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The Cape Town Marathon has become Africa’s first World Marathon Major. But can a city that sees itself as an exception to the continent be its marathon capital?
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Mattie C. Webb
Mattie C. Webb, PhD, is a social and political historian of the United States and Southern Africa. Her book Shopfloor Statecraft: South African Workers and US Multinational Companies During Apartheid is forthcoming from Columbia University Press. She is also a competitive long-distance runner who has competed in the Comrades Ultra-Marathon and, more recently, the Cape Town Marathon.