The Oval World is the first full-length history of rugby on a world scale–from its origins in the
village-based football games of medieval times up to the globalised sport of the twenty-first …

Women's rugby in South Africa is a recent development. Inaugurated four years after the
professionalisation of the men's game in 1997, the 'Springbok Women'national team faced …

Names: Gennaro, Michael (Michael J.), editor.| Aderinto, Saheed, editor. Title: Sports in
African history, politics, and identity formation/edited by Michael J. Gennaro and Saheed …

In the period from1976 to1990 during the international campaign against apartheid, some
affiliate members of the USA Rugby Football Union, went out of their way to establish and …

During the 1970s, a number of prominent British and Irish footballers–the likes of which
included Gordon Banks, George Best, Bobby Charlton, Geoff Hurst and Bobby Moore …

This article presents a conceptual analysis of the relations between language, ethnicity, and
nationalism–within the domain of the university. While an analytical distinction is commonly …

Robben Island as a space for collective political “resignification,” where new visions of
society were formulated and practiced, directly challenges John Carlin's individualistic …

This study has been positioned as a contribution to the emerging literature relating to issues
of transformation in South African sport by exploring historical change in the demographics …