Nelson Mandela is just not all that much of a saint. He was operating with a cunning and ruthless agenda, never intending to make any compromise with the Afrikaans who were the majority among the white minority that at one time was in charge of the country. He took a relatively prosperous and mostly law-abiding nation down into chaos and nearly to civil war. The majority of the violence in South Africa was not between whites and blacks, but between two competing bands of blacks, each determined to carry out genocide on each other. Only the complete capitulation of all the rest of the tribal groups, and promises of full sovereignty for Nelson Mandela's faction, averted the reality of what is happening right now in Rwanda and the Sudan.
South Africa does not have a popularly elected representative government, any more than Nazi Germany in 1933. Only the skin color is different.
Mbeki is much worse. Wonder why the UN doesn't monitor THOSE elections!
You're absolutely correct!