The beautiful game exercises the same dreamy grip on the African consciousness as it does across Europe and South America.

It says something about a certain white South African consciousness of siege and frontier that goes beyond not having legs.

Get back to African consciousness. Not to mention, as Gooding and other cast members revealed, very few people knew about this story.

Now the yolk of apartheid has lifted in South Africa, he reiterated the importance of Steve Biko's legacy of African consciousness, of knowing one's self.