Comments on: “INVICTUS”: THAT’S NOT RUGBY

By: Jan Kassell

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By: Sean Jacobs

Sean Jacobs — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 16:17:24 +0000

@Notareal: You’re being silly right?

By: Leonidas

Leonidas — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 23:20:20 +0000

a) Mr Mandela was by his own admission a terrorist, and was responsible for the deaths of innocent women and children – irrespective of the political background of the country and the viewpoints of individuals.
b) “the team stayed overwhelmingly white after that” – this is racism at its finest. Why should the racial makeup of a sports team be a problem for someone who supposedly isn’t prejudiced?

By: Yeta

Yeta — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:10:42 +0000

I have not watched the movie. I thought it would be best to do so after the hype has died down. I don’t have much to say except that I am sick of Americans playing South Africans. The thought of it just weakens me. Dearest Sarah, I was born in Zim, bred in Botswana and have spent most of my adult life in SA. In all honesty, the truth of the matter is that this is a typical Hollywood feel-good movie. Just because other people didn’t feel good watching it is no reason to call them pessimists. And I can also honestly say that unless the South African opposition parties get more support to ensure that the ANC government does not get out of hand, SA will end up being another Zim. I have been saying it for years because the rhetoric of late from the ANC mirrors that of ZANU-PF. Everyone thought nothing would come of it and then, WE ALL GOT WALLOPED, BLACKS INCLUDED!

I have seen a farm invasion with my own eyes. I had family members threatened and beaten to the point of death by those so called war veterans. Whatever political party you support, including the ANC, please do not let a couple of bozos destory this beautiful country, because despite everything, we all know that SA is beautiful.

By: sarah

sarah — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:22:55 +0000

Amen to you Kevin. I’m also sick of bitter ex-patriots imposing their grievances on others. Why hold on to past grudges? Mandela didn’t. And as the poem says- “I am the master of my fate, the captain of my soul.”

By: sarah

sarah — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:15:44 +0000

To all you pessimists!! I am a zimbabwean national born and bred and have been educated in the ‘new south africa’. I was totally inspired by this movie and walking out of the theatre to see ‘the rainbow national’ all around me after the country has suffered so much strive is what this movie stands testament to. South Africa (and VERY MANY countries inc. 1st world ones) need more positvity and belief. NOT pessimism!! I think this movie is fantastic and offers inspiration to people. Why poo-hoo something like that? To what end?!

By: Jacques

Jacques — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 08:06:54 +0000

I agree entirely, Sean. My thoughts after watching it: http://synapses.co.za/eastwood-oprah/

By: Ziggy

Ziggy — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:06:09 +0000

Ekapa watched the movie a while back? Before it was made possibly? What a fake lot of nonsense.

By: Muscles

Muscles — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:31:40 +0000

An interesting take from the author and Po. I agree with Kevin and believe it helped unite the nation. I recall other clips I have seen with James Small crying. I think the support Mandela gave the Springboks has gone a long way to unifying the country. There are still those that will go to Newlands in their NZ jerseys and refuse to support the rasict Springboks, but I think they are getting fewer and fewer just like those that take the old SA flag to games. Unity didnt happen overnight and I am not sure the movie is trying to paint the picture that SA is rosy, merely how the world cup helped break down some barriers.

By: kevin

kevin — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:25:06 +0000

I was 15 years old at the time of the Rugby world cup, I’m a born and bred South African i can say that the importance of the rugby world cup final can never be overstimated.

Nelson Mandela and the springboks accomplished in one rugby final more than years of politicing could achieve- they united a fractured people in a wave of patriotism. I was there it was tangible and it was real, perhaps it didn’t linger as long as people had hoped but for a country which only a few years back was on the brink of civil war it was an accomplishment never seen before or since.

I think it’s great that Clint Eastwood has made this film It is not feel-good American films about South Africa that make me nauseous ( there are so few of those) but bitter ex-patriot South Africans who continue to polarise the country by writing on their blogs how terrible the country is and how it will never be unified (those we have in abundance)