ABSTRACT
Politics - who are we, how do we get what we want, and why do we suffer? - provides a framework for analyzing the historical relationships between white and black South Africans, and the Afrikaners' search for exclusivity. As apartheid developed in the 1950s and 1960s, politics assumed increasingly petty, virulent and irrational forms. It became an instrument for naked suppression of black interests in every sphere, including sport.
