unclehobart said:
LL... what was the sport of choice in RSA?
Gee, you know the official name! Very impressive. The official sport, and sport of choice, is rugby. Yes I've played it for two years. It was fun I guess, but I'm not too strong really. Once I started moving around the world and got to know other sports, I took an interest in hockey.
Rugby in South Africa is about the same as in New Zealand and Australia. In elementry school, its played barefoot. When you go to high school (grade 8 to 12), you can wear shoes if you want, or if the team requires it. A lot of friendly games we played were wearing normal clothes, and the only way to quickly distinguish someone from your team was footwear. So one team wore shoes, the other goes barefoot.
That was a looong time ago.