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Physical education in the coloured community of theWestern Cape, 1837-1966
Abstract
Throughout the period under review, issues of race and class were major areas of concern in South African physical education programmes.
Initially these programmes were the result of middle-class colonial society attempting to inculcate their values into the urban poor in order to maintain hegemonic control. This is understood against a backdrop of racism
displayed by Whites in the broader society towards Coloured persons during the 19 th and 20th centuries. Such racism was not only confined
to White and Coloured relations but was also internalised by Coloured people, and physical education programmes were a part of this.
Initially these programmes were the result of middle-class colonial society attempting to inculcate their values into the urban poor in order to maintain hegemonic control. This is understood against a backdrop of racism
displayed by Whites in the broader society towards Coloured persons during the 19 th and 20th centuries. Such racism was not only confined
to White and Coloured relations but was also internalised by Coloured people, and physical education programmes were a part of this.
