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Fri 12 Dec 2009Fifa honours football league set up in apartheid-era prison
FORMER INMATES of South Africa’s famous Robben Island prison who established a football league as a way to survive incarceration were honoured by Fifa yesterday, when it officially recognised their association.
International football’s governing body ratified the league’s constitution during a Fifa executive committee meeting on the island prison in Cape Town, where Nelson Mandela and many African National Congress (ANC) leaders spent decades doing hard labour.
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