Monday, March 22, 2021

OUR RICH HISTORY – THE VETERANS OF THE SA SOCCER FEDERATION MEET AT THE FUNERAL OF NORMAN MIDDLETON IN JULY 2015

 





                                                        



When in July 2015 the giant of non-racial football struggles, Mr Norman Middleton, passed away, scores of the veterans of Federation football gathered at his funeral in Pietermaritzburg in South Africa to say their final farewell.

Mr Middleton served as president of the South African Federation in the 1970s and 1980s at a time when the political struggles in the country had reached boiling point.

Mr Middleton and his fellow officials and the footballers themselves made immense contributions to the struggles for a non-racial and democratic society. They made this sacrifice despite being harassed and intimidated by the former apartheid security police.



I attended the funeral as a journalist who interacted regularly with Mr Middleton during the struggle years. I wanted to pay my tribute along with the veterans.

I captured these photographs of the veterans who attended the funeral.







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