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Traditional games of South Africa South Africa has some traditional games.[1] HistorySome traditional South African games are played annually at the National Indigenous Games Festival in September.[2] Traditional gamesBok-bokIn this game, players stand upright against a wall while opponents try to jump on their back to make them collapse.[3] Three totiIn three toti, the goal is to throw a ball at three tin cans that are piled up in a pyramid shape, and then to run back-and-forth between two predetermined points in order to score as many points as possible before the tin cans are re-assembled by the opponents.[4] Drie stokkiesDrie stokkies resembles the triple jump event: it involves participants trying to jump three times between three sticks, with the person who can jump the furthest beyond the last stick winning.[5][6] Jukskei Kho-kho
Kho kho is a traditional South Asian sport that dates to ancient India.[8][9] It is the second-most popular traditional tag game in the Indian subcontinent after kabaddi.[10] Kho kho is played on a rectangular court with a central lane connecting two poles which are at either end of the court. During the game, nine players from the chasing team (attacking team) are on the field, with eight of them sitting (crouched) in the central lane, while three runners from the defending team run around the court and try to avoid being touched.[9] Each sitting player on the chasing team faces the opposite half of the field that their adjacent teammates are facing. It is believed that kho-kho arrived in South Africa with the importation of indentured Indian servants by the British.[1] Dodgeball variantsDibekeDibeke is a game similar to football and dodgeball; in this game, the attacking team attempts to kick a ball down the length of the field in order to score points, while the defending team is allowed to pick up the ball with their hands and throw it at members of the attacking team to eliminate them.[11] DithiniIn dithini, players attempt to stack up various tin cans into a predetermined shape, while opponents can eliminate stacking players by hitting them with a ball.[12] Goat in the cageTwo players stand on either side of the playing area, and attempt to eliminate players by throwing the ball at them. The last remaining player wins.[13] Board gamesMorabaraba
Morabaraba is a traditional two-player strategy board game played in South Africa and Botswana with a slightly different variation played in Lesotho. This game is known by many names in many languages, including mlabalaba, mmela (in Setswana), muravava, and umlabalaba. The game is similar to twelve men's morris, a variation on the Roman board game nine men's morris. References
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