Race Politics: Horse Racing, Identity and Power in South Africa

2017 ◽  
pp. 241-266
Author(s):  
Sandra Swart
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Horse Racing ◽  
Race Politics

scholarly journals The Two Lives of Sara Baartman: Gender, “Race,” Politics and the Historiography of Mis/Representation

1969 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 337-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew P. Lyons
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
African American ◽  
Scientific Racism ◽  
Race Politics ◽  
Pan African ◽  
The Right

The story of Sara Baartman, the so-called Hottentot Venus, who was exhibited in both London and Paris at the beginning of the nineteenth century, is part of the long narrative of scientific racism. In the years preceding and succeeding her return to South Africa from the museum in Paris where her brain and genitals were stored, her story has been told and retold countless times by anti-racist white (and predominantly male) scholars, Pan-African anti-apartheid activists, many of them feminists, African-American scholars, and scholars who claim a particular ethnic status within the Rainbow Nation. There has been much controversy concerning the right to tell Baartman's story and the images that may or may not accompany such narration. An attempt is made to explain why this is so.

scholarly journals The horse racing industry and the efficient markets hypothesis

1987 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-40
Author(s):  
J. F. Affleck-Graves ◽  
A. H. Money ◽  
K. Miedema
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Weak Form ◽  
Efficient Market Hypothesis ◽  
Efficient Markets ◽  
Horse Racing ◽  
Inside Information ◽  
Small Deviations ◽  
Investment Returns ◽  
Efficient Markets Hypothesis ◽  
Better Than

Betting on the racetrack and investing in the stockmarket have many characteristics in common. These similarities are discussed in this paper and the applicability of efficient markets theory to the market for horse racing bets in South Africa is examined. Both the weak form and the strong form of the efficient market hypothesis are empirically tested. The results indicate support for both forms although some small deviations from the theory do exist. Most notable of these is that on average long-odds horses win less frequently than suggested by their quoted odds whilst short-odds horses win more frequently than implied by their odds. However, these weak form deviations are not sufficient to enable consistent profits to be made. The performances of ten experts with potential access to inside information are examined and the results indicate that on average they are not able to earn superior investment returns. In fact, all ten had negative returns over the period examined and only three of them did better than the naive strategy of backing the favourite.

Time and Latitude in South Africa

1972 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 27-38
Author(s):  
J. Hers
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Astronomical Observations ◽  
Royal Observatory ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Astronomical Determination ◽  
Limited Accuracy ◽  
Better Than

In South Africa the modern outlook towards time may be said to have started in 1948. Both the two major observatories, The Royal Observatory in Cape Town and the Union Observatory (now known as the Republic Observatory) in Johannesburg had, of course, been involved in the astronomical determination of time almost from their inception, and the Johannesburg Observatory has been responsible for the official time of South Africa since 1908. However the pendulum clocks then in use could not be relied on to provide an accuracy better than about 1/10 second, which was of the same order as that of the astronomical observations. It is doubtful if much use was made of even this limited accuracy outside the two observatories, and although there may – occasionally have been a demand for more accurate time, it was certainly not voiced.

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