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- Title
APARTHEID SPORT: SOUTH AFRICA'S USE OF SPORT IN ITS FOREIGN POLICY.
- Authors
Lapchick, Richard E.
- Abstract
This article presents the author's views on the sociological aspects of sports particularly, the issue of apartheid sport in South Africa and its foreign policy. The most flagrant example of the politics of international sport is the case of South Africa. The controversy surrounding the participation of South African teams in international sport also marked the shift of major concern to the politics of international sport from ideology to a new factor: race and racism. This shift was, to a large extent, influenced by the rise of the adamant refusal of the South African Government to permit integrated teams to represent their country, that is, the extension of apartheid into sport, has led to intensive global pressures and protests. In spite of those protests, South Africa was permitted to continue its international competition until 1970 when it was dismissed from almost all of the international sports federations and, most uncertainty, from the Olympic Movement itself. Apartheid, as the official Government policy, was introduced by the National Party after its victory in the 1948 election.
- Subjects
SOUTH Africa; APARTHEID; SOCIOLOGY of sports; RACISM; PREJUDICES; SPORTS philosophy; INTERNATIONAL relations
- Publication
Journal of Sport & Social Issues, 1977, Vol 1, Issue 1, p52
- ISSN
0193-7235
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/019372357700100105