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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 Fo...
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/20060 A matter of life and death? : the Western Province Football Board and the implementation of the double standards resolution Kahn, Ryan Bickford-Smith, Vivian Historical Studies 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. 2016-06-21T09:25:06Z 2016-06-21T09:25:06Z 2015 Master Thesis Masters MA http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20060 eng application/pdf Department of Historical Studies Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Historical Studies Kahn, Ryan A matter of life and death? : the Western Province Football Board and the implementation of the double standards resolution |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | A matter of life and death? : the Western Province Football Board and the implementation of the double standards resolution |
| title_full | A matter of life and death? : the Western Province Football Board and the implementation of the double standards resolution |
| title_fullStr | A matter of life and death? : the Western Province Football Board and the implementation of the double standards resolution |
| title_full_unstemmed | A matter of life and death? : the Western Province Football Board and the implementation of the double standards resolution |
| title_short | A matter of life and death? : the Western Province Football Board and the implementation of the double standards resolution |
| title_sort | matter of life and death the western province football board and the implementation of the double standards resolution |
| topic | Historical Studies |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20060 |
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