Sports

Thokozani Football Club (TFC)


tfc logo by ellen eisenman

About TFC

Thokozani Football Club (TFC) was formed by Zanele Muholi in her hometown, Umlazi, Durban in December 2008 out of necessity to increase women's participation in sport, especially in soccer.

In February 2009, the team formally registered with South African Football Association (SAFA) under women's division and is currently playing for the ABSA league.

Thokozani is named after one of our fallen sisters, Thokozani Qwabe, a black lesbian soccer queen who was brutally murdered in Ladysmith, KZN in 2007 for loving other women. Another related incident of a hate crime involving a lesbian soccer player is that of Eudy Simelane who was found murdered in 2008, in KwaThema, Springs. More...

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Photo Experience (XP)

Photography experience is a community-based project in which I train women in basic photographic skills in order for them to articulate their multiple identities and daily realities.
In 2009 I collaborated with Triangle Project on yet another photo training workshop entitled Ndim' Lo ( This Is Me).
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The 2008 Photo XP project titled Indawo Yami (My Place) was developed between October and November 2008 in the townships of Cape Town prior to the much anticipated FIFA 2010 Soccer World Cup. It was designed to give 'visual voices' to seven unemployed, socially marginalized, lesbian women from Gugulethu, Nyanga and New Crossroads townships, Cape Town.
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The program followed the same conceptual and strategic approaches of previous Photo XPs. More...

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Chosen FEW at IGLFA championships in, London, UK.August 2008
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Visual Activism



Fine Art (Identity Politics)

2009
Collaboration
* Being (T)here


*Being


2008
* Massa & Mina(h)


2007-2009
*Faces & Phases

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