Pitch Battles: Sport, Racism and Resistance

by Peter Hain and André Odendaal

Book Overview

"There will be a black Springbok over my dead body."

-- Dr Danie Craven, President of the South African Rugby Board, 1969

Just a year after the controversial D'Oliveira affair, the organised disruption of the all-white 1969/70 South African rugby and cricket tours to Britain represented a significant challenge to apartheid politics. Led by future cabinet minister Peter Hain, the 'Stop the Seventy Tour' campaign brought about...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1786615231
• ISBN13: 9781786615237
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"