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On May 10, 1994, Nelson Mandela skipped his own inauguration parties. Instead, he sat among a largely Black crowd at Ellis Park, watching South Africa play Zambia in football. “I wanted our people to know how much I appreciated the sacrifices made by our athletes during the boycott,” he said. A year later, at the same stadium, he walked onto a rugby pitch wearing a Springbok jersey — an apartheid-era symbol — and handed the World Cup to a stunned Francois Pienaar.
It was a gesture loaded with grace, timing, and vision. Mandela knew: In a country broken by race
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