Depictions in Media
Pienaar and Mandela are the subject of a 2008 book by John Carlin, Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game that Made a Nation, that spotlights the role of the 1995 Cup win in post apartheid South Africa. Carlin sold the film rights to Morgan Freeman. The 2009 film, Invictus, is directed by Clint Eastwood, and stars Freeman as Nelson Mandela and Matt Damon as Pienaar.
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