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‘Highly readable and packed with fascinating historical detail, this is
the compelling story of a ripsnorting South African cricketer whose
career was smothered by the shameless colour prejudice of Cecil John
Rhodes and his snobbish cronies. By turns formidable, sad, enlivening
and enormously informative, this book pays Hendricks the honour that
has long been his due.’ – Bill Nasson
William Henry ‘Krom’ Hendricks was the first sportsman to be formally
barred from representing South Africa on the basis of race. Hailing
from Cape Town’s Bo-Kaap, he played in 1892 for the South African Malay
team against the touring English, who insisted that he was among the
best fast bowlers in the world. This made his exclusion from South
Africa’s tour of England in 1894 all the more unjust.
Ranged against Hendricks were virulent racism and a political alliance
between arch-imperialist Cecil John Rhodes, Afrikaner Bond leader J.H.
Hofmeyr, and William Milton, who controlled cricket at the Cape through
the Western Province Cricket Union. Too Black to Wear
Whites documents Hendricks’s tireless struggle for recognition
and the public controversies around his exclusion. The book shows how
Hendricks was further sidelined as club teams made up of different
races were prevented from playing against one another, saving white
players the embarrassment of being shown up by the country’s best fast
bowler.
Considering his importance in South African sports history,
surprisingly little is known about Krom Hendricks. The story of his
life is told here for the first time in a fascinating drama that
describes the formation of a segregated South Africa through the career
of an exceptional cricketer who dared to test the boundaries of the
system.
World Champions (2nd edition) continues the story of South African rugby in a new chapter that includes coverage of the momentous 2023 Rugby World Cup win by South Africa’s Springboks.
South Africa won the 2023 Rugby World Cup by defeating New Zealand 12-11 in front of more than 80 000 spectators at the Stade de France. As this 2nd edition shows, in winning the Webb Ellis Cup for the fourth time, the Springboks became the competition’s most successful team. Back-to-back victories in Yokohama in 2019 and Paris in 2023 inspired a renewed appreciation of the skills that have always existed across South Africa’s racial spectrum. In its telling of this story, World Champions 2nd Edition again offers readers insights that go beyond the media-led rendition of South African rugby.
Further additions to this 2nd edition include a revised Introduction, expanded Index, updates to the history of South Africa’s first steps toward playing international rugby in the late nineteenth century, as well as additional content about, inter alia institutions such as the national governing bodies, and the winning teams in 1995, 2007, 2019 and 2023.
In this way, the 2nd edition continues to provide both the most-relevant and most-current history of South African rugby and the many organisations and individuals that have contributed to its evolution.
Jonty Winch traces the complicated history of South African rugby
from its establishment in the Cape in 1879 through to the 2019
World Cup championship.
As he explores key events and questions
entrenched narratives, Winch opens a compelling new window on
colonialism, apartheid, and the evolution of South African society.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
This Research Handbook provides a cutting-edge review of complex
project organizing (CPO), and suggests fruitful avenues for future
research with a focus on grand challenges and a sustainable future.
Split into four sections, this Research Handbook addresses
transitions within the field of CPO that could, and should, take
place to achieve our shared aspirations for a better future.
Featuring a team of contributors that is both interdisciplinary and
geographically widespread, chapters provide a clarification of core
concepts of complex project organizing, comprehensive coverage of
leading theoretical perspectives for CPO, as well as a discussion
of key empirical research themes. In particular, special attention
is given to the implications of Industry 4.0 for complex project
organizing. The Research Handbook on Complex Project Organizing
develops a guiding path to help academics - both established and
early career - and research students in the fields of business
leadership, operations management, and knowledge management
navigate through these important topics, and envision how to
respond to the grand challenges we all face.
"Encountering Buddhism in Twentieth-Century British and American
Literature" explores the ways in which 20th-century literature has
been influenced by Buddhism, and has been, in turn, a major factor
in bringing about Buddhism's increasing spread and influence in the
West. Focussing on Britain and the United States, Buddhism's
influence on a range of key literary texts will be examined in the
context of those societies' evolving modernity. Writers discussed
include T. S. Eliot, Hermann Hesse, Virginia Woolf, Jack Kerouac,
Allen Ginsberg, J. D. Salinger, Iris Murdoch, Maxine Hong Kingston.
This book brings together for the first time a series of
context-rich interpretations that demonstrate the importance of
literature in this ongoing cultural change in Britain and the
United States.
From Mean Girl to BFF, Girlfriends and Postfeminist Sisterhood
explores female sociality in postfeminist popular culture. Focusing
on a range of media forms, including film, magazines, conduct
books, TV and digital networking sites, Alison Winch reveals the
ways in which friendships are increasingly encouraged to be
strategic. Girlfriendship is examined as an affective social
relation where slut-shamers, frenemies and bridezillas bond by
controlling each other's body image through a 'girlfriend gaze'.
Through a combination of psychosociological theory and media
analysis, this book offers a complex understanding of patriarchy,
by looking at how neoliberalism penetrates the intimate relations
between women.
Addressing the controversial issues of the blurring boundaries
between news and entertainment and the movement toward
sensationalism in broadcast journalism, this study examines these
distinctions: how boundaries are constructed and by whom; how they
are enforced or broken and why. Rather than reflecting essential
attributes by which news can be distinguished from other kinds of
communication, boundary setting is viewed as a social construction,
determined and changed by journalists wishing to assert their
jurisdiction and authority and the prestige of the profession. Four
instances of boundary-work rhetoric are examined in depth: (1) the
development of roles and rules of television journalism during the
early years of television; (2) attempts at Congressional and FTC
regulation--broadcasting codes defining bona fide news; (3)
responses to a 1992 journalistic scandal over a Dateline NBC story
on exploding GM pickup trucks, and (4) reporting sex scandals
during recent political campaigns, such as the allegations of
Gennifer Flowers of her involvement with Bill Clinton. In these and
other cases, journalists developed strategies to minimize harm to
the profession.
The primary purpose of this edited collection is to evaluate
critically the relationship between local government and national
economic development. It focuses on how the relationship between
local government and development is structured, and the specific
institutional arrangements at national and subnational levels that
might facilitate local government's assumption of the role of
development agent. In light of the contradictory outcomes of
development and implied experimentation with new modalities,
post-development discourse provides a useful explanatory framework
for the book. Schoburgh, Martin and Gatchair's central argument is
that the pursuit of national developmental goals is given a
sustainable foundation when development planning and strategies
take into account elements that have the potential to determine the
rate of social transformation. Their emphasis on localism
establishes a clear link between local government and local
economic development in the context of developing countries.
First published in 1952, British Empirical Philosophers is a
comprehensive picture of one of the most important movements in the
history of philosophic thought. In his introduction, Professor A.
J. Ayer distinguishes the main problems of empiricism and gives a
critical account of the ways in which the philosophers whose
writings are included in this volume attempted to solve them.
Editors Ayer and Raymond Winch bring together an authoritative
abridgement of John Locke s Essay Concerning Human Understanding;
Bishop George Berkeley s Principles of Human Knowledge; almost the
entire first book of David Hume s Treatise Concerning Human Nature;
and extracts from Thomas Reid s Essay on the Intellectual Powers of
Man and John Stuart Mill s Examination of Sir William Hamilton s
Philosophy.
First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
This specialist handbook is intended as a quick and easy reference
guide to be used by individuals and organisations that are involved
with the production of food, from both agriculture and
horticulture. It is designed to be used as a reference book that
answers basic questions about how food is produced from plants, and
aims to demystify the subject of growing food as far as possible.
The focus is firmly on the technical aspects of food crops; topics
such as animal husbandry, agrochemicals and genetic engineering are
only briefly mentioned. There is a strong international flavour to
the book, with a view to making it user friendly throughout the
English speaking community. In fact, the manual is designed to be
also used by those who normally speak or read English as their
second language, using simple English terminology and phrasing,
with explanations and cross references of the terminology, acronyms
and terms used.
This book explores how cricket in South Africa was shaped by
society and society by cricket. It demonstrates the centrality of
cricket in the evolving relationship between culture, sport and
politics starting with South Africa as the beating heart of the
imperial project and ending with the country as an international
pariah. The contributors explore the tensions between fragmentation
and unity, on and off the pitch, in the context of the racist
ideology of empire, its 'arrested development' and the reliance of
South Africa on a racially based exploitative labour system. This
edited collection uncovers the hidden history of cricket, society,
and empire in defining a multiplicity of South African identities,
and recognises the achievements of forgotten players and their
impact.
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