Dud he realize that or did he just outright lie in order to get socialism imposed on the country?
He understood that the Afrikaners were the core of the infrastructure of So Africa and to drive then out, as a racist buffoon like Mugabe did to the whites in Rhodesia, would be fatal, forever condemning his country to 3rd world status. Mandela was a Zulu w/brains, and incidentally a very good Rugby player.