Posted on 12/11/2009 7:59:20 AM PST by envisio
No world leader has ever surpassed the accomplishments of former South African President Nelson Mandela.
So says actor Matt Damon, who plays rugby team captain Francois Pienaar in Clint Eastwood's Nelson Mandela film, "Invictus," which opens nationwide Friday.
“Mandela convinced everybody to not go to war. That involves a lot of personal responsibility," Damon told Tarts at last week’s Los Angeles premiere. "South Africa had the greatest political leader in the world in our lifetime. Period.”
The film covers the months in 1995 after Nelson Mandela was elected president of South Africa after decades of white apartheid rule, a time during which the country was close to devolving into civil war.
Damon says that Mandela couldn't save his country alone, though.
“There was responsibility taken by the citizens as well, that’s a lesson for the rest of the world about how to handle conflict.”
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It was in reading about Mandela that I learned all about “necklacing”: Tie a person in a chair so they are immobile. Fill an old tire with gasoline and put it over their head. Toss in a lit match.
Nice guy, that Nelson fellow.
It is the Shona’s from Zimbabwe. The locals are intolerant because they work for a lower wage and don’t unionize, so they get employed before the locals do.
Normally there is no chair involved. The victim’s hands are tied behind his back using chickenwire, and then the tire is filled with diesel and lit. Diesel is stickier, so it sticks to the victim’s skin better, and burns longer.
Yes, that's who it was. Thanks.
Why do people support Hollywood? The dollars that are spent for entertainment are many times directly used to work against the very things we stand for.
Fixed it. Without Reagan, Nelson would still be sitting in a prison cell.
Or they should had split the country up, one for the Afrikaners, one for the English, one for the Zulu, one for the Coloreds.
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