Table of Contents

The making of modern South African history and sport; imperial games - the emergence of white-dominated sport in South Africa; respectability, urban culture and the development of modern sport in South Africa's black communities; white-tribe dreaming - rugby, politics and white identities in "white" South Africa 1948-1990; the development of soccer and urban black culture and identity; "no normal sport in an abnormal society" - apartheid, the rise of non-racial sport and international boycott movements 1958-1990; South Africa in union? - sport "unity", identities and the Rainbow Nation; the burden of the past - (re)presentation, history, sport and society in the Rainbow Nation.