Prologue: Sport past and present in South Africa: (Trans)forming the nation?

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Notes

 1. See Neville Alexander, ‘Nasiebou en sub-nasionale identiteite in Suid-Afrika na 1994’ [‘Nation-building and sub-national identities in South Africa after 1994’], Litnet, 12 Aug. 2010. www.litnet.co.za/cgibin/giga.cgi?cmd=cause_dir_news_item&cause_id=1270&news_id=91141&cat_id=163.

 2. Ibid.

 3. Dale McKinley, ‘The myths and realities of the FIFA World Cup’, Africa Files, 14 June 2010. www.africafiles.org/article.asp?ID=23856.

 4. Zola Maseko, ‘Rainbow-Nation patriotism, pah!’ Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg), 18–24 June 2010.

 5. The works that may be singled out are Archer and Bouillon, The South African Game; Black and Nauright, Rugby and the South African Nation; Grundlingh et al., Beyond the Tryline; Booth, The Race Game; Nauright, Sport, Cultures and Identities in South Africa.

 6. For comprehensive analyses see Black and Nauright, Rugby and the South African Nation.

 7. Couzens, ‘An Introduction to the History of Football in South Africa’.

 8. Booth, ‘The South African Council on Sport’; and Booth, ‘Sport and Society’.

 9. In particular Brutus, ‘Sport and Apartheid’; De Broglio, South Africa: Racism in Sport; Ramsamy, Apartheid: The Real Hurdle. Also see Merrett, ‘“In Nothing Else are the Deprivers So Deprived”’.

10. Black, ‘The Symbolic Politics of Sport Mega-events’; Cornelissen, ‘“It's Africa's Turn!”’; Cornelissen and Swart, ‘The 2010 World Cup as Political Construct’; Van der Merwe, ‘Political Analysis of South Africa's Hosting’.

11. Makhenkesi Stofile, South Africa Minister of Sport and Reecreation, Budget vote speech, National Assembly, Cape Town, 22 May 2007.

12. Principally, these are: Alegi and Bolsmann, South Africa and the Global Game; Nauright, Long Run to Freedom; Merrett, Sport, Space and Segregation; Desai, The Race to Transform.

13. David Black's sterling account of the international dimensions of the anti-apartheid sport movement is a notable exception in this regard. See Black, ‘“Not Cricket”’.