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__**South Africa football association**__
In South Africa they have a national team. Bafana Bafana (The Boys)  Their costume when they play home is yellow shirt, yellow socks and green shorts. But when they not play on the home ground, but on another “ground“ they play whit green shirt and yellow shorts.  In this year 11. june to 11. july in 2010, it was a football VM in Johannesburg. The Spain was the winner of the football VM, and Spain win against Netherlands in the last match.





Rugby is one of the three greatest sports in south Africa along whit soccer and cricket. Rugby is a more violent sport than soccer and cricket and it got many fans that are taking it as a serious matter so people there will be majorly disappointed or greatly joyed by it.

The south African national team is good and the south Africans expect them to win all the time. The south African national team is in the world elite.

Originally rugby was a white mans game in south Africa while soccer was for the colored, but that has changed trough the times. It is now a game of choice for the whole country. The development of this is thanks to the South African Rugby Football Union (SARFA) which have worked hard for this to happen.

The national south Africa team is called The Springboks. Some of the biggest highlights is that they won the world cup in rugby. It was in 1995 as south Africa hosted it. They won the final 15-12 and it is honored as the worlds most coveted trophy in the rugby world. Another of their highlights is that they had a winning streak in 1997-98 and won over country’s such as Australia, New Zealand, France, England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and Italy - all of them except Italy are teams rated amongst the world's elite. South africa beat England 15-6 in the final of the world cup in Paris, after going trough the tournament without loosing a single time, because of that they joined Australia as the only two two times winner of the William Webb Ellis Trophy.

**Cricket** South Africa's cricket started to develop in 1970, but because of its former apartheid government it was separated from most of the world for 21 years, until 1991. Cricket just as rugby was originally a white mans game and needed someone to want all to play it to make it so. What has made it possible for the colored people and made them want to play it is much of Cricket South Africa's development program’s work.

While it was under this isolation the country could only play against Australia, New-Zealand and England. After this they adapted to the rules for international playing very quick. India was the first country to play against south Africa after the isolation.

The national south Africa cricket team is called Proteas, it was previously called Springboks. After they got into the the internationals they lost their two first matches against india, but in the third match they won and showed what they where capable off. After that they started up to become one of the bigger teams.

The proteas is now one of the big powerhouses in the cricket world and is seen on as the worlds best or second best team. They have been in the top elite for well over a decade now. In the world cup which is held every four years they have been on the top all the time from they started in it.

School system:  Compulsory, free 9 year school for the age 6 to 15. it is 6 years on the ground school followed by 3 years on the the youth school. Not very different from the school system in Norway except it is 10 year of compulsory school in Norway. It is about 27 000 schools spread out round the country, where approximately 6000 are high school students 7th to 12th grade. and the rest is primary school students 0-5th. South Africa has round 17,5 learner per teacher in average. The have over twice as many Learners as the population of Norway (and some more (about 13 Millions)). In South Africa it is common to use school uniforms, the colors depends on which school you go to. It is also about 1000 private schools and 390 for schools people with special needs.

Many school also have well developed online system for schools.



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