Tag Archive | "Nelson Mandela"

Invictus

Friday, November 13, 2009

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John Carlin In SA 7- 11 December to promote the big screen release of Invictus   This paperback edition of Invictus is a film tie-in version of John Carlin’s Playing the Enemy.  The film of Invictus, directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela and Matt Damon as Francois Pienaar, will be released nationwide on 11 December 2009. As [...]

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Invictus Movie

Monday, October 26, 2009

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Click on the below link to find out more about Invictus the movie adaptaptation of John Carlin’s bestselling book Playing the Enemy based on the 1995 Rugby World Cup and Nelson Mandela’s methodical, improbable and brilliant campaign to reconcile resentful blacks and fearful whites around a sporting event, a game of rugby. http://www.channel24.co.za/Content/Movies/Features/654/f37a403c6d034790b5bbfb8dae522f88/22-10-2009-06-36/First_look_Invictus_poster

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South Africas Brave New World – RW Johnson

Friday, February 6, 2009

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The universal jubilation that greeted Nelson Mandela’s inauguration as president of South Africa in 1994, and the process by which the nightmare of apartheid had been banished, is one of the most thrilling and hopeful stories of the modern era. R.W. Johnson’s major new book tells the story of South Africa from [...]

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John Carlin’s Playing The Enemy converted into a film

Friday, January 2, 2009

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Production has started on the film based on John Carlin’s bestselling book Playing The Enemy, directed by Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood with the starring roles played by Matt Damon as Francois Pienaar and Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela. The film is a Warner Bros. production to be filmed on location in South Africa. The South [...]

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Choice Not Fate – Life and Times of Trevor Manuel

Friday, October 17, 2008

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AVAILABLE IN BOOKSTORES AS FROM 21 NOVEMBER 2008 The biography of South Africa’s longest-serving Cabinet minister Trevor Manuel was a member of Nelson Mandela’s original Cabinet and became South Africa’s first black Minister of Finance in 1996, at a time when the economy threatened to spiral into a debt trap. Under his stewardship for more [...]

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