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11 kids from rugby team killed a guy in a brawl creating national outrage
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<blockquote data-quote="TRF_heineken" data-source="post: 984589" data-attributes="member: 40658"><p>In South Africa we do get the occasional brawl in the amateurs but not in the professional matches, and hardly in the high school matches.</p><p></p><p>But the sport isn't necessarily the reason for the violence as the cause of the brawl is sometimes non-rugby related triggers such as racism and gang affiliation.</p><p></p><p>What I mean by this is best illustrated through examples:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Racism: A white person tackles a black person and makes a derogatory/racist comment towards the black person, causing the black person to retaliate. Or vice versa.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Gang-related: Mostly this happens in the cape, where members of gangs have tattoos or some form of insignia to show they are in a specified gang, and they play against a team whose players are from another gang, which results in a turf-war like brawl to show their loyalty and commitment to their gang.</li> </ul><p>The sport isn't the cause for the violence, but the sport is used as a mechanism to help people deal with anger/rage, but it is up to every person who plays the sport, to respect the game, the players and officials and stay within the framework of the sport. Fights and brawls usually result in a banning of the people involved from the sport, and the zero tolerance of such behaviour is universal.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TRF_heineken, post: 984589, member: 40658"] In South Africa we do get the occasional brawl in the amateurs but not in the professional matches, and hardly in the high school matches. But the sport isn't necessarily the reason for the violence as the cause of the brawl is sometimes non-rugby related triggers such as racism and gang affiliation. What I mean by this is best illustrated through examples: [LIST] [*]Racism: A white person tackles a black person and makes a derogatory/racist comment towards the black person, causing the black person to retaliate. Or vice versa. [*]Gang-related: Mostly this happens in the cape, where members of gangs have tattoos or some form of insignia to show they are in a specified gang, and they play against a team whose players are from another gang, which results in a turf-war like brawl to show their loyalty and commitment to their gang. [/LIST] The sport isn't the cause for the violence, but the sport is used as a mechanism to help people deal with anger/rage, but it is up to every person who plays the sport, to respect the game, the players and officials and stay within the framework of the sport. Fights and brawls usually result in a banning of the people involved from the sport, and the zero tolerance of such behaviour is universal. [/QUOTE]
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