One of the most remarkable stories in the history of modern sport - how political prisoners on Robben Island organised and ran a three-division football league during their long incarceration - will soon be told on film.
Chief executive of Videovision Entertainment Anant Singh has announced the production of a feature length docu-drama, More Than Just A Game, which tells the dramatic and little-known story of organised soccer played among prisoners on the island which housed, among others, such political luminaries as former president Nelson Mandela, Govan Mbeki and Walter Sisulu.
More Than Just A Game began with the chance discovery of a long-forgotten archive at the Mayibuye Centre at the University of the Western Cape. On a dusty collection of old cardboard boxes containing thousands of handwritten documents someone had scribbled the intriguing words, "Robben Island - Sports". American sports historian Prof Chuck Korr immediately realised that he'd stumbled upon one of the most remarkable stories in the history of modern sport.
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Singh said: "We are delighted to bring More Than Just A Game to the big screen. This is the first feature documentary to be produced by Videovision Entertainment and we expect the film to be embraced by audiences in South Africa and around the world."
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This article was originally published on page 3 of Daily News on November 16, 2006
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