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Lilian Thuram; Charles Forsdic; Aedín Ní Loingsigh
My Black Stars, 05/2021Book Chapter
I met Nelson Mandela in 1999, in Johannesburg, when I travelled there for a friendly match organized after our World Cup victory. I remember that at the hotel we were staying in some people couldn’t believe we were the French team, simply because a large majority of us were black. We have to remember that the South African people had experienced colonization since 1838, the year the Zulu emperor Dingane was defeated at Blood River by the Boers; then, from the beginning of the twentieth century until 1993, they experienced segregation and apartheid, a policy of separate development for populations
