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Dogfighting in South Africa

Some of you may be familiar with the gruesome and depressing dogfighting story of NFL star Michael Vick. (See here, and, if you have the stomach, follow the many links to the right of the story.) But dogfighting is a real problem in South Africa as well, as a story in today's Cape Times revealing “savage dogfighting in Stellenbosch” shows. No commentary is necessary. This is cruelty of the basest sort for which there is no excuse and no justification.

 

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Derek Catsam

Derek Catsam is a Professor of history and Kathlyn Cosper Dunagan Professor in the Humanities at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin. He is also Senior Research Associate at Rhodes University. Derek writes about race and politics in the United States and Africa, sports, and terrorism. He is currently working on books on bus boycotts in the United States and South Africa in the 1940s and 1950s and on the 1981 South African Springbok rugby team's tour to the US. He is the author of three books, dozens of scholarly articles and reviews, and has published widely on current affairs in African, American, and European publications. He has lived, worked, and travelled extensively throughout southern Africa. He writes about politics, sports, travel, pop culture, and just about anything else that comes to mind.

Areas of Focus:
Africa; Zimbabwe; South Africa; Apartheid

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