Hendrik Snyders
Biographic Data
| ID | 292474 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hendrik Snyders |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hendrik |
| FAMILY NAME | Snyders |
| SIGNATURE | SNYDERS H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stellenbosch University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8630-4122 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Domestic Political Intersections of the South African Community’s “Expression of Solidarity” with the Hungarian Refugee Crisis, 1956–1957
The violent repression of the Hungarian revolution by the Soviet military forces during October-November 1956 turned four per cent (4%) of the national population into refugees needing social relief from distress and a new home. While some countries condemned Soviet aggression and refused recognition to the successor government installed by the occupational forces, others rendered a mass assistance program and granted temporary and permanent asyl…
“A Distinctly Busy Man” – Lieutenant Colonel (Dr) Frederick Holles Brennan, First Officer Commanding of the 1st South African Irish Regiment, 1861–1927
Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Holles Brennan, formerly the commanding officer of the 1 st South African Irish Regiment, medical officer of the Transvaal Volunteers, surgeon to the Hawarden Castle hospital ship and recipient of the Volunteer Officer’s Decoration and Long Service Medal during active service, is a forgotten name in South African military history today. Canadian-born Brennan, a qualified medical doctor, emigrated to South Africa durin…
Regaining Lost Ground and Countering the Anti-Apartheid Sports Movement: The Committee for Fairness in Sport (CFFS), Bureau of State Security (Boss), and the International Sports Boycott, 1973-1978
Because of the determined effort of the anti-apartheid movement to secure South Africa's expulsion from the international sports arena, the Bureau of State Security (BOSS) established the Committee for Fairness in Sport (CFFS) in 1973. This front organization was tasked with the promotion of South Africa's sports bona fides internationally. Beyond the regular publication of progress reports about integrated sports in targeted newspapers, CFFS sup…
‘Boxing Ring To Bowling Rink’ – Thomas Holdstock, Former Amateur and Professional Sportsman of Bloemfontein
Pommel Horse Rebels and Apartheid’s Friends’ – American Gymnasts and the International Anti-Apartheid Sports Boycott Against South Africa, 1970–1990
Following the global rejection of apartheid, from 1970–1990, South Africa was both expelled and suspended from membership from a significant number of international sports federations, including the International Gymnastics Federation. Confronted with isolation from the international arena, the South African Gymnastics Union initiated a series of unsanctioned ‘rebel tours’ involving both leading and emerging countries. The United States of Americ…
Fortuitous circumstances?” John Owen Smith and the art of nineteenth-century colonial wealth accumulation
A former British immigrant, John Owen Smith was one of the nineteenth century \nCape Colony’s most prominent businesspersons. With interests in \nguano trading, farming, shipping, property development, auctioneering and \narms trading, he enjoyed a high measure of prosperity and respectability. This \nresulted from the deliberate employment of several interlinked and often \ninnovative wealth accumulation strategies. Through the skillful utilisat…
Scientific exponent of the art’ or ‘punching bag in chocolate’: Colonialism, race and precarity in the prizefighting and boxing career of Joe ‘Young Pluto’ Brown, c. 1872–1931
Boxing and its predecessor, prizefighting, is a form of precarious labour and forms part of a broader field of work that young itinerant black men could participate in during the nineteenth century. Practised in an era of institutionalised racism, it was characterised by exploitative working arrangements and a high degree of precarity. These forces, encountered in North America, the British Empire and Europe, fundamentally shaped the careers of t…
“A partnership in the challenges facing us”- Apartheid and South African-Israeli rugby relations, c. 1948 – 1989
By all accounts, South Africans played a critical role in the establishment and development of rugby in Israel from the 1950s onwards. According to the available evidence, a formal relationship between the South African Rugby Football Board and the Israel Rugby Football Union was only concluded 20 years later. Because of this friendship, various reciprocal exchange tours involving both university and provincial rugby union teams and the Israeli n…
Changing lifestyles, business, and the politics of the nineteenth-century Cape ice and refrigeration trade
The involvement of Cape businessmen in the ice or frozen water trade, \nand their contribution to its globalisation during the nineteenth century, is \na neglected aspect of South Africa’s water history. During the period 1840 \nup to the outbreak of the Anglo-Boer (South African) War, Cape Townbased \nexpatriate American and British citizen-businessmen launched at \nleast three attempts to establish a profitable local trade in ice-making and \ni…
Little More than Rich Soil?”: The Anatomy and Politics of the Cape Bat Guano Trade, 1890–1920
The bat guano trade, although a small, localised, and secondary enterprise was as significant for the nineteenth and early twentieth century Cape fertiliser trade as its more lucrative and prominent counterpart, the seabird guano trade. Located in relatively inaccessible and geographically dispersed caves on the Southern Cape coast and following a long struggle to be acknowledged as a useful fertiliser, the product became part of and contributed …
In the Interest of Reporting the Facts, and Not the Fiction, of South African Sport’: Race, Netball, and the Struggle for Social Justice in South Africa
Despite its national footprint, netball is a largely neglected area of South African sports history. Its intersections with race, gender and apartheid, the black struggle for social justice, international boycotts, rebel tours and local politics in general, remained an unmapped landscape. Unsurprisingly, this aided the construction and persistence of several myths about apartheid netball. This study debunks the existing myths and foregrounds the …
An Honour, Rather than a Disgrace’: Song Koon Poh, Apartheid Rugby, Tokkie’s Dragons and the Politics of Dissent and Confession
Singaporean rugby player Song Koon Poh is a marginal figure in international sports history. Due to his involvement in a rebel tour to apartheid South Africa in 1982 in contravention of the Gleneagles Agreement, the player received a life ban as a dissenter. Consequently, his version of events became part of the marginalization that often characterized the life story of those that pursue their own course irrespective of the consequences. However,…
"Proceed to some other port where our flag may fly in air that is not tainted with the stench of apartheid" - The intersection between the domestic and international anti-apartheid campaign and Americ…
The introduction of apartheid in 1948 with its extensive suite of discriminatory laws, had a wide-ranging impact on South Africa’s international relations. Despite an ever-growing global anti-apartheid movement and calls for the country’s total isolation, the country succeeded in maintaining naval relations with several nations. As a result, it frequently hosted shipping crews from Europe and Northern America, mostly on flag-displaying missions. …
Preventing a silent wilderness, securing the economic bounty” – Cape guano and the politics of seabird protection during the 19th and early 20th century
The Cape Colony, after Peru, was the second-most-important supplier of seabird guano to commercial farmers on a worldwide scale during the nineteenth century. Despite the obvious benefits of selling guano licenses and leases to exploit various offshore islands within the Cape’s colonial waters for the colonial treasury at a time of decreasing imperial funding, successive administrations placed no restrictions over the harvesting of these spaces. …
Guanopreneurs and the dynamics of policymaking in the Cape Colony, 1843-1845
Having identified an opportunity to extract significant income from selling guano, a popular and profitable natural fertiliser, from individual islands within its territorial waters, the Cape colonial administration established loading infrastructure and promulgated a new policy to prevent an uncontrolled rush during the mid-19th century. Given the uneven power relations between the administration and its citizenry and the lack of genuinely repre…
An Outrage, Not Athletics’: Apartheid and South African–United States Rugby Relations, 1976–1990
In the period from1976 to1990 during the international campaign against apartheid, some affiliate members of the USA Rugby Football Union, went out of their way to establish and maintain a strong relationship with the South African Rugby Football Board and its successor, the South African Rugby Board. Over the course of six reciprocal tours, they ignored the campaigns of the worldwide anti-apartheid movement and the British Commonwealth. In their…
Fear of hunger and the stench of disease’: Guano, Nuisance Management and Public Health Struggles in the Cape Colony, c.1840–1910
Following an environmental infertility crisis, guano fertilisation became an important part of Cape colonial agriculture in the nineteenth century. Collected from various offshore islands, guanopreneurs initially exported the product directly to its main markets in Europe and America. Because of a strong local demand for state-subsidised guano, a central storage facility for mixing and dispatch was established in Cape Town in 1890. In addition, a…
From Peru to Ichaboe: The dynamics of a shifting guano frontier, 1840–5
The guano frontier originated as a geographic space for a socio-cultural resource central to the identity, lifestyle and worldview of the indigenous Peruvians. Colonisation in combination with advances in understandings of plant nutrition and fertiliser science, however, shifted guano’s meaning from its original roots and turned it into a globally tradable commodity. The geographical frontier, under the influence of post-independence politics and…
An Americanised issue with no place in South Africa?’ – rodeo sports, muscular and cultural identity and animal rights in urban South Africa
Prior to 1980, rodeo events in South Africa were either organised as entrepreneurial ventures or as public displays for their spectacle value. With the establishment of the Rodeo Association of South Africa (RASA) in 1979 and the hosting of its inaugural event on 1 January 1980 in the city of Vanderbijlpark, rodeo in South Africa officially became a sport, and a new era was inaugurated. In 2003 the Working Cowboys Association (WCA), an organisati…
Preventing Huddersfield’: The rise and decline of rugby league in South Africa, c .1957–1965
Despite an early interest in the code among locals, an official history of rugby league in South Africa as well as a comprehensive historiography of the code is still lacking. This research is a first attempt to rectify the situation. Following the continuous migration of local rugby union players to rugby league clubs in northern England for over 50 years, rugby league was introduced into South Africa as entrepreneurial ventures during the mid-1…
Preventing a silent wilderness, securing the economic bounty” – Cape guano and the politics of seabird protection during the 19th and early 20th century
The Cape Colony, after Peru, was the second-most-important supplier of seabird guano to commercial farmers on a worldwide scale during the nineteenth century. Despite the obvious benefits of selling guano licenses and leases to exploit various offshore islands within the Cape’s colonial waters for the colonial treasury at a time of decreasing imperial funding, successive administrations placed no restrictions over the harvesting of these spaces. …
Preventing Huddersfield’: The rise and decline of rugby league in South Africa, c .1957–1965
Despite an early interest in the code among locals, an official history of rugby league in South Africa as well as a comprehensive historiography of the code is still lacking. This research is a first attempt to rectify the situation. Following the continuous migration of local rugby union players to rugby league clubs in northern England for over 50 years, rugby league was introduced into South Africa as entrepreneurial ventures during the mid-1…
An Americanised issue with no place in South Africa?’ – rodeo sports, muscular and cultural identity and animal rights in urban South Africa
Prior to 1980, rodeo events in South Africa were either organised as entrepreneurial ventures or as public displays for their spectacle value. With the establishment of the Rodeo Association of South Africa (RASA) in 1979 and the hosting of its inaugural event on 1 January 1980 in the city of Vanderbijlpark, rodeo in South Africa officially became a sport, and a new era was inaugurated. In 2003 the Working Cowboys Association (WCA), an organisati…
From Peru to Ichaboe: The dynamics of a shifting guano frontier, 1840–5
The guano frontier originated as a geographic space for a socio-cultural resource central to the identity, lifestyle and worldview of the indigenous Peruvians. Colonisation in combination with advances in understandings of plant nutrition and fertiliser science, however, shifted guano’s meaning from its original roots and turned it into a globally tradable commodity. The geographical frontier, under the influence of post-independence politics and…
An Outrage, Not Athletics’: Apartheid and South African–United States Rugby Relations, 1976–1990
In the period from1976 to1990 during the international campaign against apartheid, some affiliate members of the USA Rugby Football Union, went out of their way to establish and maintain a strong relationship with the South African Rugby Football Board and its successor, the South African Rugby Board. Over the course of six reciprocal tours, they ignored the campaigns of the worldwide anti-apartheid movement and the British Commonwealth. In their…
Fear of hunger and the stench of disease’: Guano, Nuisance Management and Public Health Struggles in the Cape Colony, c.1840–1910
Following an environmental infertility crisis, guano fertilisation became an important part of Cape colonial agriculture in the nineteenth century. Collected from various offshore islands, guanopreneurs initially exported the product directly to its main markets in Europe and America. Because of a strong local demand for state-subsidised guano, a central storage facility for mixing and dispatch was established in Cape Town in 1890. In addition, a…
Guanopreneurs and the dynamics of policymaking in the Cape Colony, 1843-1845
Having identified an opportunity to extract significant income from selling guano, a popular and profitable natural fertiliser, from individual islands within its territorial waters, the Cape colonial administration established loading infrastructure and promulgated a new policy to prevent an uncontrolled rush during the mid-19th century. Given the uneven power relations between the administration and its citizenry and the lack of genuinely repre…
"Proceed to some other port where our flag may fly in air that is not tainted with the stench of apartheid" - The intersection between the domestic and international anti-apartheid campaign and Americ…
The introduction of apartheid in 1948 with its extensive suite of discriminatory laws, had a wide-ranging impact on South Africa’s international relations. Despite an ever-growing global anti-apartheid movement and calls for the country’s total isolation, the country succeeded in maintaining naval relations with several nations. As a result, it frequently hosted shipping crews from Europe and Northern America, mostly on flag-displaying missions. …
Preventing a silent wilderness, securing the economic bounty” – Cape guano and the politics of seabird protection during the 19th and early 20th century
The Cape Colony, after Peru, was the second-most-important supplier of seabird guano to commercial farmers on a worldwide scale during the nineteenth century. Despite the obvious benefits of selling guano licenses and leases to exploit various offshore islands within the Cape’s colonial waters for the colonial treasury at a time of decreasing imperial funding, successive administrations placed no restrictions over the harvesting of these spaces. …
“A partnership in the challenges facing us”- Apartheid and South African-Israeli rugby relations, c. 1948 – 1989
By all accounts, South Africans played a critical role in the establishment and development of rugby in Israel from the 1950s onwards. According to the available evidence, a formal relationship between the South African Rugby Football Board and the Israel Rugby Football Union was only concluded 20 years later. Because of this friendship, various reciprocal exchange tours involving both university and provincial rugby union teams and the Israeli n…
Changing lifestyles, business, and the politics of the nineteenth-century Cape ice and refrigeration trade
The involvement of Cape businessmen in the ice or frozen water trade, \nand their contribution to its globalisation during the nineteenth century, is \na neglected aspect of South Africa’s water history. During the period 1840 \nup to the outbreak of the Anglo-Boer (South African) War, Cape Townbased \nexpatriate American and British citizen-businessmen launched at \nleast three attempts to establish a profitable local trade in ice-making and \ni…
Little More than Rich Soil?”: The Anatomy and Politics of the Cape Bat Guano Trade, 1890–1920
The bat guano trade, although a small, localised, and secondary enterprise was as significant for the nineteenth and early twentieth century Cape fertiliser trade as its more lucrative and prominent counterpart, the seabird guano trade. Located in relatively inaccessible and geographically dispersed caves on the Southern Cape coast and following a long struggle to be acknowledged as a useful fertiliser, the product became part of and contributed …
In the Interest of Reporting the Facts, and Not the Fiction, of South African Sport’: Race, Netball, and the Struggle for Social Justice in South Africa
Despite its national footprint, netball is a largely neglected area of South African sports history. Its intersections with race, gender and apartheid, the black struggle for social justice, international boycotts, rebel tours and local politics in general, remained an unmapped landscape. Unsurprisingly, this aided the construction and persistence of several myths about apartheid netball. This study debunks the existing myths and foregrounds the …
An Honour, Rather than a Disgrace’: Song Koon Poh, Apartheid Rugby, Tokkie’s Dragons and the Politics of Dissent and Confession
Singaporean rugby player Song Koon Poh is a marginal figure in international sports history. Due to his involvement in a rebel tour to apartheid South Africa in 1982 in contravention of the Gleneagles Agreement, the player received a life ban as a dissenter. Consequently, his version of events became part of the marginalization that often characterized the life story of those that pursue their own course irrespective of the consequences. However,…
Fortuitous circumstances?” John Owen Smith and the art of nineteenth-century colonial wealth accumulation
A former British immigrant, John Owen Smith was one of the nineteenth century \nCape Colony’s most prominent businesspersons. With interests in \nguano trading, farming, shipping, property development, auctioneering and \narms trading, he enjoyed a high measure of prosperity and respectability. This \nresulted from the deliberate employment of several interlinked and often \ninnovative wealth accumulation strategies. Through the skillful utilisat…
Scientific exponent of the art’ or ‘punching bag in chocolate’: Colonialism, race and precarity in the prizefighting and boxing career of Joe ‘Young Pluto’ Brown, c. 1872–1931
Boxing and its predecessor, prizefighting, is a form of precarious labour and forms part of a broader field of work that young itinerant black men could participate in during the nineteenth century. Practised in an era of institutionalised racism, it was characterised by exploitative working arrangements and a high degree of precarity. These forces, encountered in North America, the British Empire and Europe, fundamentally shaped the careers of t…
‘Boxing Ring To Bowling Rink’ – Thomas Holdstock, Former Amateur and Professional Sportsman of Bloemfontein
Pommel Horse Rebels and Apartheid’s Friends’ – American Gymnasts and the International Anti-Apartheid Sports Boycott Against South Africa, 1970–1990
Following the global rejection of apartheid, from 1970–1990, South Africa was both expelled and suspended from membership from a significant number of international sports federations, including the International Gymnastics Federation. Confronted with isolation from the international arena, the South African Gymnastics Union initiated a series of unsanctioned ‘rebel tours’ involving both leading and emerging countries. The United States of Americ…
Domestic Political Intersections of the South African Community’s “Expression of Solidarity” with the Hungarian Refugee Crisis, 1956–1957
The violent repression of the Hungarian revolution by the Soviet military forces during October-November 1956 turned four per cent (4%) of the national population into refugees needing social relief from distress and a new home. While some countries condemned Soviet aggression and refused recognition to the successor government installed by the occupational forces, others rendered a mass assistance program and granted temporary and permanent asyl…
“A Distinctly Busy Man” – Lieutenant Colonel (Dr) Frederick Holles Brennan, First Officer Commanding of the 1st South African Irish Regiment, 1861–1927
Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Holles Brennan, formerly the commanding officer of the 1 st South African Irish Regiment, medical officer of the Transvaal Volunteers, surgeon to the Hawarden Castle hospital ship and recipient of the Volunteer Officer’s Decoration and Long Service Medal during active service, is a forgotten name in South African military history today. Canadian-born Brennan, a qualified medical doctor, emigrated to South Africa durin…
Regaining Lost Ground and Countering the Anti-Apartheid Sports Movement: The Committee for Fairness in Sport (CFFS), Bureau of State Security (Boss), and the International Sports Boycott, 1973-1978
Because of the determined effort of the anti-apartheid movement to secure South Africa's expulsion from the international sports arena, the Bureau of State Security (BOSS) established the Committee for Fairness in Sport (CFFS) in 1973. This front organization was tasked with the promotion of South Africa's sports bona fides internationally. Beyond the regular publication of progress reports about integrated sports in targeted newspapers, CFFS sup…
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