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Author : Basil D'Oliveira
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The D'Oliveira Affair written by Basil D'Oliveira and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1969 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Oborne
Publisher : Little Brown Uk
ISBN 13 : 9780751534887
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Basil D'Oliveira written by Peter Oborne and published by Little Brown Uk. This book was released on 2005 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There have been innumerable biographies of cricketers. Peter Oborne's outstanding biography of Basil D'Oliveira is something else. It brings together sport, politics and race. It is the story of how a black South African defied incredible odds and came to play cricket for England, of how a single man escaped from apartheid and came to fulfil his prodigious sporting potential. It is a story of the conquest of racial prejudice, both in South Africa and in the heart of the English sporting establishment. The story comes to its climax in the so-called D'Oliveira Affair of 1968, when John Vorster, the South African Prime Minister, banned the touring MCC side because of the inclusion of a black man. This episode marked the start of the twenty-year sporting isolation of South Africa that ended only with the collapse of apartheid itself.
Author : Jon Gemmell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135773440
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)
Download or read book The Politics of South African Cricket written by Jon Gemmell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03-31 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Politics of South African Cricket analyses the relationship between politics and sport, in particular cricket, in South Africa. South African Cricket embraces an ethos that is symbolic of a wider held belief system and as such has distinctive political connotations in the region. Sport in South Africa is certainly influenced by forces beyond the playing field, but politics too can be influenced by the social and economic force of sport. Focusing on the sports boycott as a political strategy, Jon Gemmell analyses the relationship between sport and politics through a historical analysis of South African cricket. He employs case studies to explore the relationship between politics and South African cricket and argues convincingly that cricket assisted the reform process by undermining the legitimacy of the apartheid regime.
Author : Bruce Murray
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319936085
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)
Download or read book Cricket and Society in South Africa, 1910–1971 written by Bruce Murray and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Ricardo Soares de Oliveira
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190251417
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Magnificent and Beggar Land written by Ricardo Soares de Oliveira and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-02 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magnificent and Beggar Land is a powerful account of fast-changing dynamics in Angola, an important African state that is a key exporter of oil and diamonds and a growing power on the continent. Based on three years of research and extensive first-hand knowledge of Angola, it documents the rise of a major economy and its insertion in the international system since it emerged in 2002 from one of Africa's longest and deadliest civil wars. The government, backed by a strategic alliance with China and working hand in glove with hundreds of thousands of expatriates, many from the former colonial power, Portugal, has pursued an ambitious agenda of state-led national reconstruction. This has resulted in double-digit growth in Sub-Saharan Africa's third largest economy and a state budget in excess of total western aid to the entire continent. Scarred by a history of slave trading, colonial plunder and war, Angolans now aspire to the building of a decent society. How has the regime, led by President José Eduardo dos Santos since 1979, dealt with these challenges, and can it deliver on popular expectations? Soares de Oliveira's book charts the remarkable course the country has taken in recent years.
Author : Bruce K. Murray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (415 download)
Download or read book The D'Oliveira Affair 1968/9 written by Bruce K. Murray and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian Stoddart
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719049781
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (497 download)
Download or read book The Imperial Game written by Brian Stoddart and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1998-09-15 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the history of cricket in the British Empire, this text attempts to explain why the sport was so successful, even in countries such as India, Pakistan and the West Indies, where the Anglo-Saxon element remained in a small minority.
Author : Gustave Flaubert
Publisher : Bantam Classics
ISBN 13 : 0553213415
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (532 download)
Download or read book Madame Bovary written by Gustave Flaubert and published by Bantam Classics. This book was released on 1982-06-01 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exquisite novel tells the story of one of the most compelling heroines in modern literature--Emma Bovary. "Madame Bovary has a perfection that not only stamps it, but that makes it stand almost alone; it holds itself with such a supreme unapproachable assurance as both excites and defies judgement." - Henry James Unhappily married to a devoted, clumsy provincial doctor, Emma revolts against the ordinariness of her life by pursuing voluptuous dreams of ecstasy and love. But her sensuous and sentimental desires lead her only to suffering corruption and downfall. A brilliant psychological portrait, Madame Bovary searingly depicts the human mind in search of transcendence. Who is Madame Bovary? Flaubert's answer to this question was superb: "Madame Bovary, c'est moi." Acclaimed as a masterpiece upon its publication in 1857, the work catapulted Flaubert to the ranks of the world's greatest novelists. This volume, with its fine translation by Lowell Bair, a perceptive introduction by Leo Bersani, and a complete supplement of essays and critical comments, is the indispensable Madame Bovary.
Author : Richard Thorn
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1800466226
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (4 download)
Download or read book When Cricket and Politics Collided written by Richard Thorn and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-07-02 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Cricket and Politics Collided describes one of the most extraordinary periods in the history of English cricket.
Author : Peter Hain
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 178661524X
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)
Download or read book Pitch Battles written by Peter Hain and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-09-01 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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 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 society’s values.
Author : Jonty Winch
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 177609509X
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Too Black to Wear Whites written by Jonty Winch and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2020-02-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 and subsequent Test series 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 cricket administrator William Milton. Too Black to Wear Whites documents Hendricks’s tireless struggle for recognition and the public contro¬versies around his exclusion. The book shows how Hendricks was further sidelined at senior club level by a cricket establishment determined to save its 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 challenged the boundaries of the system.
Author : Inge Amundsen
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178897252X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (889 download)
Download or read book Political Corruption in Africa written by Inge Amundsen and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analysing political corruption as a distinct but separate entity from bureaucratic corruption, this timely book separates these two very different social phenomena in a way that is often overlooked in contemporary studies. Chapters argue that political corruption includes two basic, critical and related processes: extractive and power-preserving corruption.
Author : Ricardo Soares de Oliveira
Publisher : Hurst & Company
ISBN 13 : 9781850658580
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (585 download)
Download or read book Oil and Politics in the Gulf of Guinea written by Ricardo Soares de Oliveira and published by Hurst & Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the paradox at the heart of present-day Gulf of Guinea politics. The governance crisis festering throughout every one of the region's states ought to discourage outsiders from capital-intensive, long-term commercial involvement and cast doubts over the political survival of ruling cliques. However, the presence of large petroleum deposits radically changes this equation: the negative dynamics of state failure and widespread violence affect the general population but spare the oil nexus. The material and political resources made available by oil allow states to survive regardless of bad policies, facilitate their governing elites' material success regardless of reckless management, earn international allies regardless of erratic domestic conduct, and make companies want to invest regardless of risk. The recent oil boom only strengthens this paradoxical viability. Making possible what is arguably the largest inflow of resources into Africa in history, it is of a different order from the short-term viability afforded by the exploitation of other natural resources. Nonetheless, the partnership between insiders and outsiders that permits the extraction of oil is not conducive to positive long-term outcomes in institution-building or broad-based economic growth. Highly dependent on uninterrupted money flows and beset by various destabilising trends, the political economy of oil in the Gulf of Guinea is poised in a state of 'permanent crisis'. This study, based on extensive fieldwork, interviews and engagement with primary and secondary sources, is the first on the subject to take on the regional, as opposed to the country-specific, dimension. It has four key aims. The first is to bring out the extent to which oil has forged the interaction of the region with the world economy and how the ongoing expansion of the oil sector will deepen this pivotal role. Secondly, how this international relevance of petroleum has shaped postcolonial domestic politics and institutions. Thirdly, it examines the interests of different sets of empowered actors in the partnership between importers, producers and oil companies, their interplay, and the manner and contexts in which their goals diverge or converge. Finally, it analyses the sources of long-term sustainability of the political economy of oil in the Gulf of Guinea amidst seemingly unmanageable chaos.
Author : Robert E. Quirk
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393003901
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)
Download or read book An Affair of Honor written by Robert E. Quirk and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1962 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For this generation this study is definitive." --George Osborn, American Historical Review
Author : Ashwin Desai
Publisher : Fanele
ISBN 13 : 9781928232346
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (323 download)
Download or read book Reverse Sweep written by Ashwin Desai and published by Fanele. This book was released on 2016 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Ross Black
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719049323
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (493 download)
Download or read book Rugby and the South African Nation written by David Ross Black and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conventional historical and political analyses of South Africa have frequently neglected the vital role of sport in general, and rugby in particular. This book fills the gap through a critical interpretation of rugby's role in the development of white society, its role in shaping significant social divisions, and its centrality to the apartheid era "power elite".
Author : Peter Hain
Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1776191234
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (761 download)
Download or read book A Pretoria Boy written by Peter Hain and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A tour de force of an extraordinary half-century of campaigning for justice' – Helen Clark, former New Zealand Prime Minister and United Nations Development Chief Peter Hain – famous for his commitment to the anti-apartheid struggle – has had a dramatic 50-year political career, both in Britain and in his childhood home of South Africa, in an extraordinary journey from Pretoria to the House of Lords. Hain vividly describes the arrest and harassment of his activist parents and their friends in the early 1960s, the hanging of a close family friend, and the Hains' enforced London exile in 1966. After organising militant campaigns in the UK against touring South African rugby and cricket sides, he was dubbed 'Public Enemy Number One' by the South African media. Narrowly escaping jail for disrupting all-white South African sports tours, he was maliciously framed for bank robbery and nearly assassinated by a letter bomb. In 2017–2018 he used British parliamentary privilege to expose looting and money laundering in then President Jacob Zuma's administration, informed by a 'Deep Throat' source. While acknowledging that the ANC government has lost its way, Hain exhorts South Africans to re-embrace Nelson Mandela's vision.
