A matter of life and death? : the Western Province Football Board and the implementation of the double standards resolution

This dissertation focuses on assessing and questioning the perceived 'politicisation' of the non-racial South African Council on Sport (SACOS) in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Through an institutional case study of the organisation's largest provincial football association (the Western Province Football Board (WPFB)) and its implementation of the ostensibly political Double Standards resolution, it re-examines the concept that politics captured the sports movement. Instead it is argued that sporting impetuses based in a desire for institutional survival retained primacy within the Board's decision making. In fact primarily, political ideologies were utilised to deliver sporting goals and not the other way around. This analysis is then extrapolated to demonstrate far-reaching conclusions around the relationship of sport and politics, Coloured identity and the meaning of the anti-Apartheid movement.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Department of Historical Studies

Year dc:date.issued

2015

Author dc:creator

• Kahn, Ryan

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Bickford-Smith, Vivian

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20060

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/20060