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==Early life== Radebe was born to Emily and Johannes Radebe in the [[Diepkloof]] section of [[Soweto]], near [[Johannesburg]], as one of 11 children.<ref name="goal.com">{{Cite web |last=Makhaya |first=Ernest |date=12 April 2020 |title=From troubled beginnings to icon: Kaizer Chiefs and Leeds United legend Lucas Radebe |url=https://www.goal.com/en/news/troubled-beginnings-to-icon-kaizer-chiefs-and-leeds-united/m1p4x0bgw7jw1s6dt4b3aheqs |access-date=27 March 2021 |website=Goal}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Hay |first=Phil |date=19 May 2020 |title=Radebe: Sometimes I don't believe it, that it was my name Mandela used |url=https://theathletic.com/1820161/2020/05/20/lucas-radebe-nelson-mandela-south-africa-leeds-interview/ |url-access=subscription |access-date=27 March 2021 |website=The Athletic}}</ref><ref name="Early career">{{Cite news |title=Lucas Radebe β Footballer |work=BBC News |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/dna/place-lancashire/plain/A29265555 |access-date=23 March 2011 |archive-date=11 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131111132529/http://news.bbc.co.uk/dna/place-lancashire/plain/A29265555 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He attended the local [[Bopasenatla Secondary School]]<ref name="iol.co.za">{{Cite web |title=Radebe donates computers to school |url=https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/radebe-donates-computers-to-school-40213 |access-date=9 April 2019 |website=Independent Online |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Adams |first=Sheena |date=23 February 2007 |title=Radebe relives high school life |url=https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/radebe-relives-high-school-life-316409 |access-date=27 March 2021 |website=Independent Online |language=en}}</ref> until he was 15 years old. His parents sent him to one of the former homelands in Grade 10, [[Bophuthatswana]], as a way to keep him safe from the violent neighbourhood of Diepkloof Zone Four in Soweto. There he attended Ngotwane High School near [[Zeerust]].<ref name="iol.co.za" />
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