“Where mediocrity is tolerated”—Rugby Sevens and the management of diversity in South African rugby

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Bernard Cros, « “Where mediocrity is tolerated”—Rugby Sevens and the management of diversity in South African rugby », Les Cahiers d'Afrique de l’Est / The East African Review, ID : 10.4000/eastafrica.410


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Introduction With apartheid officially a thing of the past since the mid-1990s, race should no longer be a justification for discrimination in the “New South Africa.” Yet the country’s rugby union professional elite is still characterized by blatant racial imbalance: there are many more White—70% to 80% depending on the competition—than Black and Coloured players, and all seem to occupy specific positions on the teams according to race. This process, known as “stacking,” or “positional segreg...

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