A Brief But Spectacular take on empowering 'soccer grannies'
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🗓️ 25 March 2026
⏱️ 2 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Finally, tonight, we meet a woman in South Africa who's working to empower older women in her country. |
| 0:06.3 | There, the average life expectancy is in the mid-I'm sorry, early to mid-60s. |
| 0:12.2 | And tonight's brief but spectacular, she talks about how her own cancer diagnosis inspired her to help change lives. |
| 0:20.2 | The day I was told that I have cancer, I was in a shock. |
| 0:24.6 | It was not okay. |
| 0:26.6 | You know, but let me tell you something. |
| 0:28.6 | One day I decided to, because the doctor will always tell me to exercise. |
| 0:32.6 | And I said, okay, I can walk. |
| 0:35.6 | As I was walking, one granny was greeting me and said, okay, I can walk. |
| 0:42.6 | As I was walking, one granny was greeting me and said, I have a problem. |
| 0:44.5 | And I said, no, come join me. |
| 0:47.0 | And then as we were walking, another one joined us. |
| 0:49.0 | Remember, they are telling me their problems. |
| 0:51.3 | And we ended up at the soccer field. |
| 0:53.2 | I was very tired under a shade. |
| 0:55.1 | Boys were playing somewhere. The ball came to us. So one granny decided to kick the ball. She missed. But she kept on running. |
| 1:02.4 | The other one joined. Said, I can. I'm better than you. She missed. And the boys came there. |
| 1:08.7 | They were laughing and they tried to play with the grannies. |
| 1:12.7 | And the next day, I received a call from one granite. She said, Mama Beka, yesterday it was nice. |
| 1:18.7 | You know, I enjoyed it. I came back. I slept like a baby. Can we do it again? I said, |
| 1:24.7 | it's okay. Let's go there. This is our time to enjoy. Any granny |
| 1:31.2 | who is at home, they know that, they know what I'm telling them. Look at where we are today, |
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