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Nelson Mandela, the legendary South African activist and politician who died Thursday at 95, stands as one of the 20th century's most notable figures for his efforts to end apartheid. And while he used a combination of methods to dismantle South Africa's system of institutionalized racism, sports ranked high on the list. Mandela realized the transformative and unifying power of sports, and used that power to make changes that protests and diplomacy could not.
Mandela was a driven athlete, an amateur boxer who ran two hours every morning as a young man. He kept himself in excellent shape during his 27 years in prison. But it was a sport to which he had little attachment which would change his life and cement his legacy.
The key moment in Mandela's sporting life curry 5 shoes sale , as John Carlin of Sports Illustrated noted, was the 1995 Rugby World Cup in Johannesburg, South Africa. Mandela had been sworn in as president of South Africa only the year before, the nation's first black president, and there were plenty of heavily armed whites who were none too pleased with the tides that had changed their entire existence. The possibility of rioting, or worse, loomed large over the match between South Africa and New Zealand. As Mandela would say later under armour curry 5 sale , it was the most nervous he'd ever been in his life, even more so than the morning in 1962 where a captured Mandela would be sentenced to either life in prison or death by hanging.
Mandela had threaded a needle in the dark. In 1992, South Africa had been awarded the Rugby World Cup, and Mandela allowed the competition to proceed, even though rugby was a decidedly white-leaning sport. The South African national team, the Springboks, had only one nonwhite player under armour micro g shoes sale , and blacks hated the team for many reasons, seeing their green jerseys as symbols of apartheid repression.
But Mandela convinced the nation to pull together as one and root for the Springboks, in part because of one astonishingly brave gesture: before a crowd of 65,000 that was almost completely white, Mandela strode onto the field wearing a Springboks jersey. The crowd, silent at first, began chanting ""Nelson! Nelson! Nelson!""
South Africa would go on to win the game under armour scorpio sale , and South Africans both black and white celebrated the victory. Mandela had not just passed a test, he'd rewritten it ... and in so doing, created a new, more hopeful future for his nation.
“Sport has the power to change the world,” Mandela said. “It has the power to inspire. It has the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than government in breaking down racial barriers.”
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CHICAGO, July 14 (Xinhua) -- Champaign County Crime Stoppers Friday announced to raise the reward for clues leading to whereabouts of missing Chinese scholar Yingying Zhang to 50,000 U.S. dollars at the request of Zhang's family.
Representatives of Champaing County Crime Stoppers under armour speedform gemini sale , a crime victim service in Champaign in the U.S. state of Illinois, and Zhang's family jointly made the statement at a news conference held in the auditorium of the Illinois Fire Service Institute, Champaign.
The reward money will come from community donations to an online fundraising effort.
With the 10,000 U.S. dollars already offered by FBI, the total reward will be 60,000 dollars.
Zhang's family hoped that new information could aid the ongoing investigation.
At the news conference, Zhang's family expressed their gratitude for the help and support they have got. "Yingying is our pride and joy. She is smart www.uashoesforsale.com , hard-working, brave and kind," Zhang's family said. "We continue to maintain hope that she has survived this ordeal until we find her."
Zhang's family said they would consider additional reward if anyone can bring Zhang back safely.
26-year-old Zhang, a visiting scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), was last seen entering a black Saturn Astra car driven by 28-year-old Brendt Christensen on June 9. Police arrested Christensen for kidnapping Zhang on June 30, but Zhang's location is still unknown.
The FBI believes Zhang is deceased, based on facts presented in court and court documents and other facts uncovered during the ongoing investigation.
Christensen was indicted on July 12 by a federal grand jury on a criminal charge related to Zhang's abduction. He remains in custody.
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WASHINGTON, June 20 (Xinhua) -- A website surfaced Saturday with a racist manifesto purportedly written by the white gunman Dylann Roof, explaining why he allegedly targeted Charleston, South Carolina, in Wednesday's massacre that killed nine African- American churchgoers.
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