Awards

• Short-listed for William Hill Irish Sports Book of the Year 2008
• Shortlisted for William Hill Irish Sports Book of the Year 2008.

Overview

24 June 1995. Ellis Park in Johannesburg. The Springboks versus The All Blacks in the Rugby World Cup final. Nelson Mandela steps onto the pitch wearing a Springboks shirt and, before a global audience of millions, a new country is born. This book tells the incredible story of Mandela's journey to that moment. As the day of the final of the 1995 Rugby World Cup dawned, and the Springboks faced the All Blacks, more was at stake than a sporting trophy. When Nelson Mandela appeared wearing a Springboks jersey and led the all-white Afrikaner-dominated team in singing South Africa's new national anthem, he conquered white South Africa. Playing the Enemy tells the extraordinary human story of how that moment became possible. It shows how a sport, once the preserve of South Africa's Afrikaans-speaking minority, came to unify the new rainbow nation, and tells of how - just occasionally - something as simple as a game really can help people to rise above themselves and see beyond their differences.

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9781407434919

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Had I a dozen grandchildren... I'd order two dozen copies, one for the children, the other for their parents. Evening Standard Gombrich opens with the most magical definition of history I have ever read. Guardian I doubt if it could be bettered. Literary Review

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