Hello Friends

If you enjoy going to the movies, there's a new flick not to be missed. Invictus, directed by Clint Eastwood, takes a look at Nelson Mandela's life as he campaigned for the 1995 Rugby World Cup in an effort to unite all South Africans after the fall of apartheid.

The movie's name comes from a poem written by William Ernest Henley and was a source of inspiration for Mr Mandela during his prison years. Here it is ...

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

Awesome man, awesome movie!

Anne