All of the South Africans, that were black, at the beginning of the movie were cheering for the opposite teams that played the Springboks. But then once the Springboks started doing clinics in townships for the black people and that was very public and then the blacks started cheering for the Springboks.
Francois Pienaar. Francois’s whole family didn’t like Nelson Mandela at all and then Francois, when he went to Nelson Mandela’s office and had tea with Francois and his family didn’t really approve of him going there but he went anyway. Also when they went to the island where Nelson Mandela was in prison it clicked for Francois what all Nelson Mandela had to go through for 27 years.