Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Playing the Enemy Carlin pens this thrilling, inspiring account of one of the greatest charm offensives in history--Nelson Mandela's decade-long campaign to unite his country, beginning in his jail cell and ending with a rugby tournament.
Full description- Publisher: Penguin USA
- Published: 28 July 2009
- Format: Paperback 274 pages
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- Categories: African History | Sport | Rugby Union
- ISBN 13: 9780143115724 ISBN 10: 0143115723
- Sales rank: 120,315
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Full description for Playing the Enemy
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.
