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Sports In South Africa Essay

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A: SPORT AS A UNIFER I strongly believe that sporting events unify a nation. It has been proven that sports play a powerful role in unifying people of different cultural backgrounds. During the apartheid regime sports were clearly divided with soccer being considered a more "black" sport while rugby and cricket were considered a "white" sports. These barriers are slowly being removed and people of all different races are now seen to embrace all sporting events. South Africans together as a rainbow nation are seen to celebrate and rejoice together when the South African team be it Bafana Bafana, cricket or rugby is seen to reach a sporting victory 2.1) image 1 - Rugby World Cup 1995. South African victory, Nelson Mandela handing over trophy …show more content…

While school students tend to use dope as their drug preference, this is a gateway drug that can lead to addiction of much more sophisticated and dangerous drug. Most schools require the students to sign a consent allowing for drug testing in the school environment. I therefore believe that it is justified for a school to test for drugs as in so doing the school can not only isolate users but also facilitate their rehabilitation and perhaps prevent them from becoming hardened addicts. 2.3) It has been proven that drugs such as dope have positive medicinal affects in the pain treatment of cancer patients as well as in helping pain in other severe illnesses. I believe it is justified to use dope under these circumstances. 2.4) It seems that the sportsman who resort to performance enhancing substances are usually those who compete individually rather than as a member of a team such as Lance Armstrong and Maria Sharapova. Such sportsmen have the eyes of the world focused directly on them. They seen to have the need to better each of their previous experiences, their bodies can only perform so much as so they resort to these drugs in an attempt to extend themselves beyond …show more content…

His sporting career is ended. The sponsorships that the sportsman carries are terminated. So not only is his sporting career destroyed but the financial gains are lost. The people of the country would be devastated as they lost a national sporting

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