I set up a foundation and the reason I did that was because of him and because of my other mentor Kitch Christie, who was our coach in the World Cup. He wanted to know a lot about me.

© Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP/Getty Images "There were so many high-powered people waiting outside to see him and every time Mary (Mxadana, Mandela's assistant) would come in to hurry him up he would say to her: "Mary, I'm speaking to my captain.

He took her hand and said "would you feel offended if I come to your wedding Nerine? I sat outside his office at the union buildings and I could hear his booming voice, and as he walked towards me what struck me was his size - as an athlete and a boxer he's a big man [although by] then he was in his mid-seventies.
South African president Nelson Mandela congratulates Springbok captain Francois Pienaar after South Africa beat the All Blacks by 15-12 to win the 1995 Rugby World Cup. We'd played New Zealand on a number of occasions, our trend was up and it was a real opportunity to do something special - so immediately after he'd left I had to calm the team down. and I said we will celebrate his legacy.

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (/ m æ n ˈ d ɛ l ə /; Xhosa: [xolíɬaɬa mandɛ̂ːla]; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. there was a Springbok on his heart and if you know our history, rugby was for the white people in South Africa, predominantly the Afrikaners, and became a symbol of hate for the black people - which you can understand.We love our sport and I'm a proud Afrikaner. We laughed. Nelson! Francois Pienaar, even 25 years on, conveys a sense of disbelief and awe when he talks of that crisp Highveld winter's day that the Springboks won the Rugby World Cup for the first time. England's Tom Curry in action. I am truly the luckiest sportsman alive by a long way; to be so privileged at that time to be the captain, to share the platform with him, to be influenced by him and to get to know him so well," Pienaar said.Pienaar was dropped from the Springbok side in 1996 and when he announced he would be leaving to join Saracens in London, Mandela summoned him to lunch and left him with a final request. "I am probably the luckiest sports person ever because of the unique relationship (with Mandela)," he says of a man who became a father figure to him.Their close bond, a young white Afrikaner and the famous black prisoner of Robben Island, grew out of Pienaar's captaincy of the Springboks and Mandela's visionary and altruistic support of a team who played in a jersey many of his followers despised. You're tossing and turning - it is the biggest thing that's ever going to happen in your life. That's when you formed an opinion.When he became president and I got the call to go and see him, you can imagine how nervous I was. He was the country's first black head of state and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election. South Africa's Cheslin Kolbe celebrates scoring their second try. "Francois you promise me you will come back one day and you'll make a difference. "The president invited me to visit him in his office at the Union Buildings in Pretoria. South Africa's Mbongeni Mbonambi receives medical attention. The first thing he said to me was in Afrikaans, and most of our conversation was in Afrikaans. Mandela famously used the tournament to reach out to South Africa’s whites through their cherished sport. "I know it sounds bizarre. He was appointed Springbok captain from his first test and remained captain until his last, and remains one of the most successful South African captains of all time. And we were in the changing room, still going through these thought processes, when there was a loud knock at the door and in walked Mr Mandela. "We were having a celebration at the Union Buildings and I said I wanted to introduce him to my fiancee Nerine.
Francois Pienaar, even 25 years on, conveys a sense of disbelief and awe when he talks of that crisp Highveld winter's day that the Springboks won …

We talked about all things –- not just the World Cup. "We were having a celebration at the Union Buildings and I said I wanted to introduce him to my fiancee Nerine.

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