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Pitch Battles: Sport, Racism and Resistance

English

By (author): Andre Odendaal Peter Hain

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 DOliveira 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 Africas 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 Africas 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 societys values. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 454g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 08 Dec 2020
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield International
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781786615220

About Andre OdendaalPeter Hain

Peter Hain spent his childhood in South Africa. After his anti-apartheid parents were jailed banned and forced into exile in Britain he led campaigns to stop all-white Springbok and other all-white sports tours later becoming a Labour MP and Cabinet Minister then a member of the House of Lords and author of over twenty books. André Odendaal is Honorary Professor in History and Heritage Studies at the University of the Western Cape. A former first-class cricketer and anti-apartheid activist he is author or co-author of a dozen books on the social history of sport and the history of the liberation struggle in South Africa.

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