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The true following of football in South Africa has been clearly reflected by the FIFA 2010 World Cup. Not only is football the biggest sport in South Africa, it is the only sport with true support among the 80 percent (40 million) black population there.
Rugby union remains a pillar of the old apartheid regime, so beloved by the likes of Danie Craven.
Contrast the thousands of black faces in the crowds and in the streets with the almost exclusively white South African union crowds. The dribble we are fed that rugby union is the main sporting code of South Africa is shown up for being a mere wish of that code in competition with the real sporting choice for Africans: football.
Unless rugby union really confronts its own past in South Africa in a meaningful and honest way, that sport will never move forward except among its Afrkiaaner-dominated following.
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