“Nelson Mandela “could have” started an “ethic purge” of South African whites that would have made Hilter, Mao and Stalin green with envy.
Mandel chose the right path, and did not initiate genocide. “
He could have tried. He knew that if he tried that, yes, many white people would die, but millions and millions of blacks would die too. There was a reason the ANC could not overthrow the country by force, despite trying for 30 years. That did not change in the years following 1994. In the years right after apartheid, a strong core of white soldiers, trained in and hardened in the Angola border war and generals remained, and that had to be worked out of the system before he could entertain thoughts like that. It took about 10 years, by which time he was gone from power and MBeki was in charge.
He chose the right path, maybe because he was benevolent, but for sure because he could not win. In addition, he had just won the political battle, and had the goodwill of the world. Why would he squander that?
Right on.
Too many fools spreading the Communist version of South Africa and Rhodesia while remaining blissfully ignorant of the Communist crimes during the same time period. No, apartheid was not “evil”, any more than what is happening now in those countries, any more than what was happening in Albania, Poland (martial law), Romania (practically martial law) and other lands of the Soviet Bloc, while the Soviets with the help of their agents and useful idiots conducted their propaganda war against South Africa and Rhodesia in the West.
It’s disheartening that so many Conservatives accept without questioning the Soviet version of history.