LOL, what would have happened if the ANC just rolled over and gave up fighting for liberation? The American government was never going to put pressure on the apartheid government.
Are you just hurt that the white minority government handed power over? Is that all this is about?
Sheesh.
The British government was already putting pressure on South Africa. Once the light at the end of the tunnel was seen that the end of the Cold War was near, PM Marget Thatcher played a significant role on influencing South Africa's President de Klerk. Apartheid ended when Mandela was still sitting in prison.
What I have noticed in the past five days not one liberal/progressive has even mentioned President Frederik de Klerk , only non libs. Why is that ? Who actually ended apartheid in South Africa ? It seems that the left in the name of revisionism also whitewashed the past of President de Klerk.
<" F.W. de Klerk, in full Frederik Willem de Klerk (born March 18, 1936), politician who as president of South Africa (1989–94) brought the apartheid system of racial segregation to an end and negotiated a transition to majority rule in his country. He and Nelson Mandela jointly received the 1993 Nobel Prize for Peace for their collaboration in efforts to establish nonracial democracy in South Africa...
As president, de Klerk committed himself to speeding up the reform process begun by his predecessor and to initiating talks about a new postapartheid constitution with representatives of what were then the country’s four designated racial groups (white, black, Coloured, and Asian [Indian]). Though faced with a strengthened right-wing opposition in Parliament (the Conservative Party), following his famous opening address to Parliament on Feb. 2, 1990, de Klerk quickly moved to release all important political prisoners, including Nelson Mandela, and to lift the ban on the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan-Africanist Congress of Azania. Thereafter, he frequently met with black leaders, and in 1991 his government passed legislation that repealed racially discriminatory laws affecting residence, education, public amenities, and health care in South Africa. In 1992 he called a referendum in which almost 69 percent of the country’s white voters endorsed his reform policies. That same year de Klerk undertook serious negotiations with Mandela and other black leaders over a proposed new constitution that would enfranchise the black majority and lead to all-race national elections. In the meantime, his government continued to systematically dismantle the legislative basis for the apartheid system.
Under de Klerk’s leadership, the governing National Party reached agreement with the ANC in the summer of 1993 on a transition to majority rule. De Klerk led his party’s campaign in South Africa’s first all-race elections in April 1994, in which the ANC obtained a majority of seats in the new National Assembly. De Klerk subsequently joined a government of national unity formed by Mandela, taking the post of second deputy president. He resigned as deputy president in 1996 and as head of the National Party in 1997, when he announced his retirement from politics. He established the F.W. de Klerk Foundation in 2000 and the Global Leadership Foundation in 2004..."<
F.W. de Klerk (president of South Africa) -- Encyclopedia Britannica
