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Andrew Watson: The 'most influential' black footballer for decades lost to history

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  By Andrew Aloia BBC Sport Last updated on 11 October 2021 11 October 2021 . From the section Football Watson was a trailblazer who helped transform how football was played There are two murals of black footballers facing one another across an alleyway in Glasgow. One helped shape football as we know it, the other is Pele. Andrew Watson captained Scotland to a 6-1 win over England on his debut in 1881. He was a pioneer, the world's first black international, but for more than a century the significance of his achievements went unrecognised. Research conducted over the past three decades has left us with some biographical details: a man descended of slaves and of those who enslaved them, born in Guyana, raised to become an English gentleman and famed as one of Scottish football's first icons. And yet today, 100 years on from his death aged 64, Watson remains something of an enigma, the picture built around him a fractured one. His grainy, faded, sepia image evokes many differen...

Anglo American names new bosses for bulk commodities unit, Kumba Iron Ore

 

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London-listed miner Anglo American said on Tuesday Mpumi Zikalala, who currently heads its De Beers business, will replace Themba Mkhwanazi as CEO of its subsidiary Kumba Iron Ore.

Mkhwanazi will become the boss of Anglo’s bulk commodities unit. The company said both the appointments will take effect from January 1 next year, adding that a search for De Beers’ new managing director was underway.

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So, cute Fanie, how is it going with your “burning ambition”? Wanting to retire with a final bang of a bonus, leaving a sucked-out empty shell of a company, me thinks.

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