[Rockingham]

Every sensible observer recognized that South Africa would mostly become a dystopian nightmare of race hate, socialism, corruption, and crime. In the early 1980s, I heard the late economist Walt Williams predict as much after spending a year doing research in the country under apartheid. He dismissed Mandela as a feel good figurehead for the communists who ran the ANC and would all too soon run the country.

The point of putting Mandela into power was to give the white South African elite time to get wealth out, arrange new citizenship, and bunker down in areas they could control and manage efficiently, like the Western Cape and Cape Town.

[dfwgator]

Chief Buthelezi would have been a much better leader for Post-Apartheid South Africa.

[Phoenix8]

For some reason I was in a desert of mostly pro-Mandela. Here in otherwise red state Indiana.

I blame it on the media.