Wouter de Wet is a Senior Lecturer in the History Department of the University of the Free State, QwaQwa campus. He is a sports historian with a specific focus on rugby. His research interests include sports history, institutional or organizational histories, contemporary Afrikaner history, as well as twentieth century South African history. He is currently working on the topic of international relations in the rugby world during the first half of the twentieth century, and on the history of golf in South Africa and in the eastern Free State specifically. Further, he is also involved in the national Research Project on the History of Universities in South Africa as a member of the UFS`s research group.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6468-1613
Email: DeWetWJ@ufs.ac.za
Publications (Short List)
De Wet, W. “Tendense in populêre werke oor Suid-Afrikaanse rugby, 1948-1995: ’n Historiografiese studie”, Historia 61(1), May 2016, pp. 113-131.
De Wet, W. “Koos Kombuis: Ikonoklas na Ikoon”, Historia 64(2), November 2019, pp. 156-177.
De Wet, W. “A history of the South African Rugby Football Board (SARFB): Early years, 1889-1914”, Sport in History 41(3), 2021, pp. 360-386.
De Wet, W. "The Second World War, the ‘Rugby Split’, and the Afrikanerization of White Rugby in South Africa, c.1940–1956", The International Journal of the History of Sport? 39(10), 2022, pp. 1114-1134.