Are we really winning in using sport to unite, uplift nation?

By Opinion | Published Nov 14, 2023

Mphumzi MdekaziIn a compelling analysis of identity and nationhood in post-apartheid South Africa published shortly after the country's hosting of the 2010 World Cup, South African sociologist Neville Alexander provocatively posed a question. He asked whether the country’s recent political trajectories suggested that “a new historical community” was being fashioned – one in which the racial divisions of the apartheid past had been transcended, the liberation ideals of class and other equalities. . .