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56 _ TEMPUS-MAGAZINE.COM SPRING 2016 The trio are watching a football game (American soccer), and the artifcial turf surrounding them stands in stark contrast to a rugged backdrop of fat-canopied trees and wild brush just outside the walls of WhizzKids United's Football for Hope Centre. The last time Theron traveled to this place was two years earlier, also to visit WhizzKids United. The grassroots group uses football as an educational tool to engage local youth and then provide them with efective HIV prevention, care, treatment, and support. In 2013, her tour of the organization's Edendale facility meant navigating a large construction site; the Football for Hope Centre was just taking shape even as programs and professionals served the community in earnest. But now, on this day, the place is up, running, and in perpetual motion. Theron has already toured the Health Academy, an adolescent-friendly clinic that provides sexual and reproductive health services. She's huddled with members of WhizzKids' administrative team, talked to counselors, nurses, doctors, and met members of the organization's life skills team. She's seen how far they've come physically and practically in the months since she last visited. And now she's settled in and made herself comfortable for the part of the trip she enjoys most: hanging out. It doesn't take long for Theron's easy manner, which is apt to slip into an Afrikaans cadence upon hitting South African soil, to disarm the two adolescent girls. They're donning neon practice vests over white-collared school uniforms in preparation to participate, but they quickly disclose to the award-winning actress a treasonous truth: they don't really like to play soccer. Amid the fresh facilities and surrounded by peers wearing colorful apparel emblazoned with WhizzKids emblems and taglines, Theron asks simply, then why are they here? "Because sometimes, it's good to be part of a community," is the simple answer to their complicated reality. Because in a country that is home to the highest number Previous spread photo by Art Streiber / AUGUST "G O FA R. G O TO G E T H E R." — A F R I CA N P ROV E R B STOMACH DOWN, SPRAWLED ALONG THE SIDELINE OF A GLEAMING NEW SOCCER FIELD IN EDENDALE, SOUTH AFRICA, CHARLIZE THERON TALKS CASUALLY, QUIETLY WITH TWO YOUNG, ADOLESCENT GIRLS.