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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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The meanings attached to sports in South African societies, past and present, are explored in this book, which focuses particularly on the part played by the prominent team sports of rugby, soccer and cricket in the creation of social divisions and unities over the course of South African history. In the past, only white South Africans could represent "South Africa" in international sport. Now, formerly white-dominated sports have been promoted as unifying forces for a nation in the process of forging a new national identity. The book considers the history and changing meanings attached to particular sports in the old and new South Africas, and how sport is being used and abused today. ... Read more

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You wont get it!
American and European visitors to South africa won't really find this book helpful. It does not sufficiently explain the cultural diversity or political environment of the region. While white South Africans are essentialy from western culture and embrace western democracy, black (and other) South Africans have many different cultures and languages, and most embrace communist ideaology. The key is also understanding the polical landscape which overshadows everthing in South Africa. While Apartheid is long dead, racist oppression is not. The oppressor has simply taken a new form - that of the ANC government which clearly demonstrates contempt for the US and Western Democracy, which favours the individual.
The all powerful ANC monolith favours government intervention in the economy (the essence of communism)to ensure its' "Transformation" (a euphemism for the ethnic removal of whites).Scince coming to power the ANC has oppressed the white youth of South Africa by imposing racist legislation designed to re-engineer South African society with no regard for individual human rights. In response the true proponents of Democracy, South Africa's Democratic Party, have protested and been met with virulent critism by this evil regime.The ANC classes all white South Africans who do not agree with the Anc Regimes' Satalinist purges as being selfish "racists" who cling to "privilege. (i.e. to protest when your human rights are being violated by the state is a wrongful act.)Under the ANC the oppression of the white minority has been compounded by inter alia: total domination of the national mass media and "transforming" it into a nationalist propaganda tool, the undermining of political opposition rallies through state orchestrated violence, tne passing of the Internet Interception and Monitoring Act - designed to route out the last vestiges of contrary thought,the covert, state sponsored ethnic cleansing of white South African farmers, the passing of the racist Black Empowerment bill - which prevents large companies form doing business with small minority owned businesses, the heinous Employment Equity Act becoming even more stringent in enforcing racial discrimination and what is effectively a return to the apartheid days of job reservation, this time against a helpless minority (all done by using what was done during apartheid as justification - sheer hypocracy), government corruption and squandering of taxpayer and investor funds, a continuous, racist anti-minority propaganda message being broadcast to the international community and stregnthening of ties with known terrorist and oppressive regimes such as Zimbabwe, Algeria, Communist China, Iraq and Cuba (to name but a few).Anit-American sentiment may also be experienced by those tourist not on a "sanitized" tour.The facade of "non-racialism" may fool you if you are just visiting, but if you decide to immigrate, you and your children will then be faced with the harsh reality of living under a racist government. ... Read more