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Right Wing Terrorism and the World Cup

Of all of the talk about possible crime, violence, and terrorism at the World Cup, little attention has been paid to what I believe to be one of the most likely sources of disruption: the racist radical white right-wing. The South African Police Service seems to have come around to this view as well, raiding the “Suidlanders,” an extremist organization that apparently was planning to disrupt the World Cup.

 

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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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