Sport Past and Present in South Africa by Scarlett Cornelissen Albert Grundlingh

Author:Scarlett Cornelissen, Albert Grundlingh [Scarlett Cornelissen, Albert Grundlingh]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781317988588
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Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011-10-08T00:00:00+00:00

Note on contributor

Chris Bolsmann teaches sociology in the School of Languages and Social Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham in the United Kingdom.

Notes

1. Earlier versions of this article were presented at the North American Society for Sports History, Asheville, North Carolina, 22–25 May 2009 and the third Sport, Race and Ethnicity Conference, ‘Beyond Boundaries: Race and Ethnicity in Modern Sport’, Cave Hill, Barbados, 15–18 July 2010. I would like to thank Karel Schoeman in particular for sharing his wonderful insights with me on numerous occasions. In addition a number of people assisted in gathering material and commenting on earlier versions of this paper. They include: Peter Alegi, Ken Cohen, Bob Edgar, Lloyd Hill, Emmanuelle Labeau, Ian Nannestad, André Odendaal, Rothea Pelser, Ben Shepard, Phil Vasili and a number of club historians. A limitation in this article is the lack of African perspectives. Only interviews conducted with Joseph Twayi were published in the British press, while nothing seems to have been published in South Africa. The author met with Vuzi Twayi, the great-grandson of Joseph in Bloemfontein in May 2009 and Sandile Twayi, the grandson in June 2010 but both were unable to shed any new evidence or insights on their grandfather, great-grandfather and the touring team.

2. In any analysis of South Africa a consideration of the use of racial categories and terminology is necessary. A range of derogatory racial terms were used and these include ‘kaffir’, ‘native’ and ‘nigger’, among others. For the purposes of this analysis I have used these words in direct quotations.

3. Scottish Sport, 19 September 1899.

4. Odendaal, ‘South Africa’s Black Victorians’; see also Odendaal, The Story of an African Game; and Thomas, Sport and Liberation in South Africa.

5. See in particular Alegi, Laduma! and Alegi and Bolsmann, South Africa and the Global Game.

6. Parker, South African Sports, 86, 89; Hill, ‘Football as Code’.

7. Gibson and Pickford, Football and the Men who Made It, 233.

8. Alegi, Laduma!, 16.

9. Couzens, ‘An Introduction to the History of Football in South Africa’, 203.

10. Diamond Fields Advertiser, 6 October 1892.

11. The Cape Argus, 14 August 1894.

12. Parker, South African Sports, 86.

13. Ibid.; De Express en Oranjevrijstatsche Advertentieblad, 26 August 1890.

14. The Friend of the Free State and Bloemfontein Gazette, 12 September 1890.

15. The Friend of the Free State and Bloemfontein Gazette, 22 September 1891.

16. The Friend of the Free State and Bloemfontein Gazette, 26 April 1892.

17. Heilbron defeated Bethlehem 7–0 and Lindley 2–0.

18. For discussion on the Corinthian Football Club see Creek, A History of the Corinthian Football Club, and Cavallini, Play Up Corinth.

19. Jackson, Association Football.

20. The Friend of the Free State and Bloemfontein Gazette, 6 August 1897.

21. There was also a sizeable English-speaking community in the Orange Free State that would have participated in and promoted the spread of the game. See Malan, Die Rol van J. Geo. Fraser.

22. The Friend of the Free State and Bloemfontein Gazette, 3 September 1897.

23. Odendaal, ‘South Africa’s Black Victorians’, 196.

24. Ibid., 197.

25. Ibid., 198.

26. Ibid., 199.

27. The Friend of the Free State and Bloemfontein Gazette, 10 July 1891 and 28 January 1896.

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