L EAD WITH P URPOSE Mandela was a leader who believed in the innate goodness of peo- ple. Early in his presidency he used the opportunity of the staging of the 1995 Rugby World Cup in Johannesburg as an attempt to bring peace. Rugby was a game favored by whites, not blacks, but Mandela worked to bring the races together harmoniously by uniting them toward a single goal: winning the World Cup for South Africa. This story is told in the book Playing the Enemy, by John Carlin. Mandela told Carlin that he wanted to use sport as a means of nation building. In his first meeting with Francois Pienaar, captain of the South African rugby team, Mandela expressed his idea that sports, particularly this rugby tournament, could be a means by which people could put aside past prejudice in order to forge a new national identity. A bold notion certainly, but as Carlin explains, Pienaar left this meeting with Mandela certain that he had the president's support as well as his 2