1st Edition
Klaverjas and the Hidden Sporting Heritage of South Africa Card Games, Community, and Black History
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Acronyms and Initialisms
Note on the Spelling of Key Terms
Introduction
Chapter 1: Foregrounding
Chapter 2: Towards an Organised Sport
Chapter 3: Apartheid Intersections and Heritage Denial
Chapter 4: Uniformity and Parallel Struggles
Chapter 5: A Klaverjas World Championship
Chapter 6: Towards a South African Klaverjas Board
Chapter 7: Mandela Decade - Operations of the National Board
Chapter 8: Heritage Change and National Recognition
Chapter 9: Ongoing Search for Respectability
Chapter 10: Into the Future
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Dr Hendrik Snyders is a Research Fellow at the National Museum and Free State University in Bloemfontein, South Africa. His research broadly focuses on identity, masculinity, and cultural heritage. He recently published Blitzboks: A History of Rugby Sevens in South Africa, and Rough Diamonds, A History of South African Baseball.
Leonard Jacobs is a retired klaverjas player based in Cape Town and a former executive committee member of a number of regional associations. He is also a founder member of the South African Klawerjas Board of Control and has served organised klawerjas in South Africa for more than forty years.
