As athletes of today grapple with how to use their public platforms to fight for activist causes, Sport and Apartheid South Africa: Histories of Politics, Power

1999 North American Society for Sports History Book of the Year Douglas Booth looks at the role of sport in the fostering of a new national identity in South Af

Marion Keim maintains that through properly organized sport South Africans can learn to play together with respect, learn to all be on the same team and in the

Conventional historical and political analyses of South Africa have frequently neglected the vital role of sport in general, and rugby in particular. This book

The meanings attached to sports in South African societies, past and present, are explored in this book, which focuses particularly on the part played by the pr