The Rainbow Collective

Leeds Metropolitan University & The Northern Film School Foundation presents a documentary by The Rainbow Collective

To celebrate the testimonial year of Lucas Radebe and his subsequent honorary doctorate from Leeds Metropolitan University, a crew followed the star back to his homeland of South Africa. After a decade building a unique reputation at Leeds United football club, Lucas now wishes to devote more of his time than ever before to helping and inspiring young people both in South Africa where he is hailed as a national hero and in Leeds where he has found a new and welcoming home.

The Rainbow Collective crew observed Lucas as he visited Velebahleke Secondary School in Umlazi Township where he found echoes of his own childhood as well as a new generation of children with unprecedented opportunities in the new South Africa but a long is still go..