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Trevor Nelson in South Africa

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30/05/2010

BBC Radio 5 Live - Trevor Nelson in South Africa

Trevor Nelson explores South Africa's passionate relationship with the beautiful game.

Trevor Nelson explores South Africa's passionate relationship with the beautiful game and confronts his own reservations about a country with a history of apartheid.

As Africa prepares to stage its first World Cup, Trevor Nelson travels to South Africa to explore the nation's passionate relationship with the beautiful game and to confront his own reservations about a country with a history of apartheid.

We hear from the fans in South Africa as they prepare to welcome the world's best footballers but also from those concerned with the money. Should a country that has the greatest gap between its rich and poor really be spending £3.5 billion on a football tournament?

Trevor visits Ajax Cape Town and hears how the club that produced Everton's Steven Pienaar is ensuring football's legacy in South Africa.

He also speaks to one of South Africa's greatest rugby players, Morne Du Plessis, who managed South Africa's '95 Rugby win over the All Blacks but is now charged with ensuring Cape Town's spectacular £400 million stadium benefits the country after the 2010 football roadshow has left.

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