The Rhodes Trust has suspended selecting past pupils from four top schools and their nine partner schools for scholarships in 2025, following concerns for some time that applicants and winners remain "predominantly white", 30 years after apartheid ended.
When I was growing up, rugby was emblematic in many ways of hard, tough masculinities. Playing rugby was part of the rites of passage from boyhood to manhood – and it’s no accident in South Africa that rugby is a very rough sport. When I was growing up, rugby was emblematic in many ways of hard.