Now Listen Here - The life and times of Bill Jardine (Paperback, Illustrated Ed)

Bill Jardine was born in Vrededorp (Fietas) in 1934. His mother, Rose Jardine, championed the causes of garment workers in the fifties and sixties, under the leadership of Solly Sachs who founded the Garment Workers Union. Bill Jardine grew up in Vrededorp and spent his childhood on his grandfather's farm as well as in the vibrant, cosmopolitan Vrededorp. What Sophiatown was to music Vrededorp was to sport. Many great coloured, African and Indian sportsmen and sports personalities had their roots in this vibrant township. Cricket, football, rugby and tennis were all played here. What this closely knit community was deprived of in facilities and amenities was made up for in enthusiasm and passion. Streets formed teams and tournaments were held into the night while cars' headlights provided floodlights and mothers and children looked on biting their nails to the quick. Christmas, Diwali, Eid, Guy Fawkes, New Years' Day, kept the people of this lively township in an endless stream of drinking, eating, dancing and dressing up. The Star bioscope provided entertainment with B grade Westerns and musicals. Apartheid broke up this community in the forties when Bill was fourteen, and the Jardine family moved across town to the coloured township of Noordgesig. He played rugby for Newtonians and when his peers retired he took up the cudgels to fight a bigger game, that of racism in sport. To this end Bill joined the South African Council of Sport (SACOS) in 1973. In the mid eighties Bill outgrew the rigidity of SACOS and helped form the National Sports Congress (the NSC). He was a key figure in unifying sport and getting South African athletes and sports men and women to compete in international arenas. Among Bill's friends and acquaintances are Nelson Mandela, Thabo Mbeki, Sam Ramsamy, Steve Tshwete, Makhenkesi Stofile, Amos Masondo, Mohamed Valli Moosa, Danny Jordaan and Ali Bacher.

General

Imprint:	STE Publishers
Country of origin:	South Africa
Release date:	October 2003
First published:	May 2003
Authors:	Chris van Wyk
Dimensions:	230 x 151 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	263
Edition:	Illustrated Ed
ISBN-13:	978-1-919855-08-0
Categories:	Books > Law > General Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Humanities > History > African history > General Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > General Books > History > African history > General Books > History > World history > From 1900 > General Books > Biography > General
LSN:	1-919855-08-4
Barcode:	9781919855080

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