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INSPIRATIONAL STORY: From a Gqeberha bus stop to Spike Lee’s desk, a friendship becomes acclaimed film

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INSPIRATIONAL STORY: From a Gqeberha bus stop to Spike Lee’s desk, a friendship becomes acclaimed film

Two boys bonded over football at a bus stop in Bluewater Bay in the 1990s, building a friendship across apartheid’s racial divide. Three decades later, their friendship has inspired APART, an animated short film attracting international…

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