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I'm well aware of the history of South Africa and the wider region in the context of the Cold War. I'm not sure what point you are trying to get across. Once again there is a massive distinction between the decision (for which I will pass no retrospective censure) to prioritize fighting regional Communist powers over ending Apartheid in South Africa; and castigating Mandela and his affiliates for trying to topple what was in effect a fascistic, racist, dictatorship.
The ANC was allied with the Soviet Union, they were on the communist side of the Cold War.
Now years later during the 1990's after the Cold War and after apartheid, Nelson Mandela supposedly said, we weren't really communist, we were just using the Soviet Union.
May be Mandela and the ANC should have made that clear during the Cold War ? I think it would have made a big diffrence.