In 1995, just as South Africa was recovering from its Apartheid era, it hosted the Rugby World Cup. Having been excluded from the first two Rugby World Cups, the South African team went on to win the World Cup that year because President Nelson Mandela made the team believe that their victory would play a huge role in uniting a country long divided due to racial discrimination and a deep-seated mistrust of one another. This historic victory has been beautifully retold in the film Invictus. When you play for such a grand purpose, small setbacks don’t matter and you are able to summon an
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