On the 9th of July, Bluebells United and the community of Lenasia in the South of Johannesburg will commemorate 50 years since the football club helped defeat an apartheid by-law which prohibited the team from playing soccer at the Lenasia Stadium and using it as their home ground.
With the help of a councillor in the Johannesburg City Council Chamber, Doctor Selma Browde, and activist, the late Doctor Don Mattera, the campaign to repeal the legislation in 1973 played a major role in opening up parks and public venues to the black majority of the country.
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