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No. 4 Know your enemy - and learn about his favorite sport As far back as the 1960s, Mandela began studying Afrikaans, the language of the white South Africans who created apartheid. His comrades in the ANC teased him about it, but he wanted to understand the Afrikaner's worldview; he...
This was strategic in two senses: by speaking his opponents' language, he might understand their strengths and weaknesses and formulate tactics accordingly. But he would also be ingratiating himself with his enemy. Everyone from ordinary jailers to P.W. Botha was impressed by Mandela's willingness to speak Afrikaans and his...
Many of the bigger houses are now museums where you can study the Karoo's harsh history: the Great Trek, when the Boers left Cape Town for the interior in 1835-40; wars between Europeans and Africans, particularly Zulus; wars among Europeans (the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902); the...
Players, Choose Your Pitch As a white South African, I was disturbed by Vivienne Walt's "Field of Broken Dreams" [Sept. 24]. There are people who will never be satisfied despite massive reform within our country. I am sure I speak for most white South Africans when I say we...
That is a deeply uncomfortable legacy for South Africa, whose white population treats rugby with the reverence that Brazilians reserve for soccer. For years, the national rugby system was tightly interwoven with the institutions of apartheid; its players and administrators were nurtured in the same educational establishments from which the...