Springboks 1995 Art Print, He Wore Their Jersey, Ellis Park, Vintage Wall Art

He wore the jersey. The Springbok shirt was a symbol of apartheid. Black South Africans had spent decades supporting whoever was playing against it, and the African National Congress had wanted the emblem abolished.

Nelson Mandela, five years out of prison and one year into the presidency, argued to keep it, and then walked onto the pitch at Ellis Park wearing it, with Francois Pienaar's number six on his back, to hand over the World Cup.

Sixty-two thousand people, most of them white, chanted his name. It did not repair the country. It was one afternoon, and he spent his own credibility on it deliberately.

Stories worth passing on, not just remembering.