I used to love the Claremont Review of Books - until they ran “Could South Africa Have Turned Out Differently?”, a foreign variation on the ever-popular in conservative circles “What if They Just Listened to MLK, What About the Dream?” .
Read page after page of how great Mandela was (just like MLK!), how if only he lived forever the lights would still turn on, etc, etc. Could it have turned out differently?
Uh, no.
SA would have been better off with Chief Buthelezi.