"Playing the Enemy - Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation" by John Carlin

"Playing the Enemy - Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation" by John Carlin

Post by Dave U. Rando » Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:12:20


"...Mandelas methodical, improbable and brilliant campaign
to reconcile resentful blacks and fearful whites around a
sporting event, a game of rugby..."

NY Times book review: http://easyurl.net/95e06

Amazon page: http://atu.ca/PlayingTheEnemy

 
 
 

"Playing the Enemy - Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation" by John Carlin

Post by Skokki » Sun, 24 Aug 2008 04:42:30


Quote:

> "...Mandelas methodical, improbable and brilliant campaign
> to reconcile resentful blacks and fearful whites around a
> sporting event, a game of rugby..."

> NY Times book review:http://easyurl.net/95e06

> Amazon page:http://atu.ca/PlayingTheEnemy

Ja ou swaer

And they are rolling the old guy out again in time for elections - to
try and add some lustre to the jaded ANC. I get the feeling that the
old boy does not want to play anymore, not because of his age, but
because he does nt approve of what is going on.

In the 2014 elections they will probably dig the old guy out of his
grave and roll him round in a glass case.

 
 
 

"Playing the Enemy - Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation" by John Carlin

Post by Peter H.M. Brook » Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:41:18


Quote:

> And they are rolling the old guy out again in time for elections - to
> try and add some lustre to the jaded ANC. I get the feeling that the
> old boy does not want to play anymore, not because of his age, but
> because he does nt approve of what is going on.

> In the 2014 elections they will probably dig the old guy out of his
> grave and roll him round in a glass case.

Is pickling back in favour in pinko circles? I thought they were
thinking of alarming the worms by putting Lenin's mummy into their
midst (some people have all the luck, most of us have to do with just
the one mummy).

I think that autoicons are rather amusing. I have a skull, that I'm
fond of, but I wouldn't mind having one of those shrunken heads - not
made to order, you understand, but already commissioned and executed
[in both the artistic and sanguinary senses] by somebody else. Jeremy
Bentham thought it so much more sensible than having statues of people
which, perforce, are pale imitations [literally if made in marble] of
the person himself. If Jeremy's own autoicon [in the ba***t of
King's College London, I believe] is anything to go by he had a rather
jaundiced view of how people looked when alive if he thought their
corpses good representations of them.

 
 
 

"Playing the Enemy - Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation" by John Carlin

Post by Verwoer » Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:39:25


Quote:


> > "...Mandelas methodical, improbable and brilliant campaign
> > to reconcile resentful blacks and fearful whites around a
> > sporting event, a game of rugby..."

> > NY Times book review:http://easyurl.net/95e06

> > Amazon page:http://atu.ca/PlayingTheEnemy

> Ja ou swaer

> And they are rolling the old guy out again in time for elections - to
> try and add some lustre to the jaded ANC. I get the feeling that the
> old boy does not want to play anymore, not because of his age, but
> because he does nt approve of what is going on.

> In the 2014 elections they will probably dig the old guy out of his
> grave and roll him round in a glass case.

I'm glad my parents had the good sense to get out 20 years ago to the
day.  Now deceased I knew they did right by me and my siblings having
all 6 of us in the US.  When mamma and vada as how we referred to them
as were robbed at gun point outside of Capetown somewhere if I recall
correctly, it was time to leave.  I still have numerous amounts of
family in South Africa and haven't been back in 15 years.  I still
love the land and stay in touch with family but since I was not raised
their my longing for it isn't quite what other's go through I would
imagine.  It is a huge mess due to the amount of crime going on.  I
think Nelson Mandela is too old to make any impact now but I honestly
think when he got out of prison things were good in the beginning.
But I'm an American and for me and my family it's the best environment
in the world including even Australia where my older brother lives now
and loves it.  Since I've never lived in South Africa the only
judgments I can make is what I hear or what I read so I realize at
times my opinions aren't fair even if they are true.