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Pitch Battles

Sport, Racism and Resistance

Pocket
Engelsk
Pitch Battles
Pitch Battles
  • Forfattere: Peter Hain , Andre Odendaal
  • Format: Pocket
  • Antall sider: 512
  • Språk: Engelsk
  • Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
  • EAN: 9781786615237
  • Utgivelsesår: 2021
  • Bidragsyter: Hain, Peter; Odendaal, Andre
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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 Andr¿dendaal, shows how decades of relentless international and domestic campaigning for equality led to a