1st Edition
Sport Past and Present in South Africa (Trans)forming the Nation
This book provides an interpretation of sport in contemporary South Africa through an historical account of the evolution and social ramifications of sport in the twentieth century. It comprises chapters which trace the growth of sports such as football, cricket, surfing, boxing and rugby, and considers their relationship to aspects of racial identity, masculinity, femininity, political and social development in the country. The book also draws out the wider geo-political significance of South African sport, placing it in the context of the development of sport both elsewhere on the African continent and internationally. The history of sport has seen significant international growth over the past few decades. For the most part, however, the history of sport in Africa has remained largely untraced. By detailing the way in which sport’s development in South Africa overlapped with major socio-political processes on the wider African continent, this volume seeks to narrow the gap.
This book was previously published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.
1. Prologue: Sport Historiography in South Africa – An Appraisal
Albert Grundlingh, André Odendaal & Scarlett Cornelissen
2. Apartheid Sport: A Post-Modern Discourse
Douglas Booth (University of Otago)
3. Symbolic Realms: Revisiting the Role of Race, Apartheid and Power in African Olympism, 1960-1992
Scarlett Cornelissen (University of Stellenbosch)
4. Masculinity and Sport in South Africa
Glen Thompson (University of Stellenbosch)
5. Football, Race and Identity in South Africa
Peter Alegi (Michigan State University)
6. The Neglected Game: Women and Football in South Africa
Martha Saavedra (University of California, Berkeley)
7. Rugby, Race and Nation
John Nauright (George Mason University)
8. ‘Between the Springbok and Ikhamanga: The Story of South Africa’s Black Rugby Exiles’
Hendrik Snyders (University of Stellenbosch)
9. Cricket and Race in South Africa
Ashwin Desai (University of Kwazulu-Natal)
10. The Dissemination of Cricket among Afrikaners
Albert Grundlingh (University of Stellenbosch)
11. Neither ‘Cricketers nor Ladies’: Towards a History of Women and Cricket in South Africa, 1860-2005
André Odendaal (University of the Western Cape)
12. ‘Marvellous Muscles’: Black Boxing on the Reef and a History of Ezekiel ‘King Kong’ Dlamini
Tyler Fleming (University of Texas, Austin)
13. Global Tentacles: FIFA, Football and Diplomacy: the Battlegrounds of Power
Paul Darby (University of Ulster)
14. Epilogue: Sport, Politics, Culture and Society in South Africa – Past, Present and Future
Editors: Scarlett Cornelissen & Albert Grundlingh
Biography
Scarlett Cornelissen is Professor in the Department of Political Science at Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
Albert Grundlingh is Professor of History at Stellenbosch University.
