Invictus: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation

Invictus: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation
by John Carlin

Invictus: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation
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Author: John Carlin
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-11-18
ISBN: 0143117157
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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  • ISBN13: 9780143117155
  • Condition: New
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Book Review: A story which demanded to be told
Summary: 5 Stars

As I grew up in Britain I well remember the anti-apartheid demonstrations which routinely disrupted games against the Springboks in the 1960s, and how the game of Rugby was made to suffer at the hands of politics. There is thus a perfect and beautiful irony in the fact that President Mandela used that same game to unite the nation of South Africa in the Rugby World Cup 1995. Rugby had the last laugh and triumphed over politics, you might say. Interestingly in May 2010 just before it begins people are again asking whether the soccer World Cup will be able to unite the same nation in much the same way.

Anyway, this is a truly inspirational and of course true story told in a masterful way and in great detail of the power of sport (and one sport in particular) to bring people together and allow them to overcome their racial, religious, political and other differences. And all credit to Nelson Mandela for learning Afrikaans while in prison on Robben island and thus crossing the barrier between the races which lesser men could never have surmounted.

Ian Ruxton, translator of ULTIMATE CRUSH: Waseda University Rugby, Leadership and Building the Strongest Winning Team in Japan

Summary of Invictus: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation

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.

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