It’s no secret that marginalisation, among many other injustices, was a norm in apartheid South Africa, and sport was no exception.
Durban author and UKZN research professor Mohamed Saleem Badat’s latest book, Tennis, Apartheid and Social Justice: The First Non-racial International Tennis Tour, 1971, explores tennis and social injustice.
Badat said he combined tennis with apartheid and social justice to challenge the amnesia and sanitised histories of the post-1994 period.
“Much of my writing is on the struggles for freedom and social justice that it aroused. This book examines apartheid