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Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation
Carlin, John. Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation. New York: Penguin, 2008.
Why this matters here
Carlin narrates Mandela's public embrace of the Springboks and the 1995 Rugby World Cup final as a deliberate reconciliation gesture. When Others Become Leaders asks what preserving that emblem made possible: keeping a hated symbol can be leadership when others must become able to belong inside a changed country.
