More than vuvuzelas? Towards an understanding of soccer fandom in JohannesburgFootnote

† This paper acknowledges the artificial and ambiguous nature of apartheid racial categorization but employs the racial terminology commonly used by the respondents: black, white, coloured, and Indian.

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