Project Hero, sponsored by Canon, is a visual documentary of five rugby players in South Africa whose lives were changed by serious injuries.
On May 20, 1990, 18-year-old Amos Mzimeli walked 5km on the winding rural road from his home village of Soto with his rugby team to the local Mooiplaas rugby field. The turf was, and still is, horribly uneven, yet this highly anticipated inter-village game drew a large crowd. Amos was playing flank for the Moonlight Rugby Club, which was a position he had held for three years.
On that day a tackle resulted in his head being trapped between the opposition players’ legs and a spinal cord injury immediately changed the direction his life would take.Koben has returned to Hoërskool Louis Trichardt and is working extremely hard to regain as much functional mobility as possible. His close-knit community, the Players’ Fund and his family have never left his side and continue to encourage him on his journey.At 17, Charles Oppelt was bursting with energy and enthusiasm.
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