Figure 1.--This photo shows the vatious sport uniforms worn by the boys and girls at Laerskool Stellenbosch, a Christian primary school in Stellenbosh, Western Cape, South Africa. It is located about 50 km from Cape Town. Put your cursor on the image to see the rest of the atheletes.

South African children wear gym uniforms for physical education which was a required subject. The boys gym uniform is basically a "T"-shirt and shorts. I'm not sure what early girls gym uniforms were like, but now are essentially the samr as the boys. We also note the children wearing a variety of sports (games) uniforms. Here the sports and sports uniforms are virtually identical to those in England. Important sports include cricket, football (soccer). hockey, netball (for the girls), and rugby. A variety of individual sports like tennis are also played. The colors of the sports uniform of course vary from school to school, but the basic design is quite similar. One major difference is that it is more common for boys to go barefoot in gym classess. This is less common for sports as there are specialized footwear that are worn for most sports. Boys performing barefoot would be at a disadvantage. We do see children competing barefoot in atletics (track and field). Some schools also play rugby barefoot. Private schools tend to give more attention to sports than state schools, in large measure because of the costs involved.

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