ABSTRACT
Set against the dynamic back-cloth of an emerging new post-apartheid South Africa nation, in this chapter we summarise how, inspired by F4P (Football 4 Peace) work that they had witnessed taking place in Israel, senior South African SDP (Sport, Development and Peace) academics and activists were inspired to take the F4P model to South Africa where, helped by experienced F4P volunteers, the model could be further developed and strengthened as yet another sport-based vehicle to help with the complex project of rebuilding the multi-cultural and multi-racial ‘Rainbow Nation’. As part of the contextual scene-setting, and drawing on personally assembled and constructed ethnographic materials supported by a large number and wide range of interviews, we give particular consideration to the impact and legacies of South Africa’s winning of the Rugby World Cup in 1995, and its hosting of the 2010 men’s football World Cup, in relation to the development of the F4P model and other SDP initiatives generated by the state and by NGO (non-governmental organisations) increasingly visible in the field.
