Exploring decolonising themes in SA sport history : issues and challenges

CITATION: Cleophas, F. J. 2018. Exploring decolonising themes in SA sport history : issues and challenges. Stellenbosch: SUN PReSS, doi:https://doi.org/10.18820/9781928357957.The original publication is available at https://africansunmedia.store.it.si/zaIn an effort to understand how the absences of the colonial subject in sport were engineered and how colonial narratives became fixed in the literature and minds of South Africans, this book attempts a full-scale restructuring and rewriting of the history of sport in South Africa to include black South Africans, and thereby to place them at the forefront of a colonial history. The book includes the articulations of academic researchers, professionals and retired sportspeople who explore their unique areas of interest in sport from the perspective of themes in South African sport history. They place themselves at the centre of discourses that dispel myths that blacks had no sport significance prior to 1994. The book ultimately challenges this spirit of the past where there was only one narrative – a white male sport tradition. Rather than adapting past colonial and apartheid narratives, this work seeks to fundamentally replace and supersede them.Reflections on writing a post‑colonial history of a colonial game / André Odendaal; From the editor / Francois Cleophas; Decolonising sport: Some thoughts / Lesley Le Grange; ‘Subservient jester’? ‘Gamat’ Behardien: Reinterpreting a marginal figure in South African sport history / Hendrik Snyders; Black Athletics in Cape Town prior to 1920 / Francois Cleophas; Muslim women and sport: On traversing the politics of ‘religious’ identity / Nuraan Davids; Discord in the dressing room: The ideological complexities within non-racial football during the late 1970s / Gustav Venter; From carriers to climbers: The Cape Province Mountain Club, 1930s to 1960s – an untold story / Farieda Khan; “The sound of the hickory”: Baseball, colonisation and decolonisation / Hendrik Snyders; One for the Chuck: Glimpses into the history of the Maitland-Parow and Districts Cricket Union / William Pick; The interrelatedness of ‘random’ events: Exploring what the ‘enfant terrible’ child diarist Iris Vaughan, Per Henrik Ling and Danie Craven had in common / Sigi Howes; Post-apartheid cycling history: Race, personal memory and challenges of commemoration / Charles Beukes; Sport historical significant moments in my life / Andrew September; My changing and continual life story in non-racial sport / André Alexander; Sprinting with controversy / Shaun Vester; A history of South African cross-country, middle- and long-distance running and walking / Dewald Steyn; A non-racial athletic president’s life story / Robin Aprilhttps://africansunmedia.store.it.si/za/book/exploring-decolonising-themes-in-sa-sport-history-issues-and-challenges/580267Publisher's versio