South Africa: From Apartheid Struggles Over Sport to Black Lives Matter Protests

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Peter Hain and André Odendaal write about their book, 'Pitch Battles: Sport, racism and resistance', published by Jonathan Ball on 1 December.

Five decades ago, in the British winter of 1969-70, mass demonstrations and field invasions during the whites-only South African Springbok rugby tour disrupted the cosy relationship between elites from the two nations and shone global attention on apartheid in sport.

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