Zone d'identification
Cote
Titre
Date(s)
- 1969-2005 (Production)
Niveau de description
collection
Étendue matérielle et support
Work in progress.
Zone du contexte
Nom du producteur
Histoire administrative
The Non-Racial Sports History Project was formed in June 2015. Its primary mandate is to record the histories of non-racial sport from the ground up clubs and their administrators and players, provincial and then national ,paying special attention to the role played by women. While our main focus is on the histories of non-racial sport before the unity talks and the advent of democracy in 1994, we are also interested in recording the stories of community sports in all areas but more especially where there was a tradition of non-racial sport before 1994.
We see the project as contributing to the revival of the ethos that characterized the non-racial movement. To this end, some of the main objectives of the project are:
- Revive the concept of community sport (which represents the majority of our population ) compared to professional sport.
- Actively to promote and support the formation of community based sporting bodies.
- Safeguard and secure the future of amateur sport.
- Where there is an interest, to assist in the revival of sporting codes that are currently dormant.
- Where possible to assist those who were active in non-racial sport and who have fallen on hard times.
- To acknowledge the role played by sportspeople for the struggle for non-racial sport
- Finally, to revive the spirit of voluntarism and non-racialism.
Histoire archivistique
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
An important part of our history that has seriously been neglected is non-racial sports. This was a crucial facet of the anti-apartheid struggle and, crucially, was probably the most effective arena of independent and community-based sports in black communities. Moreover, non-racial sports was intrinsically linked to communities and their schools, and depended heavily on voluntarism for its enduring success.
This project aims to recover, record, preserve and popularize this rich and multi-faceted history as an ongoing narrative.
One of the main role players, the South African Council on Sport (SACOS) was formed on 17 March 1973 to co-ordinate the fight against racial discrimination in sport and to promote non-racial sport in a non-racial and democratic SA.It consisted of 24 national non-racial sports organisations and 11 co-ordination Provincial Councils of Sport,of which the Transvaal Council of Sport (TRACOS) was one of them.
Évaluation, élimination et calendrier de conservation
Accroissements
Mode de classement
This collection is a work in progress. Some of the descriptions in the collections structure are envisaged as possible additions, and have for now only been added as an entry. The organizers are hoping to encourage former role players to deposit more archival items over time.
Items are not always presented in chronological order, because they are added to the collection as they are being received in physical or digital format.
Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation
Conditions d’accès
Conditions de reproduction
Permission has to be obtained from the Non-Racial Sports History Project.
Langue des documents
Écriture des documents
Notes de langue et graphie
Caractéristiques matérielle et contraintes techniques
Instruments de recherche
The inventory for this collection remains a work in progress and will be uploaded in PDF format in its updated version from time to time. The archival descriptions however are updated on an ongoing basis.
Instrument de recherche téléversé
Zone des sources complémentaires
Existence et lieu de conservation des originaux
Existence et lieu de conservation des copies
Unités de description associées
Zone des notes
Note
The digitisation of this collection is ongoing and the display of digitised items becomes available as each section is completed, or as they are received in digital format.