Playing the enemy: Nelson Mandela and the game that made a nation. John Carlin. 2008.

The Rugby World Cup final of 1995 was the last act of the most improbable exercise in mass seduction ever seen: Nelson Mandela’s conquest of the hearts of white South Africa. When Mandela stepped onto the field at Ellis Park Stadium, in Johannesburg, wearing the Springbok captain’s jersey - a beloved icon to many of the white population and a detested symbol of racial oppression to blacks - he captured the hearts of white South Africans, transforming that which divided black and white South Africa into a force for good.