Race and Sport in South Africa

This profile of Matthew Booth, a center-half for the SA national team and its only white player, has some interesting aspects. Booth describes black schools playing soccer on "dirt and scrubland," I saw exactly that last Friday. The guys I was talking to asked if American school teams play in stadiums. Not exactly, but compared to the dirt field they were using, many of our school facilities do seem like stadiums.

For news about Africa in general I recommend the BBC page: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/default.stm.