Playing the Enemy

I know I have already recommended watching the movie Invictus and if you have not heeded my recommendation, well, you're missing out!  Even better is the book "Playing the Enemy", which the movie is based on.  Ironically, I started reading the book on June 24 - the actual date of this famous rugby game in South African history.

"'What we saw that day was a revolution,' said [Archbishop] Tutu, joyous that he had lived to see his country give birth to a new model of revolution, one in which the enemy was not eliminated, he was brought into the fold; that instead of dividing a people, uniting them."

The outcome of the soccer World Cup currently in South Africa will not be the same as the rugby game played 15 years ago.  But even though the South African team has been eliminated from the competition, they (the country) are still winners as they continue to pursue peace despite all the things that could divide them.