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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 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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
The Comrades Marathon and politics - a long and winding road
(Faculty of Humanities, University of the Free State, 2009)
Abstract not available
Uti possidetis versus self-determination: Orania and an independent "volkstaat"
(Faculty of Humanities, University of the Free State, 2008)
Abstract not available
Parliamentary whips in the modern era: a parliamentary necessity or a historical relic?
(Faculty of the Humanities, University of the Free State, 2014)
In the academic literature, very little has been done to chronicle the history and the development of
whips in legislatures (parliaments). The lack of material on whips is in spite of the fact that, in political
and ...
Monuments and meaning making: Freedom Park and the bumpy road to reconciliation and nation-building in South Africa
(Faculty of the Humanities, University of the Free State, 2012-06)
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 ...
Raising the crossbar: power politics and the role values and self-interest in sport
(Faculty of Humanities, University of the Free State, 2013)
Within the broader ambit of sport the organisation and administration of athletics have been
underpinned or driven by strong opposing undercurrents such as self-interests and basic values such
as fairness and equality. ...