The sad secret kept by the trailblazing black South African Steve Mokone

The former Coventry and Cardiff striker was an ANC member who had fled his homeland, and his anti-apartheid activities may have cost him his freedom

• Steve Mokone dies at the age of 82

When the Dutch journalist Tom Egbers first decided to find out what happened to his father’s footballing hero, he could never have imagined where it would lead. Almost 40 years had passed since the South African striker Steve ‘Kalamazoo’ Mokone spent two seasons playing for Egbers’ hometown club Heracles Almelo in Holland’s third division. But in 1993 no one had heard from him since.

“My father always used to tell me about this wonderful player who joined the club in the 1950s who was a black man – something that was unheard of in our part of the country,” he remembers.

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