ABSTRACT
The World Bank, with its large in-country contingent of economists, researchers and trainers, is making private-sector partnerships the service norm. Godfrey Huggins, Prime Minister of Rhodesia between 1933 and 1956, expressed a similar sentiment in the 1950s, suggesting that the whites and blacks of Rhodesia lived in ‘partnership’, adding the ugly qualification that this was akin to the partnership ‘between the horse and its rider’. During the 1930s the Native Affairs Department organised black cricket teams and in 1933 the Chamber of Mines had donated a cup to Bantu cricket, The Native Recruiting Corporation trophy. Black cricket, however, remained largely invisible to the cricket public outside of and, to a significant degree, within South Africa itself. The politics of South African cricket during the 1970s were characterised by a series of initiatives and quasi-initiatives designed to promote multiracial cricket. Changes in South African cricket governance were accompanied by broader adjustments in racial legislation.
