South Africa and the Global Game: Football, Apartheid and Beyond

by PeterAlegi (Editor), Chris Bolsmann (Editor)

• New

  Paperback
  2012

  $47.54

• New

  Hardcover
  2010

  $147.63

  Presents an analysis of how and why South Africa underwent a remarkable transformation from a pariah in world sport to the first African host of a World Cup in 2010. This title examines the importance of football in South African society, revealing how the black oppression transformed a colonial game into a force of cultural and social liberation.