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...young black South African from the sunshine of newly liberated Soweto, such as MacBeth Sibaya or Japhet Zwane, it can't be much fun emigrating to the icy wastes of Russia's rundown industrial cities brimming with angry, racist skinheads. But there's more than money to compensate: the Russian and Ukrainian teams play in the pan-European tournaments, offering their imports a platform on which to impress the scouts of clubs in Italy, Spain and Britain, who'll offer a better wage and more benign living conditions. Today's estimates are that around 1,000 African players earn their...
...promise you that if it had happened in front of foreign cameras, the world would have been shaken." JAPHET M'BALISSAGA, witness to a massacre in Bunia, Congo...
...That medical theme is not surprising, since the idea for the show came from two young white South African doctors, Garth Japhet and Shereen Usdin, who had studied and worked in township hospitals and clinics, including in Alexandra. They envisioned a dramatic program that would highlight the social and health problems - particularly HIV-AIDS - in the townships. They convinced a long list of donors - which today include the European Union, Britain's Department for International Development, unicef, British Petroleum, the mobile-phone network MTN and the South African government's Department of Health - to put up the money, and 'Soul...
...featured in every installment of the show. Other topics include violence against women, drunkenness, rape, child abuse, sexual conduct, occupational health, disability, setting up a business, even buying and selling a used car. "This is not just about reality in life, it's about real-life skills," says Japhet, who is executive director of the nongovernmental Institute for Health and Development Communications, which produces the show. 'Soul City' also has a radio version broadcast daily in nine of South Africa's 11 official languages, as well as weekly newspaper columns and a series of educational booklets...
...several of South Africa's official languages, and the series is subtitled in English. It has been shown in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Nigeria, Namibia, Malawi and Barbados and has been dubbed into French and Portuguese for showing in Ivory Coast, Mozambique and other countries. "This concept has got legs," says Japhet. "It moves...