Playing The Enemy: Nelson Mandela And The Game That Made A Nation

by John Carlin

2020-11-24 08:56:58

The inspiration for the film INVICTUS, starring Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman. Beginning in a jail cell and ending in a rugby tournament- the true story of how the most inspiring charm offensive in history brought South Africa together. After be... Read more
The inspiration for the film INVICTUS, starring Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman. 

Beginning in a jail cell and ending in a rugby tournament- the true story of how the most inspiring charm offensive in history brought South Africa together. After being released from prison and winning South Africa''s first free election, Nelson Mandela presided over a country still deeply divided by fifty years of apartheid. His plan was ambitious if not far-fetched: use the national rugby team, the Springboks-long an embodiment of white-supremacist rule-to embody and engage a new South Africa as they prepared to host the 1995 World Cup. The string of wins that followed not only defied the odds, but capped Mandela''s miraculous effort to bring South Africans together again in a hard-won, enduring bond. Less

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File size8.41 X 5.56 X 0.8 in
Print pages304
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
Publication date July 28, 2009
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780143115724
Author
John Carlin is senior international writer for El País, the world’sleading Spanish language newspaper, and was previously the U.S.bureau chief for The Independent on Sunday. His writing h...

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