
Sport In The Struggle Exhibition
While discrimination in sport based on race has been a phenomenon almost since Europeans first settled in the Cape, this denying of the right to play sports regardless of one’s race became more pronounced with the formalising of sports competitions and organising during the second half o the nineteenth century. These conditions became regulated under the National Party government in the 1950’s.
Sporting events where South Africans of different races competed against each other was outlawed, sports facilities for players and spectators were segregated, and transgressors were intimidated and forced to comply.
The Olympic principle in sport, namely that there should be no discrimination allowed in sport regardless of race, religion or political affiliation was systemically denied the majority of South Africans during Apartheid.
Countless sports people of colour suffered under this repressive system and were denied the opportunity to compete at the highest level in the sport.
The “Sport in the Struggle” exhibition is a display of prominent figures and events that reflect the role for sport in the Anti-Apartheid struggle leading up to democracy in South Africa.
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