Question

Identity any two sporting codes that have been to forge integration and unity in communities charactised by conflict and inequalities provide examples

Answer 1

Superior’ whites were layered above the Cape coloured people, followed by the Indian community and, lastly, the Africans, the black majority. This article looks briefly at the historical context of racial divisions and, with the downfall of apartheid, the rhetoric of an avowedly de-racialized ‘new South Africa’. Given the chronic history of negative discrimination, it is understandable that affirmative action has become a major policy framework in the building of a post-apartheid society. But sport is a sobering example of how a domain can be ‘re-racialized’ in this quest. How does the African National Congress justify...