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  2. Invictus - Wikipedia

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    Nelson Mandela is depicted in Invictus (2009) presenting a copy of the poem to Francois Pienaar, captain of the national South African rugby team, for inspiration during the Rugby World Cup—though at the actual event he gave Pienaar a text of "The Man in the Arena" passage from Theodore Roosevelt's Citizenship in a Republic speech delivered ...

  3. Long Walk to Freedom - Wikipedia

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    However, Mandela was shortly thereafter sentenced to life imprisonment for sabotage in what was known as the "Rivonia Trial", by Justice Dr Quartus de Wet, instead of a possible death sentence. (p. 159) Nelson Mandela's prison cell on Robben Island. Mandela describes prison time on Robben Island and Pollsmoor Prison.

  4. Breyten Breytenbach - Wikipedia

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    Breyten Breytenbach (Afrikaans pronunciation: [ˈbrɛitən ˈbrɛɪtənbaχ]; 16 September 1939 – 24 November 2024) was a South African writer, poet, and painter.He became internationally well-known as a dissident poet and vocal critic of South Africa under apartheid, and as a political prisoner of the National Party–led South African Government.

  5. Dennis Brutus - Wikipedia

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    Brutus was forbidden to teach, write and publish in South Africa. His first collection of poetry, Sirens, Knuckles and Boots (1963), was published in Nigeria while he was in prison. The book received the Mbari Poetry Prize, awarded to a black poet of distinction, but Brutus turned it down on the grounds of its racial exclusivity.

  6. NYC schools chief whose home was raided by feds recites ...

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    The city’s embattled schools chief had the audience at his annual address Tuesday oddly read a poem with him that Nelson Mandela “recited everyday while locked up”— after delivering a ...

  7. William Ernest Henley - Wikipedia

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    Nelson Mandela recited the poem "Invictus" to other prisoners incarcerated alongside him at Robben Island, some believe because it expressed in its message of self-mastery Mandela's own Victorian ethic. [37] [38] This historical event was captured in fictional form in the Clint Eastwood film Invictus (2009), wherein the poem is referenced ...

  8. Trump claims he’s a ‘modern-day Mandela’ and prepared to go ...

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    Mr Mandela spent 27 years in jail for standing up to South Africa’s apartheid system. He was later released and went on to become the first Black president of South Africa after a fully ...

  9. The Mandela effect: 10 examples that explain what it is and ...

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    The term was coined in 2009 by paranormal researcher Fiona Broome, who wrongly recalled that former President of South Africa Nelson Mandela died in prison in the 1980s, Bainbridge notes. Broome ...