Almost 14 years after the end of apartheid, South African rugby (a sport I left behind a long time ago) makes a bold decision: The national rugby union appointed its first black coach (in South African parlance he is a coloured; more on that politics, inherited from its racial state past, another time). Peter de [...]
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Peter de Villers and ‘colorblind’ rugby
Posted in Jake White, Luke Watson, Peter de Villiers, rugby, Rugby World Cup on January 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
‘South African Rugby: No Rainbow’
Posted in Jake White, Peter de Villiers, post-1994 South Africa, rugby, South Africa, sports on September 26, 2007 | 4 Comments »
My best achievement in competitive rugby was the semi-final of a regional high school tournament in the now disbanded, but necessary at the time, South African Council on Sports in 1987 (we lost to a more powerful team from Mitchell’s Plain, but the selfish tactics of our flyhalf also had much to do with it). [...]
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