PEDRO MZILENI | OrlandoPirates missed a chance to stay true to their roots .orlandopirates has given a middle finger to the international call by the progressive formations of the football family to boycott its fixture with MaccabiTelAviv
His work reminds us that Orlando Pirates was formed in 1937, a few years after the township of Soweto was established as a residential township for black migrant labourers, who were taken from the rural margins of Southern Africa to service the white apartheid economy in the mines, farms, and factories of Johannesburg.
Across the world, the history of the biggest football clubs is similar to Orlando Pirates. The deeper the connections that a club has with the struggles of its own people, the more footprint it has in the people’s consciousness as their heritage. Arsenal in England was formed in 1886 by 15 workers at the Royal Arsenal munitions factory. A few years earlier, Manchester United was formed in 1878 by workers at the Newton Heath Depot of Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway.
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