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A psychologist analyses the rugby star’s life to extract lessons.
South Africa eyes a fourth title while Namibia aims to win its first world cup match. Rugby shows huge potential for growth in Africa.
The world’s largest women’s sporting event is being hosted in Africa for the first time.
South Africa is one of four African countries participating in the tournament, which begins on 28 July.
A new book delves into the issues faced by a 1971 international tennis tour, and calls for injustice to be recognised.
The event, worth R672 million to the country’s Western Cape economy, was one of the first to be impacted by COVID-19 on the global marathon stage.
Interviewing dozens of South African cricketers across all levels of the sport finds a perception that transformation has, in fact, slowed since the early 1990s.
No-one ever asks the players how the quota system affects them. When one academic did, she found conflicting and complex responses about the impact of transformation in South African sport.
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.
South Africa needs a new progressive sports movement that works for equality and peace based on mass participation and social justice.
Sport participation in South Africa remains rooted in the dilemmas of colonial society. It necessitates an ongoing need for discourse, debate and dialogue on decolonisation in sport history.
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Associate professor, Stellenbosch University
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Associate professor, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
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Honorary Researcher, University of Cape Town
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Associate Professor, Cape Peninsula University of Technology
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Professor, Department of Sport, Recreation and Exercise Science, University of the Western Cape
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Senior Lecturer in Industrial and Organisational Psychology, Nelson Mandela University
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Research Professor, UFS History Department, University of the Free State
