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Pitch Battles
Sport, Racism and Resistance
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2021
Summary
“There will be a black Springbok over my dead body.”
— Dr Danie Craven, President of the South African Rugby Board, 1969
Just a year after the controversial D’Oliveira affair, the organised disruption of the all-white 1969/70 South African rugby and cricket tours to Britain represented a significant challenge to apartheid politics. Led by future cabinet minister Peter Hain, the ‘Stop the Seventy Tour’ campaign brought about the cancellation of both tours, presaging white South Africa’s expulsion from the Olympics and the end of apartheid sport altogether.
With his brand of attention-grabbing, direct action sports protest, the 19-year-old Hain emerged as a hero to some and enemy to others. Now, reflecting on these experiences with fifty years of hindsight, Lord Hain, together with South Africa’s foremost sports historian and fellow anti-apartheid activist André Odendaal, shows how decades of relentless international and domestic campaigning for equality led to a Springbok team captained by black athlete Siya Kolisi winning the 2019 Rugby World Cup.
Interspersing a wide range of examples with personal testimony, Pitch Battles explores the themes of sport, globalisation and resistance from the deep past to the present day. Published in the same year as the Stop The Tour documentary from acclaimed director Louis Myles, this compelling story of sacrifice, struggle and triumph reveals how sport should never be divorced from politics or society’s values.
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Copyright year
2021
ISBN-Print
978-1-78661-522-0
ISBN-Online
978-1-78661-524-4
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
503
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Contents No access
Preface No access
Introduction No access Pages 15 - 20
1 ‘Hain Stopped Play’ No access Pages 21 - 72
2 Empire and the British roots of sports apartheid No access Pages 73 - 129
3 A matter of life and death: Sport and rebellion No access Pages 130 - 155
4 SANROC in exile: Intensifying the sports boycott No access Pages 156 - 186
5 SACOS and the revival of the sports struggle inside South Africa No access Pages 187 - 270
6 Preparing to govern: Struggle, disjuncture and new strategies for sport in South Africa No access Pages 271 - 305
7 Sport and nation-building: The final push for national liberation and democracy, 1989–96 No access Pages 306 - 351
8 Making sense of sport and globalisation today No access Pages 352 - 403
