Sport plays a vital role in building relationships, bridging historical divides, and bringing about social change – and nowhere is this better demonstrated than in the story of rugby in South Africa. The image of Nelson Mandela cheering on a nearly all-white Springbok rugby team at the 1995 Rugby World Cup, in a moving gesture towards national unity in the early days of democracy, will forever be etched in the minds of sports lovers.
In June, 22 rugby-playing students from the University of Virginia (UVA) were able to relive, and learn from, South Africa’s national experience of rugby through a Summer School programme entitled Game Change: Race, Rugby, and Reconciliation in South…
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