teach Bafana Bafana a thing or two.

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