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Sport, politics and black athletics in South Africa during the apartheid era: a political-sociological perspective
(Faculty of the Humanities, University of the Free State, 2016)
The article examines the relationship between sport and politics in South Africa from a political-sociological perspective, with a specific focus on the status of black athletics in apartheid South Africa. The narrower ...
The political sociology of power in sport: a comparative analysis of the 1956 and 1981 Springbok rugby tours to New Zealand
(Faculty of Humanities, University of the Free State, 2011)
The political sociology of power in sport has been undervalued as a field of study for many years. The predominant reason for this phenomenon is that the “innocence” of sport as a power politics vehicle shields the ...
Patronage, state capture and oligopolistic monopoly in South Africa: the slide from a weak to a dysfunctional state?
(University of the Free State, 2017)
The aim of the article is to investigate the phenomenon
of state capture from a political perspective. In the
literature, discussions around state capture are
principally done from an economic context, not from a
political ...
Legislative immobility and judicial activism: the impact on the separation of powers in South Africa
(Faculty of Humanities, University of the Free State, 2013)
The division between the legislature/executive and the judiciary in a constitutional state is a very
important, but precarious relationship. It is important that the political arm (legislature/executive)
understand the ...
Equality and freedom in South Africa: creating a democratic paradox?
(University of the Free State, 2012)
English: South Africa’s democratic transformation from authoritarian rule to a constitutional democracy was a dramatic legal revolution that signalled the end of parliamentary sovereignty and its replacement by a supreme ...
Monuments and meaning making: Freedom Park and the bumpy road to reconciliation and nation-building in South Africa
(Faculty of Humanities, University of the Free State, 2012)
On Salvokop, just south of Pretoria, a new memorial in the form of an open park (Freedom Park) was
established to honour those who had sacrificed their lives in the struggle for freedom and humanity, but
also to enhance ...
South Africa's constitutional development: a matter of Machiavelli's Prince and Hobbes' Leviathan rather than Montesquieu's Spirit of the laws?
(Faculty of Humanities, University of the Free State, 2010)
The democratisation and constitutional development of South Africa from a dominant parliament to a new constitutional order with a supreme constitution, was a significant development in the country’s constitutional ...
South Africa’s constitutional development: a matter of Machiavelli’s Prince and Hobbes’ Leviathan rather than Montesquieu’s Spirit of the laws?
(Faculty of the Humanities, University of the Free State, 2010-09)
The democratisation and constitutional development of South Africa from a dominant parliament to a new constitutional order with a supreme constitution, was a significant development in the country’s constitutional ...
South Africa after 20 years of democracy: a case study
(University of the Free State, 2016)
The two decades spanning the end of the 20th and the
start of the 21st Century were important phases in the
global process of democratisation. The 1990s were
epitomised by the ground-breaking 1991 publication of
Samuel ...
The political sociology of power in sport: a comparative analysis of the 1956 and 1981 Springbok rugby tours to New Zealand
(Faculty of the Humanities, University of the Free State, 2011-06)
The political sociology of power in sport has been undervalued as a field of study for many years. The predominant reason for this phenomenon is that the “innocence” of sport as a power politics vehicle shields the ...