A conflict resolution expert – and rugby fan – explains how the game can restore spectacle and avoid farcical and dangerous mismatches due to players being sent off.
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Rugby players risk serious injury due to the game’s sheer physicality. Sports scientists have worked with international rugby bodies to improve safety.
The use of a video to challenge rugby decisions is uncommon. But analysis is useful to make the game safe and fair.
That none of his collections were published in apartheid South Africa testifies to the police state’s censorship.
Mandela left at the right time in 1999, when the country still seemed in a healthy state, after which he consolidated his international reputation.
Unity for the wrong reasons reduces social cooperation to whatever happens to benefit a particular person or group, making it a zero-sum game.
The springbok emblem was introduced under white rule in South Africa and by retaining it, it remains a burden for many South Africans who followed the Rugby World Cup.
How sports coaches can inspire their team to defy the odds and win.
Many South Africans hold onto the hope that a win in the World Cup translates into another defining moment for the country.
Today in South Sudan’s political climate, footballing success may wield more symbolic importance than anything else.
Race still plays a big part in South African society. Sport is no exception.
South Africans supporting visiting New Zealand rugby teams took root in a tumultuous time as an expression of defiance against apartheid.
While many South African police officers, who were born into poverty, grew to appreciate the job, they want more for their children - careers requiring degrees - and work to provide them.
South African rugby superstar Joost van der Westhuizen, who has died aged 45, transcended not only the game of rugby but also life itself.
The psyche of defeat is linked to various things: the team’s maturity, captaincy, level of preparedness, confidence in coaching staff and personality characteristics of individual team members.
Top contributors
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Research fellow, University of the Free State
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Associate professor, Stellenbosch University
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Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Limpopo
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Vasti Roodt is Associate Professor and Head of PROSPER (Promoting Social and Political Ethics Research) in the Department of Philosophy, Stellenbosch University
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Research Associate at UCT's Centre of Criminology, Consultant at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), University of Cape Town
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Associate Professor of History, University of Washington
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Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Psychology, University of Winchester
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Lecturer, Culture and Media department, Birkbeck, University of London
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Senior Lecturer Department of Human Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences , University of Cape Town
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Professor of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Research Fellow, Labour, Development & Governance Unit, University of Cape Town
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Professor and Head of Department of Political and Conflict Studies, Nelson Mandela University
