The Race to Transform

The Race to Transform: Sport in post-apartheid South Africa takes stock of sport in South Africa, and provides a pioneering exploration of how sport reflects matters such as enduring inequality, racial transformation and the making (or otherwise) of a common South African destiny.

HSRC Press

Product Information

Format:

198mm x 148mm (Soft Cover)

Pages:

264

ISBN-13:

978-07969-2319-6

Publish Year:

2010

Rights:

World Rights

Introduction: Long run to freedom? Sports in post-apartheid South Africa
Ashwin Desai
Creepy crawlies, portapools and the dam(n)s of swimming transformation
Ashwin Desai and Ahmed Veriava
Inside the house of pain: A case study of the Jaguars Rugby Club
Ashwin Desai and Zayn Nabbi
Transformation from above: The upside down state of contemporary South African soccer
Dale T. McKinley
Womens bodies & the world of football in South Africa
Prishani Naidoo and Zanele Muholi
Jumping over the hurdles: Political analysis of transformation measures in South African athletics
Justin van der Merwe
Beyond the nation? Colour and class in South African cricket
Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed
Between black and white: A case study of the KwaZulu-Natal Cricket Union (KZNCU)
Goolam Vahed, Vishnu Padayachee and Ashwin Desai

Ashwin Desai was previously a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Sociological Research at the University of Johannesburg. He is presently Associate Professor in the Sociology Department at Rhodes University. Ashwin is widely regarded as one of South Africa’s foremost social commentators. His work is internationally celebrated for its courage and clarity of vision and for its focus on the lived experience of oppression and resistance.