Bongani Khumalo scores as South Africa beat France at the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. Football has flourished in the country since the end of apartheid
At its height, the British empire consisted of a quarter of the world’s population and land area. The soldiers, sailors, industrialists, churchmen and politicians who were sent to conquer and subjugate brought the sports of their homeland with them, and British games proved popular with the empire’s population.
Many of the empire-builders were from the higher echelons of British society, and had been educated at one of the major public schools before going on to the Universities of Oxford or Cambridge. As part of a muscular Christian crusade, these ‘old boys’ saw it as their duty to inculcate health and values through sport.
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