Large Diamonds by Steinmetz: South African Sporting Recreation

South Africans do not just see sports as a past time but more like a religion, with the most popular being cricket, football and rugby. Although other sports are of interest to South Africans such as athletics, basketball, Australian Rules football, canoeing, boxing, hockey, tennis, golf, surfing, netball, as well as the traditional South African sports of Jukskei, and Morabaraba.

Sports events in South Africa have a passionate following, although they remain largely divided along ethnic lines. Football, the most popular of the South African sports has a past with segregation and became the first sport to be unified and captured in the hearts of all South Africans. The atmosphere of football games would not be complete without the unique sounds of the vuvuzelas at football games as was evident at the 2010 FIFA World Cup which was the first one hosted in Africa. The professional football season in South Africa runs between August and May when teams contribute their skills to the Premier Soccer League and a few other competitions.? The national squad is affectionately called Bafana Bafana (meaning the boys, the boys).

In addition to Football is Rugby. Especially popular among persons of Afrikaner descent, the supporters hold rugby as very dear to them. If Springboks, the national team was to lose a game there would be massive discontentment among the supporters for days. The Rugby World Cup was held in South Africa and won by them in 1995. They view winning as an innate feeling but not also encourage the highest level of respect among opposing teams.

The second most popular sport in South Africa is cricket and it is traditionally the sport of the Anglo-African and Indian South African communities. Although it is now followed by members of all races. Of the former sports that were predominantly ?White? sports, the pioneer of political reform was Cricket, and Makhaya Ntini, a fast bowler, was the first black player on the national team, Proteas in 1998. International tests and one day series take place in the summer season between November and March between cricket teams from all over the world. The national competitions in South Africa are the four-day Supersport Series and the one-day matches, the Standard Bank Cup. For most of the Apartheid era, South Africa took a hiatus from international sport due to sanctions, but started competing globally after the country's white electorate voted in a referendum in favour of a negotiated settlement of the apartheid question. South African Sports have evolved over the last few decades and the government has been striving to improve the participation of the previously excluded majority in competitive sports.

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