The Moment: How Sports Changed the World | movie | 2023 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

The story of Nelson Mandela and the South African Rugby team uniting to win the 1995 Rugby World Cup. This monumental mo | dG1feGFVVlBIZ09KSzg

Transcript

00:00 (upbeat music)

00:03 - Rugby was always the Afrikaner's sport,

00:06 divisive, a symbol of apartheid.

00:09 But to Mandela, the Rugby World Cup final in Joburg

00:13 was an opportunity.

00:14 - Our prayers should be for the springboards

00:21 because we are a new nation.

00:24 - Madiba understood that you had to find symbols

00:28 that would unite people.

00:31 - It was a huge gamble.

00:32 - The game which was the sporting embodiment of apartheid

00:38 is now being marketed as a positive force for unity

00:42 in this newly democratic nation.

00:44 - Nelson Mandela's political philosophy

00:49 had always been a South Africa

00:51 which embraced all its people.

00:53 This was the moment that could symbolize

00:57 South Africans coming together.

00:58 - Siakolisi would not have happened

01:02 if the seeds of inclusivity and transformation

01:06 were not sown, courageously sown, despite all odds.

01:10 - By Madiba, Nelson Mandela.

01:12 - Sport can create hope

01:26 where once there was only despair.

01:29 (dramatic music)

01:31 [MUSIC PLAYING]

01:35 [BLANK_AUDIO]