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Pitch Battles - Sport, Racism And Resistance (Paperback): Peter Hain, Andre Odendaal

Pitch Battles - Sport, Racism And Resistance (Paperback)

Peter Hain, Andre Odendaal

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“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 Andrι 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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Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: April 2020
Authors: Peter Hain • Andre Odendaal
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 40mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 5063
ISBN-13: 978-1-78661-523-7
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General
Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > General
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Area / regional studies > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Leisure
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LSN: 1-78661-523-1
Barcode: 9781786615237

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