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Something’s different about the reaction to South Africa’s victory at the 2023 Rugby World Cup, its fourth title.
Something’s different about the reaction to South Africa’s victory at the 2023 Rugby World Cup, its fourth title.
What if the social media conditions of 2021 existed in 1981? A group of New Zealand writers tweeted the damned 1981 Springbok rugby tour as if it was happening now.
Springbok rugby projects itself as progress, but preserves the way things are in the popular consciousness of South Africans.
Eric “Bucs” Damons existed beyond the frame of the narrow scope of the elite South African sporting narrative.
What the recent World Rugby Sevens Series global championship reveals about national rugby cultures, particularly South Africa's.
We should not let the achievements of a multiracial Springbok rugby team, led by its first black captain, be commodified and commercialized in the service of neoliberalism.
The late Springbok rugby wing's legacy needs to be sustained, and the hope that he represented is perhaps more critical than ever.
The compromises and conciliations of South African rugby mirror the unfinished transition from apartheid racism in the broader society.
What does the divergent fates of Springbok Eben Etzebeth and former coach Peter de Villiers say about the state of South African rugby?
Williams, the only black South African player in the 1995 Rugby World Cup, was a complex figure in complex times. He deserves to be remembered as such.
The Rugby Championship, the World Cup, and Springbok politics in South Africa.
Rugby in South Africa is generally understood to be a white sport, but contemporary statistics reveal that a great many more black people than white people play rugby there.
When former Springbok Ashwin Willemse walked off a SuperSport TV set, he forced conversations on racism in South African rugby and its sports media.
The grumblings of dissatisfaction and anger among black readers over stories about deserving blacks in South Africa.
The writer, Lloyd Gedye, can handle most things, but the mischaracterization of attempts to deracialize the Springbok rugby team, made his blood boil.
How a black French rugby player's crying during the playing of the country's national anthem was appropriated for all sorts of rightwing and reactionary politics.
I don’t watch much rugby these days, but the final moments of the cup final the 2011
Last Saturday, a rugby playoff match in South Africa was switched from the white suburbs of
Don't expect "Invictus" to break from the "rainbow nation" narrative despite that symbolism's sell buy date having long expired.