Abstract
UJ Department of Sociology, UJ SARChi Chair: African Diplomacy and
Foreign Policy and the UJ Library in partnership with Jacana Media, invite
you to a discussion about Cricket with Ashwin Desai and André Odendaal
based on the books:
Reverse Sweep: A Story of
South African Cricket Since Apartheid
Cricket and Conquest: The History of South
African Cricket Retold, Volume 1: 1795-1914
by André Odendaal, Krish Reddy, Christopher Merrett and Jonty Winch
ABOUT THE BOOKS: Reverse Sweep is an account of cricket in post-apartheid South Africa;
from the tumultuous Gatting tour in which, ironically, the seeds of cricket unity were sown, to the
Hansie Cronje saga and the change of leadership from Ali Bacher to Gerald Majola, and more
recently to Haroon Lorgat.
Cricket and Conquest and its companion volumes explain how racism came to be built into
the very fabric of cricket’s ‘culture’ and ‘traditions’, and how it was uncannily tied to the broader
historical processes that shaped South Africa. The unique experiences of our different cricket
communities are described in ways that have not been done before.
FACILITATOR: Prof Chris Landsberg, UJ
DATE: 04 April 2017
TIME: 16:30 for 17:00
VENUE: Chinua Achebe Auditorium (6th Floor), APK Library, University of Johannesburg
(corner Kingsway and University Road, Auckland Park)
RSVP by Monday, 3 April 2017 to Theodorah Modise on licevents@uj.ac.za / 011 559 2264